Sally Blanchard's Parrots Made E-Z: Stuff You Need to Know About Screaming Behavior in Companion Parrots

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY INTERNATIONALLY-KNOWN PARROT EXPERT SALLY BLANCHARD
.pdf 31 pages

Topics include:

- Understanding Why Parrots Scream,
- Screaming is NOT the Problem - Parrots Can Naturally be Loud, 
- Manipulative Screaming for Attention and Self-stimulating Screams are the Problem
- Teaching Positive Behaviors to Distract Screaming,
- Easy to Prevent Harder to Solve, 
- Parrot Vocalization is Communication, 
- Noise Tolerance, The Human Element, 
- Raucous Good Time Parrots, 
- Anticipating Noise Patterns,
- Immediate Cause and Effect, 
- Understanding Contact Calls, 
- Anticipation of Need, 
- Changing the Person's Behavior First, 
- Bad Advice Creates More Problems than it Solves, 
- Trying "Everything" Just Adds Confusion, A Trade-off, 
- Greetings and Farewells, 
- The "Primal Psitta-Scream", 
- Repatterning a Parrot Not to Scream, 
- On the Street Where He Lived, 
- Unspoiling a Cockatoo, 
- Noisy Playtime is Important, 
- The Technique of Noise Substitution, 
- Changing Negative to Positive, 
- Instructional Interaction, 
- Self-soothing and Comfort Behaviors, 
- Quick Disapproval - NOT Punishment, 
- An Emotionally Secure "Bappyhood", 
- Dependent Independence, 
- Permanent Changes are Not Easy, 
- Screaming Basics: Unacceptable Screaming, 
- Screaming Basics: Acceptable Screaming