Well, I'm back posting... I feel bad for neglecting this blog, but have found that training myself (going back to school) has been takin...

Birds in the wild do not spend all day hanging out in the same tree... no matter how enriching that tree may be, so I have always thought th...

Today was a good day for my birds... or maybe that should be a good day for me being able to enrich my birds? For some reason I have lived i...

I have been hearing a lot lately of people saying "I don't want an older bird because it might have been wild caught, I want a hand...

I really love working with my animals using positive reinforcement. Although working out how to reinforce my leopard geckos in such a way th...

Well, I must apologise for how long it's taken for me to get back posting here. For nearly two months I have barely been online due to a...

Time for a training update... it's been long enough! Lucha is still in his hormonal amazon season and is very difficult to work with. I ...

It's that time of year again and last week marked the first puffy dance of the season for my Lilac Crowned Amazon Lucha. The recipient w...

Training has been a little slow the past couple of days, but there are still updates! Marnie has been learning to target to an acrylic wand....

Today was one of those days where I woke up coughing (remains of a chest infection and vindictive asthma) and decided to do as little as pos...

Things have been going well on the training front in my flock :) Marnie has had two sessions learning "Shake" and had gotten the h...

In Texas this winter the weather has been imitating a yoyo, with a rotating change between warm weather with relative humidity (RH) around ...

I am continuing to work on getting Marnie to pay closer attention to the specific behavior I am asking for as opposed to just offering the f...

Well having a chest infection is getting a lot done at my house. Not only have I finally got this blog up and running (I've only been pu...

Here's a little bit about the green man whose name graces this blog... Lucha Lucha came to me in December 2006 and was not in the best o...

Welcome to the blog! This blog is called Lucha's Choice, because Lucha (that's the handsome Lilac Crowned Amazon in the picture at t...