Why Parrots Hate To Be Touched

Have you ever noticed now matter how nice you are to your parrot, no matter how much yummy food you give him, or how sweet you talk to him, that he still doesn't seem to want you to pick him up or pet him?

Sure you have, we all have...

I can remember back when I used to think that if I just spent some more time with my birds, and talked nicely to them that somehow they'd magically start liking me, realize I wasn't so scary after all, and they'd turn into well behaved parrots for the rest of their lives.

How TRULY stupid I was to EVER think that would work!

Because parrots usually bite for one reason. They are afraid of something. They're either afraid of you, someone in your family, someone entering their territory or a hundred other things.

And when parrots are afraid, the only thing they can do is 'Fight or Flight'. And if you've clipped your parrots wings, he's probably going to think he has better chances of biting something he's afraid of then falling to the floor 'cuz his wings are clipped.

So when you (the scary thing) try to force your parrot to step up, by pushing down on his feet or up on his chest and trying to pry him off his perch, is that building trust with your parrot?

If every time you open your parrots cage he runs and hides in the back corner, is that a trust building experience for the bird?

What about if he lunges and attacks you when you change his food and water? Is that a calm situation that's helping him overcome his fear of you?

Or what if your parrot's out in your living room refusing to let anyone pick him up, and you throw a scary towel over him and toss him back in his cage? Did he snuggle up to the towel and enjoy being snuggled? Or did his little bird brain think a giant rug was going to suffocate him, and throw him back in that boring jail cell?

I don't know about you, but when people make me do things that scare me to death, and inflict pain and fear along every step of the way, I don't really trust them the next time they come around.

Like when I was learning to swim... my dad didn't drag me out into the middle of the river and toss my ass out the back of the boat.

He slowly talked me in from the shoreline one step at a time, telling me how proud he was of me every step of the way -- reinforcing my progress.

But don't miss my point... maybe if my Dad had tossed me out the back of the boat I would have been just fine. Maybe I would have overcome my fear of the water as I realized it wasn't as scary as I thought.

But let me ask you this...

How trusting would I be of my father next time I was at the back of that boat?

You see, parrot training isn't about teaching your parrot a lesson. It's about building trust.

It's about coaxing your parrot to slowly overcome his fears of you, your fingers, your hands, your pet dog, your spouse etc.

And in order to build that trust, you have to stop forcing your parrot to do things like step up when he doesn't want to, or not pet him when he wants to be left alone.

And every time you ignore this rule, your bird distrust for you grows a little bit more, and you'll have to work that much harder to rebuild the relationship.

That's why yesterday I sent you the "Power Pause" video. Because it gives you the very first tool you need to start working with your parrot to not scare him.

It shows how by giving a parrot what it wants you can train it to do ANYTHING! And in the case of the power pause video, my two birds wanted to be left alone more than anything. And when they behaved like I wanted them to, I rewarded them with 5-10 seconds of leaving them alone.

And you saw in the video how in a span of 5-10 minutes this built up enough trust with my parrots so that they would let me touch them... Just because I didn't try to force them to do anything.

I just pushed them a little way into their 'Fear Zone' waited for them to behave, and then rewarded them for it. It's a VERY powerful concept that allows you to get close enough to your parrot so that you can start training him more advanced skills and tolerances.


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