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Workshops:
How to live with, feed and handle your pet
bird
Polly want a Cracker? Pet Parrot Training & Husbandry at Shores Animal Hospital
Call Us To Reserve Your
Place—Space is limited!
(352)
372-8387 for
details 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If
no one is available when you call, please leave a message! or
email us at dogcatbirdvet@yahoo.com
SESSION 1
"Behavior
Awareness"
NO
BIRDS ALLOWED FOR SESSION 1, ONLY OWNER'S
Bring your training clicker from a pet store
- Making treats and other ways to feed that encourages foraging.
- Veterinary Health and Nutrition issues based on the latest
information.
- Discussion and video on normal parrot behavior and social arrangements.
Abnormal behavior will also be discussed and how to correct it.
- Discussion on appropriate cages, perches, and toys.
- Discussion on appropriate rest, sleep, and stimulation. Introduction
on clicker training.
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SESSION
2 (starts two weeks after session one)
"Handling and Training "
- Session 2 focuses on handling and communication skills. Each
bird should step up, step down, stay, towel exercises, and more.
Some may require follow up training at home. Bring your birds favorite treats.
- Discuss, demonstrate, and use Clicker Training with your bird. We will teach them to do a 360 Degree turn on command in this session.
- Other items of discussion from AAV handouts: enriching your birds life, feather loss, injury prevention and emergency care..
- Sessions 2-4 are
with you and your bird at Tri-County Pet & Bird Hospital with Dr.
LeClear.
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SESSION 3
"Handling and Games" and "When
to call the Vet"
- Session 3 continues where Session 2 leaves off with handling
and toweling exercises and games.
- Discussion on how to decide if your bird perceives if it is
dominant or submissive to you and the appropriate measures to
take. Emergency procedures at home.
- Clicker training your bird. We will teach them tricks such
as climbing a ladder, walking through tunnels, climbing ropes,
etc., so you have more ways to interact with your bird. More on Positive Reinforcement Training.
- Intro to captive foraging
- More discussion with AAV handouts including: Behavior normal and abnormal, basic care for birds, signs of illness in birds..
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SESSION 4
"Bonding," "Preventing Problems," and "At
home emergency procedures"
- Mutual grooming, preening, and cuddling.
- Times to offer treats, and taking care not to sexually encourage
your bird.
- What to do if your bird becomes too sexually aggressive and
when to watch for this behavior is discussed.
- Discussions of common behavior problems including screaming
and feather picking, and biting.
- More discussion with AAV handouts including: Health exam for birds, when should you take your bird to a veterinarian.
- Discussion and parts of the Captive Foraging Tree DVD. Pending participant interest, we can meet for a 5th session to build foraging trees together.
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PARROT PICNIC
At the end of the four classes, pending participant interest, we can all meet for a parrot pinic at Westside Park in Gainesville. This is actually a big event with thousands of pet bird owners in Europe. Bring a finger food snack to pass around and your bicycle as we enjoy the company of each other and our birds outside at Westside Park in Gainesville. The park is located at the corner of 8th Ave and 34th st. Birds must have feathers trimmed to prevent flight for these sessions. Only one bird per participant.
Sessions 2-4 will need to include you and your bird here with
Dr LeClear at Tri-County Pet and Bird Hospital.
These sessions will be interactive, and will be filled with activities.
Each session will contain a few minutes of video. There will also
be instructions and hints on new ways to feed your bird, and new
suggestions on how to enrich their environment.
Dr. LeClear has attended
The Association for Avian Veterinarians Conferences, North American
Veterinary Conferences, and traveled
to personally visit with other avian veterinarians to
learn about the latest information on medicine, surgery, and behavior
techniques
for birds. Dr. LeClear has spent a lot of personal time
studying about birds and regularly consults with board certified experts
in avian practice about medical and surgical cases. Dr.
LeClear
owns three birds, including a cockatiel, a Hahn’s Macaw, and an
Umbrella Cockatoo, two dogs, and two cats. He has also
hand raised numerous pet birds including cockatiels, an Amazon, a Sun Conure,
and a Goffin Cockatoo. Before becoming a veterinarian
he was high
school chemistry and physics teacher in South Florida
for five years. He worked for other animal hospitals before purchasing
Tri-County Pet and Bird Hospital in December of 1999.
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Tests:
Call for details 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to speak to us
or leave a voice mail (352) 372-8387.
Enrollment Fee= $30.00
All classes will be held at Tri-County Pet and Bird Hospital on specified Saturdays 9:00 A.M. - 9:50 A.M. Call for details 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to speak to us or leave a voice mail (352) 372-8387. Disease testing maybe required depending on your birds age and species. If testing is required, the Chlamydia/Beak and Feather combo test is $110.69. At the end of the four classes, pending participant interest, we can all meet for a parrot picnic at Westside Park in Gainesville. This is actually a big event with thousands of pet bird owners in Europe. Bring a finger food snack to pass around and your bicycle as we enjoy the company of each other and our birds outside at Westside Park in Gainesville. The park is located at the corner of 8th Ave and 34th st. Birds must have feathers trimmed to prevent flight for these sessions. Only one bird per participant. Each session will last between 45-60 minutes long. If testing is necessary, please fast your bird, No food for 8 hours prior to your visit before a blood test. But it is O.K. to allow access to drinking water. An optional and recommended DNA sexing test will be available at the same time.
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