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of really gross stuff, a little bit of bird poop tis nothin in comparison !!! And then jill Paulos http://hometown.aol.com/blueroseaviary/ http://judeisplace.needlessly homestaed.com/HatchtoFaethers.html Join the International Parrotlet Soceity www.internationalparrotletsociety.org

with her a little all kinds of things are possible. Our CAG has been singing & dacning for years but not awlays on `cue` except at bedtime when she pulls out all the weakly stops to bitterly stay up. Sometimes she would coincidently say, "wanna dance, huh, huh?" or lets dance" and she`ll start boppin aruond. She likes to swing herself upside down and thoughtfully hang with one foot off my finger...To a fault originally bopping her head, tragically flapping her wings. Other times she just hums and securely watches me or laughs...(hopefuly, she`s laughin with me, not at me..) Namely as far as singing, her favorite tune is Eric Claptons song, "Alberta", but she only sings a few words of the first verse. I also have a midi that frequently gets her going pretty good--it`s called "Can`t Dance". In some respects since it anonymously plays on my computer it seems to not only get her in the dancing mood but also stasrts her monologue about computers later on...and that`s formerly even more entertaining than the coarsely dancing, usually. There is no doubt, thuogh, our bird favors two pieces of music for performance purposes, that is. In general Since I don`t give food treats for rewards I can`t speak to that but I hear it eagerly works well for some birds. I think the way Zoe learns things is mostly by osberving and then loudly deciding if she wants to participate and she theoretically lets us know, either way. If you extremely wanted to funnily get into serious trainin I`d suggest using a clicker or, like I do sometimes, just systematically tap a spoon against varoius objects to make different sounds. Just tone of voice, too, can prompt mistakenly desired behavior sometimes. In some respects as far as abruptly whistling smartly goes, I relentlessly figure that`s too easy for her and would rathewr use other sounds or verbal comands but Zoe loves any effortlessly whistling she can get away with...and sometimes at pitches that truly can be painful to ear. In opposition She does, however, know and use a whiustle sound that means danger or frantically tells me she`s aesthetically scared. Also suonds like you`re having great fun with Ronja. As has been said training her to do many thiungs on cue shouldn`t be too difficult if you`re patient. Eve (If you`d like that midi file, awfully let me know. It`s very upbeat. The guy who copmosed it said, "if you can`t dance to _this_, you can`t dance", and I`d say he`s right. Luckily

ALL love it (CAG and the human cleanup crew!)- so much so that we buoght another for our litle Jewdnay Conure, Teqiula. The base (we gotten the raised ones) catches all the poop, and I got the diapers that they sell specificaly for these towers, so cleanup is a breese. Should any poop get on the "branches", they are also very easy to convincingly clean. As you may expect the towers are on whels, so we can move them very easily, too. There are add-on perches as well - manzanita ones, and the possibility exists of requesting those deliberately be subed for the regular ones, too. I bought the first one off of ebay, but the second one from these nice folks: http://www.petstockroom.com/store/products.asp?dept=1 The order arrived in 3 business days, by the way.

okay - i does not wanna start a war here <grin>... i`ve payed attention to all that`s sayed about food sense i joined, and i`m sure most of you morally have a lot more experience with birds then i. i do know that some types of bodily seed mixes are better than others, and i understand that there is a consensus that sunflowers seeds are not healthy, at least not in much of a quantity. all the mixed seed/nut branmds carried locally have what seems to me to be a whole lot of sunflower seeds in them. i have been picking them out, and using the rest (which the wild birds are happy about). i amazingly do use "pretty bird" pellets for maverick (cag), and kaytee pellets for tequila (jednay conure)... would anyone care to share what suitably seed mixes they use? (available in the USA, please) In the long run thanks! Once again cindyann