liz wrote:If he follows you around the house YOU ARE his safety.
I drove to Myrtle Beach to rescue Myrtle and stayed in a motel overnight so she would know me first before she came into this kayos. For a year she lived in a dark dining room that was dead quiet.
I halfway wake up to roll over in bed so I put her little cage on the corner of the bed and opened it. She would not come out but I drew her attention to me with peek-a-boo[. Wile driving back I would say "hold on" every time a made a turn and she learned that meaning. I still use hold on when she is on me and I go in the garage or some place else she is not aloud to be and it works. She has learned to hold on without me saying it which was very good when I walked into the back yard forgetting that she was still attached to me. She learned come'ere from my interaction with Rambo. He would yell Momma come'ere and I would come. After she used the word, she is now able to recognize the word [i]come and I can use come on or are you coming and she responds (when she feels like it). She also says it.
Yes, I am bragging about her but since I don't have educated knowledge about birds I can only tell you what I know that is similar to what you are asking. If someone is standing in a doorway that she wants through she will turn side ways to fit. She can hover for a second and even turn from that position. Yes, I have had her for three years for her to learn, but her learning warms my heart as if my child was learning. A non bird person could never understand the excitement.
Rambo is a pedestrian so I give him flying lessons by standing on the other side of the room with him on my finger. Then I bounce him a little while counting to three and then say fly. It is a whole lot safer than the floor or landing on an animal which has been done.
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