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echo: parrots
to: KATHY JOHNSON
from: DAVID EMANUEL
date: 1995-07-10 10:48:00
subject: My Cockatiel

KJ> How do you respond when she bites someone? Does she seem to
KJ> bite people
KJ> just so she can get off of them and back to you quicker? Or
I'm kool aboouit it but, she does go running of onto the curtains(you can't 
get bird poo out of lace easily the lace tears)
KJ> just bite anyone who approaches her, even when she's not on YOU
KJ> at the
KJ> time?
She bites anyone that approaches her accept me unless I have her favorite toy 
or a treat in my hand but tat doesn't kount she just wants the toy then.
She's more prone t bite if she isn't on me at the time, i can't figure it 
out, unless she just doesn't feel safe when she isn;t on me.
KJ> What worked for me with my first Jenday conure was to pop the
KJ> bird into
KJ> a nearby carrier or cardboard box for about 5 minutes whenever
KJ> the bird
KJ> bit someone. Don't speak, don't do anything except take the
KJ> bird and put
Will do. I hadn't thjought of that. See what happens when you have to cancel 
your bird magazine subscriptions.
KJ> This method took our first conure about 2 weeks to figure out,
KJ> and she
KJ> hasn't bitten anybody (except during nesting and nail clipping,
KJ> which
KJ> don't count ) for 8 years.
What colour is the conure?
ANyway, nail clipping time doesn't kount. My bird likes the attention of 
getting to look at the mirror in the room I klip her nails in, but I have to 
keep a REAL firn\m grip on her or she'll fly rioght into it. (Not fun, th 
bird didn't go into shock so I was happy.)
Thanx for the help I'm sure I could go oout annd find a person to charge an 
arm and a leg for the same info.
RAvER
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