by Michael » Mon May 28, 2012 10:37 am
When you follow a "training minded" approach year round and work on teaching a new trick here and there, the parrot is super accustomed to training and learning. Even just 10 minutes a day 4 out of 7 days a week but consistently long term... then when you need to teach something new to parrot (like harness) it just takes a few days like teaching any other trick. But then there are people who "don't believe in training" and want to "let their parrot do whatever it wants." From that approach it can easily take 3 months to a year to harness train because you have to start everything completely from scratch (presence, clicker, target, tame, tricks, diet, trust, history, harness). This is why I recommend everyone to perform basic training and taming with their parrots to maintain tameness for when you need to teach a practical behavior.