How to Train Parrot the Fetch Trick
Ok, so first off, this is footage and training from before Truman's injury. I was originally going to have a much more in depth article/video about training fetch to a greater extent than shown here. We got up to 8 training sessions with Truman before he got injured and I was thinking by the 10th one he would be able to run around on the floor or table to get stuff for me. However, with the footage I have to date, the training was not quite completed and his injury will delay the completion of this training for a while.
Since I have too much footage to fit a 10 minute youtube segment anyway, I'm breaking this up into 3 parts: getting the bird to hold an object and put it in cup, getting a parrot to walk around a table to put object in cup, and getting the parrot to go get the object itself and bring it to the cup or hand. This first section I posted an article/video about is getting the parrot to hold the object meant for fetching and then drop it at the presentation of a bowl. Getting more motion into the trick I will cover later. So enjoy this article about the basics of teaching a parrot to fetch.