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Kim, the training from scratch sounds good, in fact Mark(BF) and I had discussed this previously. she shows signs when she begins to go into overload, but they are very subtle. its like I can look at her and tell that its time to give her a break or a bite is in the offing.

we figure its realistically going to take about a month for her to really settle in to this new environment, that right now shes operating in a sort of " protect myself-fear based" type behavior.

we will continue to talk to her, alot of times I even sit on the floor by her cage to talk to her and Sopfie comes down in her cage to watch me.

we will start stick training her in about a week. does that sound like a good idea, to wait for an interval to give her more time to settle in or should we begin now? I just worry about overwhelming her with all the changes she is facing now, then adding something else on top of it.

what about clicker training? I have done some training with my Macaw, but he prefers scratches to food and is easy. we also have a M2, she spoiled us as she is a very easygoing Too, nothing shakes her.

we'll give it our best. we're not giving up on Sopfie. Thanks Kim!