Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ls1i+ From: ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: More on Hookbills Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 88 19:41:37 GMT References: <8810121919.AA06668@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: <8810121919.AA06668@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu> > Did you get your cockatoo in PA then? It is illegal to buy/sell imported >birds in NY, and I'm so used to it I forget this doesn't necessarily >apply. I hope the parakeet and the cockatoo get along--the only thing >I've ever heard about mixing birds was that peach-faced lovebirds can >terrorize macaws. Do you suppose you could get jealousy problems? When >I talk to Tangier, Sepia gets jealous--even though neither bird is tame >(lovebirds are hard to tame unless you get them very young.) I've seen >the parakeets for sale, at more like $200, but they are hand-raised. >That is a bit more than I can justify, poor grad student that I am. Here's >a question though--how did you "toilet-train" your bird?! I did not >know that could be done! >I'm not posting to the news group because I've never seen notes having to >do with live-in birds before--all bird-watching. Rec.pets has occasional >postings on pet birds, but they have all been canaries and budgies, and >don't seem to attract much interest. Hope some more parrots turn up though- >they are so much fun to talk about! --Ruth Miller Stick training is just a slow, repetitive process. At first, Shiva would always fly to this one chair and plop. Every time he did that, I would yell at him and make him fly back to his perch. I would then congratulate him and tell him GOOOOOOOOOD BIRDIE (he loves that) and eventually he would fly to his perch every time he needed to defacate. Nothin' to it. How much did you pay for your Fischer's lovebirds? I thought they would be in the $100-200 range. The Grey-Cheeks are definitely worth the price since they are so damned affectionate, especially compared to lovebirds who just love each other. I am looking for some Peach-faced Lutino Lovebirds. I haven't been able to find any. Anyone seen some? Len Schultz