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A comment regarding "My parrot will not go into the new travel cage",
Mitch and Catherine, you touched on a great subject for a new blog entry shortly.
Change is not always readilly acceptable for many birds, whether it is a travel cage, play stand, or new cage. The bottom line here is that you do have the ability to teach your bird that the travel cage is fun.
First suggestion is to set the travel cage up next to your bird's cage. You may add a couple of favorite toys to the top of the travel cage as well as a small bowl of favorite food items. You are encouraging comfortable play on top of the travel cage. Once your bird will play there, you can move the cage around with the bird playing on top. This is all for acclimation.
Read my training articles on the blog here. Target train your bird and you can use targeting to get your bird to transfer freely to the travel cage as well.
As per earlier comments, in an emergency, your bird has to go where ever you want it to go period. That is for its safety. Last night, we had tordado sirens blasting. I had to buddy up birds, rapidly get birds into crates and get all 9 birds into safety. Choice was not an option. Stress was reduced because we have done this drill more than once and my birds have learned to travel with me daily.
Change is not always readilly acceptable for many birds, whether it is a travel cage, play stand, or new cage. The bottom line here is that you do have the ability to teach your bird that the travel cage is fun.
First suggestion is to set the travel cage up next to your bird's cage. You may add a couple of favorite toys to the top of the travel cage as well as a small bowl of favorite food items. You are encouraging comfortable play on top of the travel cage. Once your bird will play there, you can move the cage around with the bird playing on top. This is all for acclimation.
Read my training articles on the blog here. Target train your bird and you can use targeting to get your bird to transfer freely to the travel cage as well.
As per earlier comments, in an emergency, your bird has to go where ever you want it to go period. That is for its safety. Last night, we had tordado sirens blasting. I had to buddy up birds, rapidly get birds into crates and get all 9 birds into safety. Choice was not an option. Stress was reduced because we have done this drill more than once and my birds have learned to travel with me daily.
Posted by WindyCityParrot.com at Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:39 AM 
Categories: Guest Authors, Traveling Bird, Bird Training
Tags: Bird Training
Categories: Guest Authors, Traveling Bird, Bird Training
Tags: Bird Training
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