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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR Biting Conure
Message-ID: <1612@intercon.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 22:02:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ooblick@intercon.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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If the bird bites you when he's on your hand, bringing your hand down
in a stunted karate chop motion (with the bird still on it) will teach
him that his biting causes an earthquake where he is quite unsafe.
Sounds silly, but it's a proven training technique.

Also, pretending (or maybe not pretending if he bites hard enough) to
whimper and show that he hurt you while putting him back in his cage and
covering it for 10 minutes can sometimes help.  Just be sure there is no
interaction at all between you and the bird for the full 10 minutes.
(but no more because the bird will just fall asleep)

Bird Book - Home Health and Care (or something like that) by a vet
from San Diego.  Green cover with a picture of a small parrot 
surrounded by fruit.  Great book!

Mikki Barry