Training mistakes that can be avoided
Sep 08, 2021
4 minutes
with Dot Schwarz
ISTAKES that handlers can make during training a parrot often stem from a belief that punishment is a suitable technique and works. Although it is lessening, this attitude has been part of the world we live in. “Spare the rod and spoil the child”: corporal punishment in schools was widely accepted in my schooldays. Another axiom on the same lines runs: “With your dog, show him who is boss.” Rough treatment of a puppy will result in a timid, apathetic animal or the opposite – an aggressive dog. You can shout at a child or a puppy and they may well obey. But a parrot doesn’t react like
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