Hi
I am new in this forum and sorry for my english i am from Denmark.
i have a budgerigar named Cesar.
He is 1 year old and very tame.
I am home all day with him and his cage is allways open so he has access to my appartment all day. When we go to sleep i close his cage.
I try to make some tricks with him.
I use a clicker (Been doing clicker traning on my cat (died 2 years ago) with lot of success)
He is very good at target traning we moved on from target a stick to target fingers and other objects.
But he will not go to far for the stick if i move it to far away so we are working on that.
So far he can 'wave' and 'turn' ('turn' he seem to forget quickly so i try to train that alot with him)
On this video you can see me train 'put an item in the bucket' but it is not going very well.
He does not seem to get the idea. When i place the bucket to the left or right he just toss the item around and something he is lucky and it ends in the bucket.
Any idea what i can do to make him understand?
Also Cesar is afraid of EVERYTHING NEW.
I figured out if i pretend to eat/tast the object and useing my target command 'touch' he is more likely to wanna see what i am holding but it is a battle of will every time.
Any idea what i can do to make him wanna explore new things?
Cesar is also afraid of standing on tables which makes it hard to make new tricks.
I try to offer him millet while he is on the table but he just eats it quickly and flies away.
Any ideas what i can do?
sorry for the long text i hope you can understand me
/Kaja