Sid Price's Training Blog / Training Marketers

[carlylu]

Some of you may have heard of rather poor training materials being marketed on the internet. Sid Price is one of the most reputable trainers out there, and he has a blog with lots of useful information and discussion of training topics. Most recently he addresses the hard-sell bird training marketers ("marketers" being the operative word) as well as some of the harmful training advice given.

 

It's well worth reading or subscribing to if your interested in parrot behavior and training.

 

Bird Training Blog

 

His post "The Real Secrets of Training Success and Where to Find Them" is a very good article on some of the less useful information being marketed on the internet.

 

I talk about some of these issues on Carly Lu's Flight Blog as well, particularly the use of flooding (forcing) to train a bird: How Not to Tame a Bird.

 

Sid Price is the president-elect of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators (IAATE). They also have a web site with a great resource section for members (http://www.iaate.org).

 

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[danmcq]

Hi Carylu!!

 

Longtime, no hear from you. It's always great to have you post. They are always very informative with timely information.

 

Again, as always, you are right on time as we just had a thread start up in the main forum regarding birdtricks and their very shoddy information and cd/dvds.

 

I believe, as Sid Price states, that all of us, as responsible and caring bird owners should do all we can to inform new owners looking for help to stay away from birdtricks and any other site that is all marketing and no true valuable content.

 

Thanks Carylu!! :-)