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How To Potty Train Your Parrot
Today I wanted to share with you a short and sweet lesson
sent in from one of my clients where she describes how she
potty trained your parrot to ONLY poop in designated
areas...
Kind of like a cat who only poops in it's litter box.
Here's her story...
Our parrot would poop on the floor when we have breakfast
with her in the morning. Yes, she sits at the table with us.
So we paper trained her.
We use a white paper towel. We realized she poops about 20
minutes into breakfast time so we put a white paper towel on
the floor where she tends to poop. If she wandered from that
site we would move it to where she was when she looks like
she is about to poop. She goes to the edge of the table. We
quickly moved it to be under her and success. After she was
successful…we would applaud her success. Within a few days
she would go to where we placed the paper on the floor and
aim for the paper. We still continue to applaud her success.
Be sure to pick something you can always use. Since she is a
little messy when she eats at the table we usually have a
blue towel under her plate.
Well, one day my husband wanted to use a paper towel so he
could throw it away. Well, you guessed it…she would not go
near her dish placed in the middle of the white paper towel.
I quickly realized what he had done and changed it to the
blue towel. She immediately went to her dish. So be sure you
use something that can always be used as her poop target.
Esta Kronberg
> My Comments: First off, let me just give a BIG thank you
to Esta for sending in this story and GOOD job on what
you've accomplished.
Secondly I just want to point out something...
Esta mentioned that her bird would NOT poop on the *NEW*
towel when it was changed.
I hear this a LOT from customers and have even heard how
some birds can be so well trained they will injure
themselves holding their poop in because they're trained to
only go in one spot so well they simply refuse to poop
elsewhere.
So keep that little safety tip in mind.
Hope this helps you keep a cleaner home and do less laundry
;-)
Chet
P.S. I currently am giving away a free eBook bonus, "How To
Potty Train Your Parrot" to anyone who orders a copy of my
Taming Training & Tricks course.
So if potty training is something you'd REALLY like to get a
handle on then you can learn more about that program here:
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