Maisy and Mattie really began getting along. Mattie would be out on the front porch leisurely wagging her tail and waiting for us when I went down to get Maisy. I would let Maisy go at the elevator and she would gallop to the door. When I finally caught up to her, there they would [...]
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Letters From Maisy #11
Posted in "Letters From Maisy", tagged blogging about parrots, Letters From Maisy, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Letters From Maisy #7
Posted in "Letters From Maisy", tagged Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, Letters From Maisy, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training on April 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Maisy had very long hair, so when it rained, it was “wet dog smell” for days! So I was cautious about getting her too wet unless she was getting a bath. Wheww, Doggies! But it wasn’t so much the wet dog smell as it was getting all of that long hair dry. For the most [...]
Letters From Maisy #6
Posted in "Letters From Maisy", essays and articles, tagged Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training, Parrot Nation, blogging about parrots, Parrot Blogs, Bird Blogs, Parrot Blog, dog sitting, Letters From Maisy on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maisy, Mattie and I were getting into the swing of things by now. When I got home from work, she pretty much expected to be picked up and was usually waiting in the living room for me. Maisy had already been through a bout of cancer and was a miracle dog, according to her Vet. [...]
“Letters From Maisy” #2
Posted in "Letters From Maisy", Uncategorized, tagged Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, Letters From Maisy, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is the #2 of the series, “Letters From Maisy.” Maisy’s character and voice continued to develop as I spent more time with her. When she first started staying with me a few days a week while Beverly was at class, she was on a very high fiber diet which made her “elimination rate” go [...]
A Question Of Balance
Posted in Patricia Sund, essays and articles, tagged African Grey, Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training on April 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
bal·ance noun, verb,-anced, -anc·ing. 1. a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc. 2. mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behavior, judgment, etc. 3. the act of balancing; comparison as to weight, amount, importance, etc.; estimate. I just got done with six straight days of flying. My body feels [...]
Midwest Bird Expo: This One is a Keeper!
Posted in Events, Patricia Sund, People in Aviculture, tagged African Grey, behavior training, Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Magazine, Bird Talk Writer, birds, blogging about parrots, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, Irena Schulz, Jason Crean, Mark Bittner, Midwest Bird Expo, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, parrot information, Parrot Nation, parrots, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training, Snowball the dancing cockatoo, Sy Montgomery on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just got an Email from Jason Crean, who I met at the Rocky Mountain Society of Aviculture in Denver… in November. (I love the sound of that…) Jason has this really great product he loves: it’s tea for your bird. (More on that in another post!) Anyway, he has this very neat website: http://www.beaksbirdhouse.com/index2.html [...]
What’s The Point?
Posted in Patricia Sund, essays and articles, tagged African Grey, African Grey Babies, Baby Parrots, behavior training, Bird Blogs, information about parrots, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training, taking care of parrots on January 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
WHAT’S THE POINT? By Patricia Sund Having a parrot in your life is a puzzling existence. I suppose you could agree with the idea that they provide companionship just as a dog or a cat does, but why in God’s name a parrot? Where did we ever get the idea that having a parrot would [...]
“Shut Up!”
Posted in Patricia Sund, Uncategorized, tagged behavior training, Bird Talk Writer, Cockatoos in ads, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Positive reinforcement training, Shut Up! on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I found this unbelievable ad on “Youtube.” I was surprised because I thought I’d seen most of the ads out there employing birds in their work, but this one is clever and stupid at the same time. It’s for a company called “White Smoke” which as far as I can ascertain, is a company that [...]
The “Cincy Zoo Kinkajou”
Posted in Cincinnati Zoo, Patricia Sund, Uncategorized, tagged Bird Talk Writer, Patricia Sund, Zoos, working in a zoo, Positive reinforcement training, enrichment, blogging about parrots, Cincinnati Zoo, zoo work, working at a zoo, Zoo Keepers, Parrot Blogs, Children's Zoo, Bird Blogs, Parrot Blog, kinkajou on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting video of an animal you don’t often see or even think about. Cody lives at the Children’s Zoo and Andrea and Tanya are doing a “Meet the Keeper” for people. Cody the kinkajou got quite the crowd as he is a popular resident at the Cincinnati Zoo Children’s Zoo. Share this: [...]
Cruising is For the Birds!
Posted in Patricia Sund, essays and articles, tagged behavior training, birds, blogging about parrots, enrichment, parrot training, Positive reinforcement training, rehabilitation, Robin Shewokis, taking care of parrots on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got Parrots? Do a Cruise! This looks like it’s going to be a blast! And it’s a fund raising event for the World Parrot Trust! Sailing from Ft. Lauderdale on October 24, 2009 for 8 days Returning to Ft Lauderdale on November 1, 2009 For even more information please check out [...]


