by Frederica » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:16 pm
Hallo Michael,
how about preperations for the vet?
Barbara Heidenreich has a DVD with that subject.
- "Allowing the handler to touch the bird all mover its body" is a long-long-loooong time training goal in my view!
Drinking different fluids from a syringe (without needle), showing its wings and having them touched/ examined by the handler/vet, dito feet etc.
Then target prcours: Pointingb the TS in different, "difficult" places so that the boird has to follow qucickly.
Learining colors:
First, let the bird touch one specific item (toy, colored builduing brick etc.).
Make him do it on the cue " - color of the item -".
Add another item, then several ones, let him finde the trained color every time.
Train another color.
In the end, you can show him a row of iems like colored building bricks and ask him to show you a succesion of colors.
Train him to fetch items with different colors - throw threee balls and say "Fetch the red ball!".
Train him to land/ step on different places, name them.
Practise to send him there while you stay in one place (Like: Kili, fly on the door! Fly on the sofa! etc.).
Do intelligence excercises with him:
Show him card with dots on ist, from one dot to appr. 5 -7.
Find out, how many he can recognise and distinguish after he gas learned the numbers.
Cover different bowls with different cards (dieffering in the number of dots on them or in color).
Show Kili a card that is identical with the one covering the bowl that hides a treat.
Teach him to play the shell game; teach him to turn around a certain type of shell; teach him to watch for the shell that hides the treat.
Lock him in his cage or let him wait on a perch.
Place a ball/ treat somewhere in the room the ask him to fetch it.
Make ist harder for him; let him wait somewhere, where he cannot see where you are hiding the ball/ treat etc.; but it has to be visible.
let him look for it and take it to you (ball etc.).
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BTW:
Wh does Kili fly so low over the floor?
My budgies always fly rather near the ceiling....
Best,
Frederica
P.S. A lot of inspiration can be found in cat clicker trianing books or videos!