by alicat » Sat May 07, 2016 8:58 am
Honestly if this bans me from the site, awesome. Good. I don't care
Brandon, you are the most rude. Disrespectful. Child I have had the displeasure to meet online. You are every bad cliche about teenagers rolled into a fiesty little ball. At first you reminded me of myself, stubborn and fierce in your love of something (parrots) and willing to fight to the death about them. The difference between me and you, is that I could admit I was wrong and actually consider others advice.
However, a lot of what you say and do are Wrong. Not arguably so, they are wrong by all standards.
Calling yourself a "parrot trainer" and actually lying to people and saying you are. Have you been to seminars? Training classes? ANYTHING? People with much much much more experience than you wouldn't consider calling themselves parrot trainers. The issue is you are lying to your customers, and possibly causing a lot more problems. You should show your customers your posts online, like this before making a sale. If what you say and do is right, there is nothing to be ashamed of. Show them and i can assure you people would turn around and walk away.
You have little experience with birds. You have cockatiels. Your African gray who you've had for 8 (?) years isn't tame. You're working on stepping up BACKWARDS after EIGHT years. Backwards so he can't see you coming and can't get away. He runs to the top of his cage to hide and get away from you when you walk by. You couldn't even handle a lovebird!!! And you're telling people you can train their parrots. What you are doing is illegal in my Country for good reason. Maybe you should stop and think - hm. Why is it illegal in America? Because there is a good reason. You have good intentions, but you are not qualified to give anything more than subtle advice to people and even then, you aren't qualified because you do NOT have experience.
Please tell me what professionals you have talked to face to face, what seminars on bird behavior you have gone to, what classes you have taken related to animals.
I'm GOING TO COLLEGE to be a vet tech, but I don't run around training people's animals claiming to be something I'm not. That would be lying, and putting animals in jeopardy, and i would be sued in my country. It is illegal. In order to have a profession doing something, you need training. You have two cockatiels. Which are the easiest most laid back birds you can own. And honestly how well are they trained? Tame, sure. Anyone can tame a cockatiel. You gave away a lovebird because you couldn't handle him. You have no experience with larger birds except Tiko, who hates you. Bites you when he steps up. Runs to the top of the cage to get away when you walk past. You just force yourself on him until he submits.
You asked endless questions on the avenue and when we're give correct advice, you would implement it for a day and say it wasn't working. Then a week later ask the same question, get the same answer, and still not do it. You don't even use proven training techniques!! You very obviously try to rush and push things when you shouldn't. You should be encouraging owners to bond with their birds, slowly earn their trust, like EVERYONE told you to do with Mango.
People here were giving you advice-look up avian behavior and anatomy! Learn more! But you rudely dismissed him.
But googling something does not make you qualified to train others animals.
And you board others animals too. Do you quaranteen them? Do you require theyve had a vet check within the year confirming they're disease free? Have you taken all 4 of YOUR birds to a vet and had their fecal matter looked at/blood drawn to be sure YOU'RE not transferring disease? What if they give your cockatiels a disease and they die. Diseases live on any surface for months, and you train ONE bird with a disease and it's in your house. No more birdies. Not to mention if someone else's bird gets sick.... you'll be sued for multiple things.
It's illegal in the USA for a damn good reason.
I also hate the way you speak to adults trying to help you. Wolf, although I'm sure he wanted to rip his hair out, only slightly discouraged you but then told you ways to help. You blatantly ignored his help, and only read and responded to certain parts of his post. Paj hits the nail on the head every time. You are not qualified to train any other animals.
I know you will skim what I say, and not respond to the important parts so I am leaving now.
You are a disgrace to parrot lovers and you're EVERYWHERE. Have you stopped to think people don't like what you have to say because you come off as rude and you're wrong most of the time? If 90% of people are saying something, if you're being kicked off (even temporarily) MULTIPLE forums maybe you should listen.
But I forgot, at 16 you know more than people with 50 years experience because "you're special" "you have a talent".
As was said by a very wise individual "you calling yourself a parrot trainer is like me calling myself an elephant trainer". Oh I got the jist of it, I googled it, I saw an elephant once. I gave it a peanut. I'll start charging people!
I'm so done. You are disrespectful and you honestly shouldn't have birds. Have fun shoving mango into a flight suit for your own enjoyment and enjoy whatever profit you'll get from selling loki (your ads still up to sell!).