Hi ya readers,

     I’d like to tell you a little about what I call Human or Sapien driving. Its really quite easy if you watch your bird’s behavior and and feel it aswell. When you drive a car you tell it to move forward by stepping on the gas. You turn it by moving the steering wheel in the direction you want it to go. Well how can your parrot do the same with you? Have you ever been holding your bird and lets say it wanted to into the bathroom and as you were walking by it your bird leaned and looked in the direction of the place it wanted go. Have you ever thought about indulging your bird and moving in the direction he is leaning? I do this all the time with my Azaria and its wonderful! she will lean when she wants to move forward (or which ever way she wants to go) and stop leaning and stand straight when she wants to stop. If she leans back I move back because something disturbed her or we went to far. This is a great way to empower them and they actually are controling you! When doing this you can get most of the enrichments in visual, auditory, behavioral, and maybe even olfactory! I can see zoos doing this as well withh their birds.

A bird trainer in training ,

Peter