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	<title>Best in Flock - Life with a Sun Conure</title>
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	<description>Updates and Musings About Life with a Sun Conure</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Video of Sun Conure and His Ball Trick</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/sun-conure-ball-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another attempt to capture Stewie on video. Better than our previous video clip, I think. 
The &#8220;put the ball in the cup trick&#8221; was the first big &#8220;stupid parlor trick&#8221; this little sun conure learned, but when we started training he was still pretty bitey; in fact, he&#8217;d reach around training props just to bite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Parrot the Right Pet for You?</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/parrot-the-right-pet-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parrot Books and Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently invited to write a guest post by the good people at PetKnows, a blog about cats and dogs&#8230; and now parrots.
The post is called 5 Things to Consider Before Getting a Bird. and I talk about, you guessed it, things someone should consider if they are thinking of getting a parrot.

Since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Heidenreich Has a Blog!</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/barbara-heidenreich-has-a-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 01:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Parrot Books and Resources]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[parrot behaviors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Heidenreich, author of The Parrot Problem Solver and noted parrot trainer for many years, has a blog.  I started this blog because there seemed to be a real dearth of high-quality blogs about parrots (that weren&#8217;t just thinly disguised fronts for peddling expensive and questionable parrot training products). Sure, lots of people mentioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Wayne&#8217;s Back in Business</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/waynes-bottlebrush-gyms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird Toys n' Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Conure Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bottle brush]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[parrot play stand]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[parrot playgym]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[waynes bottle brush play gyms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After being MIA for a few weeks, WaynesParrotStuff.com is live on the Web again. Wayne updated his site to let everyone know that he is now working with The Golden Cockatoo to distribute his bottlebrush gyms. This will leave him free just to build his parrot playstands while the Golden Cockatoo deals with taking orders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Parrot Won&#8217;t Play with Toys?</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/your-parrot-wont-play-with-toys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One question that seems to come up a lot (at least based on Google searches that drive traffic to this site), is about pet birds not playing with toys.
Q: Why won&#8217;t my parrot play with his toys?
It&#8217;s possible your parrot doesn&#8217;t know how to play with toys. If he&#8217;s never learned, your pet bird may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff My Conure Likes</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/stuff-my-conure-likes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird Toys n' Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bird toys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[conures]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d compile another list of things my conure likes. Mind you, this is only Stewie-approved stuff&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t include things I think he ought to like, things I&#8217;ve purchased for him and he&#8217;s not interested in or things I just think you ought to have in case of birdie emergencies.
The list may expand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skateboarding Birds: Budgies and &#8216;Tiels</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/skateboarding-birds-budgies-and-tiels/</link>
		<comments>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/skateboarding-birds-budgies-and-tiels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Parrot Videos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stewie's Feathered Friends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bird skateboard]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[cockatiel skateboard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think only larger parrots can do cool prop tricks? Think again:
First, the noob: training a cockatiel to step onto a skateboard

Day 3: Cockatiel pushing off on a skateboard

Skateboarding cockatiel catches air

More skateboarding cockatiels

Cute budgies showing off their skateboard moves



Advanced skater budgie (sorry, couldn&#8217;t embed)
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		<title>Stewie Demonstrates Targeting</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/stewie-demonstrates-targeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still a terrible cinematographer, but I figured I&#8217;d go ahead and post this anyway. I wheeled Stewie&#8217;s playstand in front of the computer (with a built-in camera) and did a couple reps of targeting. Because the target stick is a black chopstick and the background is basically black, you often can&#8217;t see it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOLbirdz</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/lolbirdz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Silly Bird Things]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[lolbirds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
More from LOLcats
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		<title>Teaching My Parrot to Fetch: Step 1</title>
		<link>http://bestinflock.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/teaching-my-parrot-to-fetch-step-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mphung</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[featch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[parrot tricks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[retrieve]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teaching tricks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[trick training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I pulled this old draft out of my archives. It&#8217;s from late last year, but I thought I&#8217;d go ahead and publish it now, even though he already knows how to retrieve and put the ball in his cup.  
After very fast progress with targeting, we hit a bit of a bump moving on [...]]]></description>
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