Tips To Discipline Your Pet Bird
Pet birds with behavioural problems ordinarily have social problems too. There would be occasions when behaviour issues with birds can be brought about by lack of interaction with owners, conflict with other animals or just as a consequence of affliction. It is important to distinguish the factors why birds are showing negative behaviour. By identifying the stressors you may take it out of the birds’ system.
Positive reinforcement is an effective method which can be employed to train and tame birds. Positive reinforcement focuses on what birds want like food, a scratch, verbal praise, comfort and other similar things. Negative reinforcement, obviously, is the opposite of this and is rarely successful finally.
Penalty never resolves the birds’ behaviour issues. To handle negative attitude of birds, here are some simple tips you can take into consideration:
• Show your dissatisfaction with your bird’s behaviour by facial expressions. Frown. Birds can collect facial expressions and body movements. The best method of showing dissatisfaction towards your pet bird is by your body movements. Maintain eye contact when doing this.
• There are bed owners who also suggest turning your back behind your birds or ignoring them. This would discourage them into doing bad acts.
• Some bird owners say that it can be effective to talk to birds with low but not loud voice. Tell them what they did was wrong. But be concise and short as feasible. Too much negative attention might have negative effects on your pet.
• Never hit a bird. Birds have fragile bones, physical force may injure them fatally. Also, bird abuse can also result to aggressiveness and viciousness.
• When disciplining your pet, never compromise their health. Examples would be insufficient food and water supply, neglecting the cage and even bathing them. This can result into deep emotional and physical injuries.
• When giving birds food as rewards for their good behaviour, opt for some food which they would enjoy but seldom eat. It is also good to pet, scratch them as positive reinforcements. But be cautious of offering treats with too much sugar and fat.
There would be situations when severe aggression and viciousness is treated with mood-modifying drugs. When having issues with your birds you can consult your avian behaviourist or your veterinarian. But any treatment the problems creating the bad behaviour.
Actually, it is significant to assess if the bad behaviour is produced by medical problem. So if you have seen anything with your bird it would be preferable to bring them first to a vet to make sure that medical issues are ruled out.
Attitude cannot change overnight. So don’t be disappointed if your birds are not showing improvements immediately after employing the mentioned tips. Just like when disciplining children, consistency is the key when training your birds. Birds would realize what you want to happen when you set about being in step with your method and ways.
When disciplining your pet birds, it is essential to balance things. Of course you wanted to correct bad behaviour, but it is as important to reinforce of illustrate the good behaviour also. Birds reply to training better when focusing on the goodies, not the bad things.
This method may require hard work, patience and love. It may take a long while, however when you look at your happy pet bird, I think its going to be worthwhile.
