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COMPANION COCKATOOS table of contents
CHAPTER ONE
- My Experiences and Theories
Rows and Rows of Cockatoos
The Brownsville Zoo Experience
Hippy Cockatoo?
Sidebar: Screaming and Attention
Sidebar: Signs of Illness in Cockatoos
Heads in the Towels
Slowing Down a Cockatoo
Sidebar: Nurturing Toweling Techniques
Sidebar: Techniques for Lowering Your Energy
Traumatized
Cockatoos
Confusing Two ‘toos
At Arm’s Length
Dancing Cockatoo
Not Nearly as Easy
Sidebar: Feather Destructive Behavior
Impossible Situations
Phobic Behavior
Nurturing
Submission
Sidebar: Defining Phobic Cockatoos
The Importance of Caregiver Consistency
Sidebar: Principles of Nurturing Submission
Intelligence and Manipulation
No Doubt Who is in Charge
Little Mechanics
Wierd Little Games
Different Strokes
Cartoon: Never, Never Land
CHAPTER TWO
- Personality Development
Developing Cockatoo Personality
A Horrible Misconception
Weaning and Emotional Security
Sidebar: Food Begging Behaviors & Insecurity
Sadie’s Story
A Better Way
Myth of Spoiling a Cockatoo Baby
The Cockatoo Cuddling Conundrum
Patterning Positive Behavior
Important Things To Teach Your Bappy Cockatoo
CHAPTER THREE:
Changing Older Cockatoo Behavior
Working with Wild-caught Cockatoos
Losing Friends
Working with Second-hand Cockatoos
Sidebar: Potential with “New to Me” Cockatoos
Time to Teach New Behaviors
CHAPTER FOUR:
Vocalizations - Good and Bad
Talking on the “In Breathe”
Screaming Issues
Your Scream, I Scream, We all Scream
Not all Screaming is Bad
Making the Walls Reverberate
Teaching Tricks as Distractions
Self-soothing and Comfort Behaviors
CHAPTER FIVE:
Pornothology: Cockatoos and
Sex
Bonding is Good
Taking Away Hard Won Concepts
The Optimal Environment and
The Gray Areas of Sexual Behaviors
Breeding Behaviors
Sidebar: Sexual and Handling Triggers
Behaviors that May be Sexual
Think about What Really Needs Changing
Sidebar: What a Sexual Bird Looks/Acts Like
Cartoon: The Perpetual Petting Machine
CHAPTER SIX:
Health and Social Issues
Cockatoo Health Concerns
Sidebar: A Nutritious Cockatoo Diet
Feather Destructive Behavior
The Human Condition and Misconceptions
Social Interaction: The Number One Priority
Single Cockatoos - Multiple Cockatoos
Cockatoo Flocks
An Invitation to Play
Initiating Play
Male versus Female
Three Genders of Cockatoos
Sidebar: Know your own Cockatoo
There are Well-behaved Males
Situational Aggression
Biting to Communicate
Hard-core Aggression
Sidebar: Cockatoos on Shoulders
Sidebar: The Beak is NOT a Weapon
Sidebar: Basic Concepts of Nurturing Guidance
CHAPTER SEVEN:
Quality Nutrition - Fresh Foods
Question Anything as a Total Diet
Parrot Products vs Pet Industry Products
Sidebar: Coverting a Cockatoo to a Nutritious Diet
Sidebar: Glop Recipe
Missing Nutrition
Sidebar: Do Not Feed These Foods
Quality Foods to Feed Your Parrot
Sidebar: Make your Cockatoo Forage for his Food
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Stories and Philosophies
A Few of My Favorite Cockatoo Moments
A Flock of Flying Cockatoos
Arguments and a Middle Ground
A Better Understanding
The Flip Side
Cartoon: So Much Baggage
CHAPTER NINE:
Three Important Articles
Skippy’s Story
Working with Phobic Cockatoos
The Small Corellas
CHAPTER TEN:
Basic Personality Profiles
Bare-eyed Cockatoo
Citron-crested Cockatoo
Cockatiel
Ducorp’s Cockatoo
Goffin’s Cockatoo
Greater Sulfur-crested Cockatoo
Lesser Sulfur-crested Cockatoo
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Medium Sulfur-crested Cockatoo
Moluccan Cockatoo
Palm Cockatoo
Red-vented Cockatoo
Rose-breasted Cockatoo
Slender-billed Cockatoo
Triton Cockatoo
Umbrella Cockatoo
Cockatoos in the Wild
A Few Interesting Cockatoo Facts
INDEX
Some Cockatoo Humor
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