Conure Your Happy Healthy Pet

Your Happy Healthy Pet The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly! Outgoing, cheerful, inquisitive little acrobats, conures are entertaining companion birds. They're small in size, but big in personality. This guide helps you make your conure a part of your family, with information on: * Choosing your conure * Creating a safe, stimulating home for your bird * Everyday care, including feeding and bathing * Clipping your conure's wings--why, when, and how * Training tips, from getting your conure comfortable with you to potty training to teaching tricks such as Ride in the Wagon, Nod Your Head, and Play Dead * Teaching your conure to talk Conures are often cuddly and almost always wonderfully affectionate, so you'll get a lot of love from your little feathered friend!

JULIE RACH MANCINI got her first pet, a parakeet named Charlie, when she was six, and had Sinbad, an African grey parrot with special needs, for ten years. She assisted in preparing the first issue of Birds USA and became editor of Bird Talk in 1992. She's a popular writer of pet-oriented materials.