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Taming and Training Lovebirds

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This book is titled taming and training lovebirds, yet only 6 of the 92 pages are dedicated to this topic! If I wanted a book on basic care, basic information or anything other than taming and training this may have been an informative book but since I have already read 15 other books (not exagerating) on those topics, this book was useless! Regardless of reading level this book does not provide what it promises and I highly do not recommend this book.

The book had a lot of diferent chapters and beatiful pictures in it.It told what kind of fruit lovebirds can eat.It told about what kind of toys were dangerous to lovebirds and about nesting boxes.This is the best lovebird book I ever read.

I had a set of lovebirds when I was a kid. I kept them in the same cage at first, but one was a rescue from a first grade class, so it was a bit violent toward the other bird and I subsequently separated them. Shortly after this, the cranky, "first grade class PTSD" lovebird, built a nest and laid freaking eggs in it! After this happened, the bird became so aggressive that I couldn't even get my hand in the cage to change the water, because it would viciously attack me to the point of gouging my hands and drawing blood. I seriously have no idea how that bird lived so long without water because It must have been drinking mildew for a week. Obviously, I feel bad about this now, but in my defense, I was a kid and I didn't really get much help from my parents in this department. I had this book, but it does not contain a chapter that addresses lovebird "hysterical pregnancies." After about 2 weeks, these eggs (which were obviously unfertilized because both birds were female) started to stink to high heaven because that stupid bird would not get off them, nor would she let me in the cage to do anything, like clean out the crap and rotting unfertilized eggs. I finally went out and bought some thick leather gloves and cleaned out the rotten eggs and cage. I then gave the birds to a lady at the humane society who took them home and probably knew exactly what to do if or when that situation ever happened again. The moral of the story? I don't know, but I really hate lovebirds.