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You know what... our GCC used to take baths in his bowl all the time. We cured it by cleaning out the sink and just placing a plate in the sink and filling that plate with water. Then we placed the GCC on the plate and stood there. Eventually the GCC started to take his bath in the shallow water. Don't ask me why, but he won't take a bath in anything than just cold water. Warm water and he's not interested.

Now after a couple of years, everytime we wash dishes (daily) he flies to our shoulders demanding a "plate bath". If we don't take him out of his cage during dish washing time and a couple days pass before he gets his "plate bath", then he'll still jump in his water dish. But, we try to keep up the daily or every other day bathing cycle with him in the sink to avoid that.

The nice part about a plate is that it leaves tons of room for flapping and the entire time their feet are in the water and they don't freak out thinking they're gonna drown. We actually trickle a small stream of water onto the plate as he baths. He flaps and goes wild in the water and we just sit there and watch. Once he's done he'll stand on the edge of the plate and await a helpful finger to get him out of the sink. When we get him out we put a towel on the back of the couch and set him atop that. He will typically rub his head and such to dry himself a bit quicker all over the towel.

Just a thought. It took about 4 or 5 tries to get him into the sink (different attempts), without him going nuts to try and get out, I think we even ran his head under the water stream a few times, before he finally tried to take the bath. All it took was once, and then he was hooked. It's good to get them trained young as once they start to get older it seems a bit more of a battle to train them.