Hey all,
I discovered yesterday that Luna's flight feathers are finally grown out. She got spooked in my yard and flew across the entirety of it and I think the only reason I didn't have a hard time recovering her is because she crash-landed in a hedge and that arrested her flight.
I don't think Luna's ever been flighted in her 10 years, and the only time's I've seen her flutter/fly is when she gets spooked. I want to keep her flighted, but I am super super worried that she's going to seriously injure or kill herself. It's obvious she does not know how to land, and so everytime she's been in the air shes crash landed on something, and miraculously not gotten hurt as of yet.
She's not trained, and I'm trying to start clicker training from the very beginning again because I realize I'm not going to get anywhere with her unless she understands some sort of system. The farthest we've gotten with the harness is just eating a seed through the head hole.
I really don't want to clip her again but I'm not sure how to proceed. I don't want to do any "flapping" exercises because they make her take off immediately and possibly crash into something. She also hasn't tried flying anywhere on her own either.
How do I get her to figure it out in order to avoid clipping her wings for safety?