by Dave & Karen » Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:15 am
try recording the bark, and when you tell them to bark, playback the recording, this might help speed up associating the command with what you want them to do.
Our cockatiel picked up on me telling him to say "tweet tweet tweet" and "chirp chirp chirp" so now instead of tweeting or chirping, he says the words (our parrotlet also does this), he also whistles the Adams famliy theme song and the Andy Griffith theme song on cue by me asking him to sing, then srarting whisteling the song so he knows which one I want him to whistle and he'll take over where I leave off, but I used a recording to teach him the songs.
Most phones have some kind of recorder app built in so this part's easy, just get your dog to bark and record it, then ask your birds to bark and play the recording for them, once they start to bark on command, it's time to stop playing the recording to see if they'll do it just off command, then reward them when they figure it out.