Potty Training Parrots? | Wiki Reviews 

Look at Mia doing tricks for your attention🥰 so cute!

When you have a new video, I will watch it no matter what. You have helped me a LOT

I've kind of done this and I am actually really proud of myself and my boy because of it. I can't remember where I got all the information for how to potty train my boy, but I remember I decided (purely from his health perspective) that I wouldn't get all Hitler on him about it. My main thing was I wanted to train him essentially where 'not' to poop, namely on me. So about a year ago I started looking into it, watching him intently and figuring out roughly how long between poops, that kind of thing. I figured out fairly early on that he associated pooping with getting a small treat (realised when he started flying to me intentionally to poop, and then not understanding when the treat didn't come). So I re-evaluated my technique. It's probably been about 6 months now of consistently encouraging this behaviour and now I would say we have about 80-90% success rate. I never get angry with him when he poops on me though, like Courtney said, it's a natural bodily function and I don't ever want him to feel like he doesn't want to go. My friends are really impressed when he flies off to his cage to poop, or even that I can tell when he's about to go. So many people in my life have no idea how owning a parrot of any kind is so much like having a child! 🤣

The one dislike is from wikiHow

You're awesome! Thank you for this important video. There is a lot of bad information online presented by people who purport to be experts, which can confuse viewers. Bad information can also be dangerous and in some cases life threatening to parrots, and/or abusive to parrots.Thank you for debunking the bad stuff and teaching viewers the right way to teach and care for parrots. On a side note: I was a little confused about the person's advice to put the paper plate INSIDE the cage. Did I miss something? I personally believe the cage should be a FREE poop zone and a place where the parrot can defecate naturally at any time. The purpose of potty training is to keep home and people clean while the bird is OUTSIDE the cage, which can be very helpful. "Specified poop zones", INSIDE the cage, (for example a paper plate) can potentially create a problem if a plate was forgotten or not presented on time. This can confuse the parrot and may make them hold their poop, causing serious health problems. Your message about letting the parrot choose when he/she goes and doesn't need to go, is extremely important. Thank you again.

I love your wiki reviews!! Waiting for part 3 😁🙏

thanks for the vid you already made 2 videos to my questions a lot of thank you

I generally speaking don't like Wikihow, I usually only use sources that are specifically orientated towards parrots I find the room for error is much less than using some site that is supposed to be covering a broad range of topics. I like your videos because I find them extremely thorough, I also like the Parrot Wizard, and Bird Tricks. I find their videos to be extremely helpful even though how they are both setted up is differently.

You have common sense! Thanks for a wonderful video.

can you make a video about moving while having birds? i'm about to move and of course, i have to take my budgie with me.

THANK YOU!!!

Can you make a tutorial on how you made that swinging branch the parrotlet is hanging from? Please. My cockatiels don't use the center of their flight cage (previous owner clipped their wings) and I want to get them hopping and moving around.

Is not possible to start with a primary reward and then move to a secondary reinforcer?

I love your videos, these reviews are hillarious, there is so much garbage put there on the internet. I have just one friendly correction to offer and only since you seem to follow the science as I do (I'm a certified science based dog trainer). Primary reinforces are things that an animal needs to survive. Primary reinforces are most often food but can be mating opportunities or water. Conditioned reinforces are things that we learn to find reinforcing such as how humans find money reinforcing. Thanks so much for sticking to the science and sharing your deep knowledge! 🦜🐦🐾

Love your birds

Nice video

Hello ,I love your videos and I have a little bit of a problem by parrot (kakariki) loves me and my family but doesn't like my sister he bites her a lot but we share a room so he sees her every day .

wow!! amazing and informative video! Love from INDIA!!

Have any of you heard of the Omlet bird cage? I was wondering what people’s thoughts on it are and if it would make a good cage for a parrotlet?

Finally: an episode all about poopie!

What name parrot

Hey what type of lovebird if it is one. I’m talking abt the one that was on your should at 0:35.

Hello! On the subject of potty training, would you recommend setting up and training potty for the different rooms the bird will be in? I plan to keep the cage upstairs where my art studio is and where there is more activity on the weekends, but I have my office set up downstairs in the finished basement. And I at least want them near, with a play cage that they will enjoy my company and be able to stay entertained, while I work in the same room.

thats wat i need

It so cute

I've recently gotten two lovebirds (about 10 weeks old) and they're still quite skittish and get pretty scared when I put my hand up near their cage. we've had them for about 3 weeks now and they're still quite afraid of us. any tips to help new birds settle in and be less scared of me?

Honestly I don’t mind if my birds poop on my things, including my laptop. They chew up my books too, but I just think it’s cute 😅

I potty trained my bird and I just praise her verbally when she does it correctly, but I never get mad at her if she doesn't go in the right place. Great advice :3

Mia 'Look! I'm a bat!' Treat? Newt 'Look! I'm an acrobat! Treat?

Has anyone ever had their bird INTENTIONALLY poop on them & any ideas on how to handle that one? My bird's been pooping on me quite a bit, I just put it down to being a lorikeet & they poop constantly, but she just did it on purpose, no question! She was biting me when I tried to put lettuce on the top of her cage, I said no & tried to stop her getting away with it, cause I'm fine if she wants to mark her territory INSIDE her cage, but not when out of it. Her response was to do a bottom wiggle & a HUGE poop aimed straight at me, completely covering me! I went & showered to get it off (cause there was that much), stuck my head back in to grab the plastic bag the lettuce had been in to remove the danger (while planning on ignoring her cause that's an effective tool for training with her I've found) but as soon as I stuck my head in, she bottom wiggled & tried to poop all over me again. So now I'm not impressed with the pooping, but also worried she'll hurt herself trying to poop when she really doesn't need to. So seriously, has anyone ever had to deal with this before & any ideas? She used to be largely self trained, while doing step up training, if she needed to poop, she'd step off first, then do it, then return to training, so she does know what she's doing with this stuff & she seriously tried to poop on me a second time, only a few minutes after the mega poop! Even if I could put the first one down to co-incidence, there's NO WAY the second one was! She did it on purpose! little ratbag lol

Is that necklace you are wearing is the key of your personal diary😅😅😅😅😅

Really random... But... Do you listen to girl in red?

Do you think a canary could be potty trained?

What happened to zeeby and Roxy? Did they die?😥

Not to be gross but why does my macaw seem like he's straining? Lol. His poop is normal looking but he just always seems like he's pushing it out. Edit: Also, my awesome bird always goes to stand on his door to poop. So often that I have newspaper on the floor. So smart. I guess he's kind of potty trained (I recently got him).

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How about this: don't potty train your bird 🤣

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