Clicker/target training and flighted recall - for Jim/Amymybluefront

[chris-md]

As promised, I’ve started the training! I’ll be updating this thread with the new videos.

This first video is the very start of clicker training, called “charging the clicker”, teaching the bird that *click* means good stuff. But we don’t like clickers so we use WORDS in lieu of a clicker. This is the first of six total sessions I’ll do in this part of the training. Let me know if you want a video of any of those. They’ll be identical to this one.

Note on this video: He JUST got home from his vacation with grandma a couple hours ago, and he’s not very happy. You can see he’s just not interested. Im almost certain I rushed into this a bit soon, but he’s been cooped up in a cage at my moms because of cats so I really wanted to get him out and interacting. Necessity trumps interest here.

[ame="https://youtu.be/ukBCBmZninc"]Parrot clicker training without a clicker, the beginning of flighted recall - YouTube[/ame]

 

[chris-md]

Just bumping so Jim sees

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Just bumping so Jim sees

Got it Chris...thanks!





Jim

 

[chris-md]

Just FYI, I’ve got a couple more charging sessions before I can start target training. We’ve also got houseguests coming in 2 days for the weekend. Look for the next installment early next week.