Training Your Parrot for the Vet Exam DVD

Good Bird Inc's Training Your Parrot for the Veterinary Exam DVD by Barbara Heidenreich teaches you how to train your parrot to cooperate in his medical care. Learn how to teach your bird to eagerly hop into the kennel, present toes for a nail trim and sit patiently. 

About this DVD

The Training Parrot series of educational DVD's are made by Good Bird Inc, with the assistance and sponsorship of 'Doodle Products', 'KAYTEE', 'ParrotDise Perch', 'Wendys Parrots', 'Bird Endowment' and 'The P Patch'.  In this DVD professional animal trainer Barbara Heidenreich teaches you how to train your pet parrot to behave during the event of a vet examination. Step-by-step detailed instructions are provided with a variety of parrot species. Learn how to teach your parrot to step onto a scale, step up onto new people, allow restraint in in a towel, allow nail and feather trimming and more. Positive reinforcement training is a kind and gentle method used to teach your parrot to cooperate with their own medical care.

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About Barbara Heidenreich

Barbara Heidenreich has been a professional Animal Trainer since 1990. She owns and operates Good Bird Inc that provides behaviour and training products to the companion parrot community. These products include Good Bird Magazine, books, videos and training workshops. She is the author of "Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behaviour Problems in Companion Parrots'' and also "The Parrot Problem Solver. Finding Solutions to Aggressive Behavior." She is the past president of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators.

Barbara's experience also includes consulting on animal training in zoos. She provides consulting services to zoos, nature centres and other animal facilities through her other company Animal Training and Consulting Services. She has been a featured speaker on animal training on six continents and has been published in nine different languages. In her career, Barbara has trained animals, trained staff and presented shows at facilities around the world.