3 Tips to Help Train Your Pet Macaw 

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@@rugeramerican308 Pancake

Your comment made me laugh 😊

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I'm a working dog trainer and Ryan it is NOTHING like training a dog. The only similarities is the four quadrants of operant conditioning and with birds you literally only use positive reinforcement. Any decent bird trainer will tell you we never punish the bird. I have just purchased a hahns macaw (well more so rescue) he was kept in a garage for the first year of his life. His wings are obliterated (clipped off) so he cannot even fly. He hates hands for this reason (being grabbed and being clipped) and he's a biter. I've done conditioning in the clicker he's target training currently but I've only had him two weeks. None of the methods of dog training apply in terms of the other quadrants. We don't and can't punish the bird for undesirable behaviour. It's a test of patience and your ability. I'm one hell of a dog trainer. But this bird in particular has put me in my place. For reference I've got 2 love birds three budgies and have free flight trained them. My love birds fetch a rattan ball from anywhere in the house and bring it back to my hand. And dunk the ball in a mini basketball hoop they're wonderful. But this big guy is a task on his own.

Not sure what python you are talking about, (havent watched the whole video) but I can see that they are at Snake Discovery's place in this video so could be a short term thing.

@@claragreenfield6317e talking about a different video from a different birdtricks channel for kids, I don’t know if anyone is right or wrong, I know nothing about snake care. but I wanted to remind that this is their first snake, it seems like they’re being assisted by snake people that are pretty popular (idk if they’re assisted correctly or not ) so I bet they have a long way to learn as they’re gaining more experience and knowledge they’ll probably make some mistakes like anybody tend to do with exotic animals (lets hope not major ones) - I feel and hope like they might pay extra attention to learn doing snake stuff correctly, since they come from the parrot world they are pretty aware that people tend to unintentionally mistreat exotic pets and that they take a lot of extra care, intentional attention and study in order to have a decent wellbeing in human care. if I am understanding it correctly, they’re investing in a set up snake enrichment for their snake to hang out in while outside of her tank, so this might provide exercise and extra needed space for the snake to exercise and feel spacey and comfortable (and it might also not be enough, I don’t know about snakes). I want to tell you it is heartwarming that you care enough to inform about proper snake care, make sure to be kind and aware that exotic animals are not easy for well meaning humans to care for right a way, so it is important to be kind so people are actually receptive to new information.

@@claragreenfield6317 They're probably referring to the ball python they got for Capri. You can see the video where they get the python on birdtrickskids and they do keep that poor python in a terrible set up