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Huge way to keep your bird interested and entertainedPlay "clicker" with your bird!
Clicker training! It's been around for a long time and used frequently in places like zoos or animal parks where professional training is done. I always associated this type of training with tricks and accrobatic circus stuff so I never really paid much attention to it's use with parrots. I met a nice lady from Germany on a bird forum and she got me just interested enough to give it a go. Here is a copy of an e-mail I sent her after my first attempt with the clicker thing.
My first attempt
Ok Ann,
I'm a believer! I got your E-book and started reading...... I had to try this so I went over to a petsmart grabbed a clicker and said to myself "I'm going to try this right now." I have a 2 year old red fronted that I've casually been working with over the past year. He's been coming along pretty good and hangs with the rest of the flock so no hurry right.... I take some ground nuts over to him and he eyes me.... he loves em but will very cautiously come over grab one and hurry back to his spot. I take the clicker out and just before he grabs another I click-it.... he eyes me again like "whats up?" then I reach to him with my writing pen which I have done in the past to kinda play with his beak.... he touches it with his upper beak and immediately I "click" and hand him a nut.... We did this for a couple minutes and he's not running away anymore... hmmm.... the phone rings so I go into the office. I come back out show him the pen and he runs over to touch it! "click" and he's now in control of his own little vending machine! Ha! Ha! I'm laughing now right.... hell he's gained more ground in those few min. than in a whole year and I am deffinately not a clicker trainer. Im fascinated and anxious to try more. Im looking forward to reading the rest of the book cause I have a number of birds with different problems that need some tweaking. More later.... gotta go...
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