How to Train Parrots to Go Inside Carriers

Video Transcript

"Hi my name's Elizabeth speaking on behalf of expert village what we're going to talk about today is how to get your bird to voluntarily go into a crate for travel. One of the first things want to do is you wanna have that crate in this case you might just set it on top of the cage or near the cage and do that for almost a week. You wanna make sure the bird is very comfortable and considers that carrier part of it's normal enviroment. The next thing you would to is let the bird crawl around and explore the cage on its own. And then the next thing you would do is take some of the birds favorite foods or treats and set them inside of the cage and just leave them in there it may take the bird a day or two to finally go inside find the treats and eat them if he ever does. Or you can show the bird that you have a treat, put it inside the carrier, and sometimes if they're comfortable enough with the cage they'll voluntarily just enter the carrier. You can put those seeds closer and closer inside the carrier until the bird voluntarily goes into the carrier to go retrive the treat. The next thing you want to do is close the door behind the animal for just two or three seconds open it up give them another treat. You might try feeding them in the carrier two or three times offering some food. As you can see Ronin's also very familiar with this carrier and is no longer afraid of it and is hoping I will offer him a treat as well. So you can, that's one way to get them accustomed to it. Then you can lock them in for just a few minutes at a time you might take them out for a quick stroll to your car bring them back inside let them back out. All of this is you just want to try and create a stress free environment. This allows you, if you needed to in an emergency, to get your bird into a carrier very easily or if you needed to travel with your bird also making this a positive experience for you and your bird so that you are not getting bitten and bloody trying to cram your bird into a small entrance of a carrier trying to get him to the veterinary office."