Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion (Pets) - Softcover

Doane, Bonnie Munro

 
9780764563270: Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion (Pets)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0764563270 ISBN 13: 9780764563270
Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 2001

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In paperback at last — the definitive guide to parrot training.

Originally published as The Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training, this amply illustrated book is just what parrot owners need to bring up happy, well-behaved pets. You get:

  • Hands-on advice from one of the nation's foremost parrot authorities
  • A thorough explanation of ""normal"" parrot behavior and the benefits of training
  • Coverage of everything from gentling fledglings and basic obedience to potty training, speech, and tricks""

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

BONNIE MUNRO DOANE, RN, BSN, MSN, has worked with parrots for nearly twenty years. As both pet owner and breeder, she has wide experience in the areas of parrot behavior and behavioral problems, parrot husbandry, nutrition, breeding and rearing of many species of parrot chicks. Ms. Doane has been a member of the Association of Avian Veterinarians since 1987.

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Making the Most of a Good Thing
Sharing your home and life with a pet bird from the parrot family can be a joy that must be experienced to be appreciated. Whether your parrot pal is a lordly macaw, a tiny budgie or any of the beautiful Amazons, African greys, cockatoos or other beloved species in between, life can be beautiful when communication works. And that is what Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion can do for the relationship. This definitive guide discusses:

  • The reasons for training a parrot
  • How an owner's behavior influences training results
  • Working with baby birds and weanlings
  • Three basic obedience skills
  • Training techniques for adult parrots
You will find chapters on potty training to help your parrot clean up its act, speech training to make your parrot more fun to be with, trick training and some valuable insights on fun and games with your parrot to enjoy your relationship fully.

With delightful illustrations by parrot lover Richard Cole and a wealth of practical guidance, Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion is the gift you give yourself and your parrot to make life better for you both.

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Verlag
Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0764563270
ISBN 13 
9780764563270
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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