Who Should Train a Parrot in a Family Setting?

Who should train a parrot in a family setting where the whole family wants to be involved? Or, in a couple where both the husband and wife want to befriend the bird? This video is about how to divide the task of training a parrot between multiple people.

Should everyone work on training the parrot a little at a time? Divide the tasks? Or have one person responsible for and focused on the training? Certainly any of these options are possible, but for the most part, training will be most effective when one person does the training. Once the bird has learned the cues, tools, and skills, then the training can be more easily extended towards other family members.

Teach the parrot essential skills such as how to step up on a perch, step up on a hand, come out of the cage, go back into the cage, flight recall, and allow touching. Learn step by step the skills to train your parrot with the help of The Parrot Wizard's Guide to Well-Behaved Parrots:
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Which family member should do the initial training? The person that the bird is most bonded or friendly toward? The person who is most eager to hold the parrot? The primary care taker that cleans the cage?

I suggest that the person with the most time, patience, dedication, and desire to befriend the parrot does the primary training. You see, at first training can be very slow and ineffective. It builds gradually and it can be a while before you see real results. It is easy to get discouraged and give up. Someone who the bird is already friendly with may not see a benefit to working really hard at training when the bird is already friendly toward them. However, that training may be a deal breaker whether the bird can be friendly toward other family members that it isn't naturally drawn to.

For these reasons, the primary care taker is usually the person with the most dedication toward the parrot and should thus be the primary trainer regardless of who the parrot prefers. Once the parrot learns a specific skill such as targeting, it's a great idea to have other family members participate and target the parrot as well. This way the bird learns to do the training for anyone and not just a single person.

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