I've read quite a few threads about how people have to chase their parrot around the room until the bird is tired enough to be caught. Usually they are attempting to catch the parrot to place the bird in a/the cage.

Having to chase the bird stems from two aspects of behavioural training. Yes - when you have to chase a bird it is being trained to run away from you.

Reason 1: The bird does not like what happens when you pick it up.

A parrot can easily...

Or is it because she's just moulting?"

Gari visited my classroom yesterday. She does this on occasion both to give my wife some relief during the day and to give me the opportunity to work with her in a large (2000 sq ft) space and to talk to young people about the trials and tribulations of pet ownership.

So yesterday Gari went to work with me. Before class started I gave my speech about how it was OK to hold her if she would let you but not OK to force the...

I've never been able to understand how keeping a bird in 'darkness' helps with unwanted sexual behaviour.

I've had a budgie, cockatiel, parrotlet and now a green cheek to enliven my life. I've never covered any of them when they "go to sleep" and I only noticed unwanted sexual behaviours in the budgie.

My budgie (or budgerigar if you prefer) was the first parrot I'd ever dealt with and, with my then "lack of knowledge," I went with the pet store...

OK - I was out camping again.

This time it was only the two dogs, my son and I... Gari stayed home with my wife.

Gari is fine with other people... usually... She is bonded with me and she doesn't attack my wife at all. My son is a different matter. He is an "invader" in the home. At 15...going on 16... he comes and goes at will. He is also not a "permanent" member of the household since he lives with his mom - that is; elsewhere - most of the...

Sierra, my neighbour's dog, jumps over the fence whenever I take my two goldens for a walk.

I'm the only one she jumps over the fence to go for a walk with. In my neighbourhood many people walk past Sierra's yard to go to the neighbourhood park. Sierra sits at the fence and watches (and sometimes barks) at the people going by. But she doesn't jump the fence.

When I take my two goldens for a walk, Sierra litterally leaps over the four foot high chain link fence. ...