Re: [Freeflight] Re: Setback with Darwin

["Tana Lee" <tana@u...>]

>
> You can laugh it off (and i'm sure you will), but IMHO a threat of
abandonment is tantamount to a death threat to a bird who knows she depends
on you for survival. Personally i would never threaten my bond with my guys
in this way. >>>>

Good grief, Lisa. I believe your motivation for writing this email is
something other than improving training methods.

If my getting in the car and closing the door is so horrid, then everytime a
bird owner leaves the house and leaves the bird alone is also abandonment
and just as "horrid." Every time one sets a bird down on a perch and turns
ones back is a lesser form of abandonment. Every time a misbehaving bird is
briefly put in a cage is abandonment. Everytime fiesty birds are put in an
outdoor aviary is abandonment.

You can call it abandonment if you want, but under your definition there is
not a bird owner alive that has not "abandoned" their bird and probably does
it everyday. BTW, Juba goes almost everywhere with me and is seldom caged
except at night and in the car. Even her aviary always has an entrance to
the house window open. She knew perfectly well if she flew down to me I'd
let her in the car. She was perfectly familiar with the building. It's
like a second home. We have been going there three times a week for
somewhere around a year.

You can call it abandonment. I call it short-term withdrawal of my
attention.

Tana

Since your objective is to pick a fight I probably won't respond to any more
of thie silliness.\

Tana