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I don't have a parrot, but a cockatiel that I inherited from a lady at work who said she'd had the bird from someone else, and I can tell, even tho I've never owned a bird like this, that the bird has been neglected and abused.
Anyway, I put him in a completely new, clean clean clean bigger cage, and have watched him become beautiful. He still doesn't trust me even after months. Hopefully, there will come a time that he won't shiver and shake when I approach the cage or hiss and strike out at me when I clean the cage.
The whistles that he knows, seems to be the only way he knows to communicate, and the family and I are trying to teach him a different, more complicated whistle. I'm sure he doesn't know the difference between whistling and language, so we're not concerned if he never talks. However, we're thrilled when his "chirping" and whistling changes whenever another family member enters the room.
I will continue to search videos that could train me to train him. Since I work so much, I have to rely on the family members who are home all the time to keep him entertained and engaged....
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