2. Padded Dowel 3. Shoulder Sitting All About Training Cockatoo Personality Cockatoos are playful, amorous, comical and really intelligent. They are probably the most inquisitive of the parrot family. Cockatoos love to be hugged and snuggled. They love to show off their head, wings, and erect crest. And they are known to reciprocate the love and affection of their owners. Cockatoos require a great deal of attention on a dayto- day basis. If you fail to fulfill their needs, these birds can turn violent and uncontrollable. It will then turn to feather picking or screaming or do both. Ensure you give them a covey of toys. These birds love to play and chew to keep themselves occupied. If you are a workaholic or too busy to tend to all the birds needs, do yourself a favor - don't get a Cockatoo. They are best kept in pairs so as to avoid becoming too dependent on their owners. If you pair of birds are of similar size and age, they should hit it off fabulously. And you will experience less noise when they are alone. All About Training Cockatoos Cockatoo Initial Stages Of Taming And Training can be quite jealous. If you show affection to children or to other pets in their presence they may react violently. Some of them may attack the object of your affection with their sharp talons and strong beak. However, over a time the will be sufficiently tame and docile to be left alone with children. This will only happen when the bird feels that it is part of the family in which it is being raised. However, this is a " wait and see" situation. Cockatoos are emphatic doers. They love dancing, climbing and shaking and even roller-skating. In order to domesticate the Cockatoo, you need to be consistent and disciplined. The primary thing is to win over the bird's trust. Training your Cockatoo may take a long time. The first thing you should do is to identify your pet's favorite treat. A treat is an important tool you can use to coax your pet to perform tricks. Keep the treat size small so that you don't over-feed your pet. Training All About Training sessions should ideally last for 20 minutes. But discontinue it earlier if your pet isn't responding. The most important stage in training is gaining the trust of your Cockatoo. This is more difficult than you think. Your bird isn't going to trust you just because it lives in your house. You will have to be gentle and patient if you want your pet to trust you. Don't try to grab your bird. This will scare it. In fact, don't even stick your finger into the cage to begin with. You should first start by hand-feeding treats. Your pet might be skeptical at first, but if you do this repeatedly it will take the treat from your hand. Just make sure you don't make any sudden movements. When your pet is comfortable with this, take it out of the cage to feed it from the palm of your hand. Once your pet is comfortable with you and trusts you, you can start training it. Initial training should work towards making your pet disciplined All About Training and more house-friendly. You should probably start with simple commands to teach your pet to step up, fly back into the cage, etc. Once it has learned the basic commands, you can start training it to perform tricks and to mimic human speech. Find out what the bird's favorite treat is. It will be your most important training tool. Training perches and towels are good tools. As we go along, you will see how these are used. Gloves are not part of the kit. Most birds are intimidated by gloves. |