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Teaching a fearful parrot to step up.

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Great article!
 

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Good article. I enjoyed reading it.
 

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Awesome article! Helped me to understand some of the things I was doing wrong with my birds :)
 

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Thats what I did with my budgie but did not realize it. Soon she was on my hand eating millet.

 

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Memories........

MC has an issue with hands. He prefers standing on my forearm. We've done work similar to this to do a step up but I've learned he prefers to step up on the T stick and then off that onto my arm. His way......
 
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