Re: [Freeflight] Now: Food Management

[Nate Waddoups <thoughts@...>]

 On 9/19/05, Emily <toozoo@...> wrote:

> As Chris B. said, I just haven't found strict food management / weight 
> management to be necessary with my freeflyers. It may, as Jim D. said, 
> depend on the bird. I did give it some serious thought while working on 
> encouraging Bartie Caique to fly, wondering if that would accelerate the 
> process. But since we have nothing but time, I saw no need to go to such 
> extremes.

Seems to me that there's two distinct reasons for people wanting to use
weight management... it increases motivation, and then:

1) the increased motivation accelerates the training process;

2) the increased motivation makes the already-trained behaviors more
reliable in distracting environments (e.g. the great outdoors)

I don't care about (1) but (2) still makes it mighty attractive. 

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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
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