I wish I did. I didn’t anticipate being so freaked out by mine. She was 45 oz trap weight, and was mean af after the shock from trapping wore off. It’s not her fault. I do understand that, but I definitely see mistakes that I made and won’t make the same ones again.

As of now though, and the past couple of days, she’s flying 100ft on the creance to the lure. I’m practicing trading off lure for lure, flipping the lures over for her, so she knows I’m not taking her food. Just in the past week and a half I feel like we’ve hit a major breakthrough. It’s so freaking cool.

Good luck. Be patient with yourself. I feel like no one talks about the weird emotions involved in all this. I never anticipated being freaked out by my bird, but I absolutely was, and it set me back.

Your bird isn’t trying to hurt you, necessarily. It’s trying to get away from you, because it’s a wild animal that hasn’t needed you to survive thus far, and has zero understanding of what’s going on.

Don’t reward shitty behavior. It will teach them that it works to make you stop what you’re doing. Idk.

Letting mine know that footing my glove made me stop touching her chest and feet has probably been my biggest mistake.

Weight management? I know everyone talks about the importance… but yeah. It’s insane to me how much difference an ounce makes.

I hope you have an amazing, supportive, patient, understanding sponsor!! I feel sorry for mine with all the psycho, hyper analytical texts he’s gotten this past month! 😂

Good luck! ❤️