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when my cravings get really strong i go outside to smell the smoke from the smokers and OMG IT STINKS!!! my cravings are then back to minimal.

I quit for good last nov, cold turkey. I deal with the cravings everyday especially when when i get stressed. I made up my mind that I am stronger the the mental addiction and will not start again. I am done with it. I loved smoking but it is horrible for you and really really hard to quit. what would piss me off is i would get half way to work and realize i forgot my badge or maybe forgot my wallet but i never forgot my smokes. its funny how the drug can make you remember to feed the addiction but not remember the important things like to put the work badge around your neck or put your wallet in your pocket or your last nights left overs for lunch... whats more important inhaling a bunch of poison or your job??? thats what i use to ask myself and as a smoker you know that its bad for you but its like the amex commercials, never leave home without it... and honestly 6 bucks a pack per day is stupid money to be burning up.

lol nice. thanks for sharing.

don't these losers have anything better to do? i swear hackers need a good ole fashioned ass kicking. :mad:

i dunno if you mods are aware or not but if you go to http://www.greyforums.net the site has been hacked.

Laying in bed reading the forums trying to go to sleep. 3day weekend ia at its close its a terrible thing.

or you can just go here. http://www.texaspecans.com/

well in texas silly. pecans off the tree need to be removed from the husk. just like walnuts or coconuts. my sister had a house with 8 HUGE pecan trees. when my kids were little they loved to go pick pecan out of my sisters yard.

texas papershell pecans is where its at. :-)

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Luna would have none of that. she is really really weary of anthing new in her cage. i put a block of plain old pine in her cage the other day for her to play with and she completely flipped out. i took it out and put it on the couch next to her cage. for the next 4 hours she was on the other side of her cage staring at it. so letting her "get used" to it didnt work so i abandoned that idea and put the wood in the trash. it was scrap anyway.

lol, thats what spray bottles are for. a shot of cold water will cool anybody's jets. Luna just turned 1 and still rams her beak between my fingers and does the baby feeding motion. she will barf on me and its so damn gross. the feeling of warm puke running down my hand turns my stomach. yuck. yes i was the same way when my kids were babies. barf on me i just may barf back.

sorry but i dont know why you stuck your nose in this. i was having a conversation with another member, I was not being rude or disrespectful or over bearing. as a mod you are pretty heavy handed and mixed up your roll from posting as a user and a mod. post as one or the other but never as both and NEVER reprimand a user in the thread, take it to a PM. i brought up my dog once and only once it was a reference about that i do have experience in professional animal training. I dont know why you brought it up again like it was the entire point of my post. mind boggling. Im no expert by any means but im not a beginner either. parrot, dog, cat, hawk, horse. it doesn't matter the core of training is the same for any animal. you have a lot to learn and i can say that with what limited knowledge i do have. "No alpha dog in the parrot world or in the grey forums??" wow.... stay classy. I do listen to others on here and have built some cool toys from members posting their ideas but i wont listen to you who said in another thread thread to me "parrots have no way of eliminating salt"....... this is a great forum, I thought it was about learning but it looks like "its the good ole i don't agree with you so im going to threaten to ban you". I will not be bullied by you to curb my thoughts or views or words just because you do not agree with them. when you post flat out wrong information like about salt for example is reason enough to take what you say with a grain of salt. thanks for turning a interesting thread into a ugly one. Im done, lock my account. Sarasota, thanks for the convo. contrary to what Jayd thinks i respect you and your postings. we didnt see eye to eye on what the video was about. thats life. see ya

my apologies.

ive watched parrots of telegraph hill a few times and the documentary does show a couple of the wild cherry heads pretty tore up from fighting. Positive punishment (P+) is popular because it does work and its especially effective when used along with positive reinforcement. the video has a great example of positive punishment. the owner. she got bit once and its painfully obvious she did not want to get bit again (P+). the host had to get her over that obstacle that was in the way of her helping her bird if he needed help.

No i will not refrain from telling a member they missed something. i was not rude or hostile, i was merely pointing out that there was a area of the video that he should look at again because he may have missed it. please point out to me where i said Sarasota didnt know what he was talking about? even though i do not agree with his opinion on this matter i still respect what he has to say. so i really do not understand why you are reprimanding me. since you brought up edI understand his point about positive reinforcement training and I use it on my birds and other animals, im no stranger to animal training, i took my rottweiler to a Schultzhund III title. I am going to say this one more time and im done. the video was about training the owner not the bird, the bird already knew how to step up. the owner needed reassurance that even if the bird bites that in an emergency that you will just have to grin and bear it. she she was there because the bird got hurt in its cage and she did not know how to handle the situation. if that means "man handling" the bird then so be it. on the subject of "man Handling"... The owner never "man handled " billy. she learned how to extract the bird. at 3:55 when the owner makes her first attempt to remove billy she is really scared and if look closely she does not pin billys toes. she removed Billy with little stress and even gives him a stroke down the back for doing good, looks like positive reinforcement to me. at 4:50 the host goes over what they accomplished. i believe the word used incase of future injury or fire... she now knows how to handle it. that is not a bad thing ever.

Interesting book i may have to read it. but i still maintain that the training was not for the bird it was for the owner. taking the bite was part of the host getting the owner over the fear of getting bit. its obvious this is a first time parrot owner and she need a lot of help to get over her ignorance and fear of handling a bird.

I think you are missing the part at the beginning where the owner said they could not handle billy to get him out of his cage to take care of his wing injuries. the training you pointed out was more for the owner than for Billy. did you notice how afraid she was when the host told her it was her turn to extract Billy? she was racked with fear. I see nothing wrong with the host telling the owner to take the bite, because you know sometimes you just have to for the benefit of the bird. at 4:40 the Host even talks about the owner wanting to learn how to handle billy a better, and she did. the owner now has a bit more confidence with her parrot. the 5:02 cliip is edited in from earlier in the session not the end of it. at the end Billy is quietly sitting in the cage looking content. you linked a cool video but i have no clue what training a apex predator like a Hawk has to do with the subject matter of this thread on how to train a owner to extract a injured parrot from its cage.

what dan said was 100% correct. the session was for training the owner its clear she had no clue on how to extract the bird. I actually think the lady was more terrified than the bird was.... The bird was not harmed and the owner gained confidence on how to handle a emergency which is why she was there. she was not there to train the bird or to build trust.

hey judy yea i know but at work (shhhh dont tell anybody) for security reasons we dont allow users PC's to save login information.

what is it set at??? 30 seconds??? i kid, i kid but it is painfully short. could the omnipotent forum overlords please increase this time to something longer than it is now?

lol, couple of pigs uh?

the day i got luna i took her to a avian vet to get her checked out. the first thing he recommended was to remove the band, he see's birds with injuries frequently from the band getting caught on something. so i had him cut it off.

are you asking about avian health insurance? I see brochures for this at my vet and have looked into it. here in the states its expensive and in my opinion not really worth it. here is a link for you to research. https://www.exoticdirect.co.uk/ PS. welcome to the forums.

no. from what you put in your post of what you feed Marco you are doing fine. dont worry Marco is in good hands and you are doing the right thing. PS tell your GF to stay away from that guy.