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[MsWiz]

Hi i’m very happy I found this for him and I am sure it will be a great help to me. Let me introduce my friend sunshine. I was told he was two years old a year ago by a vet so I’m assuming that makes him three. He came to me under not great circumstances his previous owner was arrested and he went through a shootout a trip in a cop car visit to the jail and eventually landed with me because I was a board member on a no kill animal shelter and they knew I had a birdcage that was my introduction to sunshine. We have been bumbling along for the past year and I think I’ve done a decent job taking care of him, but he is not quite as friendly as I would like so I will be reading everything and hoping to learn what I probably should’ve been working on a year ago.

 

[wrench13]

Welcome and be welcomed. The great thing about Amazons is they are the come back kids of the parrot world. Read all the stickies at the top of the Amazon sub forum, priceless info resides there! Read them 2x, once for you and once out loud for your bird. They love that. Parrots love reliability, repeatability and a schedule - remember that. Always keep your expectations subject to their ability. He is just now really settling in and opening up, so go slow.

 

[rheashard2]

Glad to have you here. #1 tip is you can never have to much patience. What ever amount you think you have at least quadruple it. As above. Talk to him. Give verbal praise often. It doesn't matter what. Everytime you pass say something. Read out loud anything you want. I have a CAG. She loves too listen to old time radio and audio books. She's kinda addicted to TV too. If I don't like the verbal content, volume off and audio book is on. I'm not sure if it is an Amazon thing. But more of them seem like music. Give that a thought. Be careful. My CAG is a talker. I ban a variety of things. So if she doesn't hear it, she can't learn it and she can't embarrass me in public! Birds learn and once learned it's rarely forgotten. Enjoy. Please post pictures.