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From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR Re: Behavioral Problems - Macaws
Message-ID: <161@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 90 20:51:00 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.174425.13520@cs.ucla.edu> <155@tivoli.UUCP> <7937@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
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In article <7937@adobe.UUCP> dkletter@adobe.UUCP (SUGAR in their vitamins?) writes:
>In article <155@tivoli.UUCP> lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) writes:
>>Yeah, I bet it _is_ quiet over at that trainer's concentration camp for 
>>birds.
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>i think even Lar's idea of putting the bird in it's own cage in a darkened
>room is FAR better than that box.

That wasn't my suggestion, but it isn't a bad one.  I've been provoked by 
my goldie's lory to the point of throwing a towel over the cage enough to 
dim the ambient light and "calm" him - but I feel guilty about raining on 
his parade when I do so.  Birds become comfortable and secure in their own 
cages, and may be happier there than in the open.  Moving the cage and all 
into a darkened room is a lot better than putting them into an unfamiliar 
box or cage. 

-lar