Condessa,Joaoejoca and friends
Thank you.
All that I do is to extend to them the courtesy and the dignity due to fellow sentients of equal standing, be they birds or beasts.
No sane person can go for walks with a parrot and followed by 2 cats around neighbourhood and in wadis.
Riamfada and kitties
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/100658.html
Including into the ocean.
Last time to beach for Dommie // Cats at home //3 days 2 nights at Turtle Beach Resort
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/104321.html
More of how that was done with the cats here
Last Footfall in Nepal// Sharon & kitty advice // Riamfada over weekend 18-19 March
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/113583.html
Greys are not the best candidate to take outdoors for free flights. For that matter, no parrots are good candidates to do any free flight with.
I strongly urged people here not to do free flights with any kind of parrot as
FREE FLIGHT IS LIFE AND DEATH PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELF UNLESS YOU DO KNOW.
NEVER EVER FREE FLY WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE AS THIS CAN LEAD TO LOSS AND DEATH OF YOUR BIRD.
Riamfada was a wild caught, and likely to be 4-5 years old when she came into my care in Oct 2008. She was very bitey , refused to step up and a frightened ball of grey.
She flew to me on cue within a couple of days. I never ever starve my birds and creatures or use that euphemism of 'weight management' as excuse.
Riamfada willingly do this for me, as an equal to another equal.
Idiot kitties // Riamfada free flights at home and outside villa
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/109794.html
Chile // Riamfada free flights at the edge of Rub Al Khali
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/112019.html
There are folks that advocate taking baby parrots from their parents with the idea of 'taming' them that way.
I MUST URGE THAT SHOULD NEVER BE DONE.
Who are we to deprived the fledglings of the time with their parents and deprived them of knowing that they are parrots?
To gain some imaginary advantage? To forcefully attempt that artificial imprinting into their mind at early stage?
Are we that weak in our self confidence that we must resort to forcefully taking parrot babies from their own parronts?
Because self styled 'experts' advise you to do so?
I am just an amateur with quaint moral values, and a student and will always remain a student.
When the buying stop, the selling of unweaned baby birds will stop too.
Yingshiong my shama above was wild caught at 3 years old and given to me at 5 years old.
Riamfada is a wildcaught as can be seen by her open quarantine ring.
I never trained them. Starting withTinkerbell, and then Yingshiong, and now Riamfada,
THEY WERE THE TRAINERS. I AM THEIR TRAINEE.
I hope you all will enjoy the photos, and the stories behind the photos.
DO NOT DO FREE FLIGHTS JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE THOSE PHOTOS, JUST AS YOU DO NOT DO SKY DIVING YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU SEEN PHOTOS OF PEOPLE DOING THAT.
If you have cats , and your cats follow you into the ocean, then perhaps you can also do free flights with your parrots too.
Warmest regards
Shanlung
山 龍
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