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Sometimes it’s hard to tell in this business. I think some of the heroes are the people who train and educate about training. Susan Friedman is a hero. Barbara Heidenreich is a hero. Robin Shewokis is a hero for spreading the message about enrichment and foraging. Susan Friedman is a hero for educating the field [...]

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I’m always up for a good party. I’m always up for learning something new. And if you know me I’m always up for seeing friends. The Houston Parrot Festival pretty much provides all of these. If you haven’t hit the Houston Parrot Festival yet, I highly suggest you save up for next year. Starting now. [...]

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I’m all for education and enlightenment. I love it when I learn something new. Love it when I try something and it works. The first time I heard Robin Shewokis speak on enrichment, it made me think about what I could do to enrich Parker, Pepper and Nyla’s lives. And I think my birds are [...]

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My friend Sandra’s Niece with Parker I have many wishes, yet very few of them are for me. I like to think of wishes as hopes and dreams for the future. Many of these wishes I have are for my friends who have animals, or work for and with animals. I have worked with quite [...]

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Parker, eating bean mix. What else can we do? We try to keep our birds happy, well-fed, trained and healthy. Most of us work at it. We learn everything we can and try our best to provide a suitable environment for them. But after that what else is there? Well, I don’t know but I’m [...]

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I’ve been thinking about the culture of aviculture. Not just about what it is that we do to keep birds in our homes and our lives, but how it effects us as a community. It is a specialized world, probably not unlike people who are interested in religion, or insects or  trains. We have a [...]

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I am many things, but “Parrot Expert” I’m not. I’m a Flight Attendant, a Writer, a human companion to two parrots and foster family to another. I write, I fly, I clean up parrot crap and rake up toy pieces left in the wake of my African Grey, Parker. If Parker was a human being, [...]

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      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 [...]

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That’s Pepper on the right. She’s a perfectly charming African Grey. She’s eighteen years old and she came to live with Parker and me about 3 years ago. She was found by my friend Shari housed in an 18×18 inch galvanized wire cage; probably her original cage from when she was purchased as a young [...]

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                   Behavior Enrichment Science Training   It’s the B.E.S.T. Parrot Conference! (BEST PARROT CONFERENCE INFORMATION) When? – May 29, 30, 31 2009   Where? – Hilton Garden Inn, Edison, NJ You should very seriously consider attending this Conference. They are all terrific Speakers and Educators. Their information [...]

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