charmedbyekkie
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Cairo is my infinite source of joy. (dead serious)
But I can't keep up with him!
It took him 1 minute to learn 'shake', 5 minutes to learn 'wave', two 10 minute sessions for 'put' (in terms of stacking cups) to become solid, less than 1 minute for 'give', 10 tries for 'flip'. We don't add new tricks every day - I like to get him confident about doing the same tricks in different environments. So we only about once every two weeks or so (basically whenever I can think of how to teach him something new, and 'how-to-teach' is the trickiest part for me).
He loves learning new things. He enjoys practicing tricks yes, but his eagerness goes through the roof when he first 'gets' a new trick. He's currently flying around the house with his cups, stacking them and giving them to us. I'm so unbelievably proud of him - mind you, I kept my expectations to thinking that he'd be an antisocial, slow-learner, only say "hello" kind of bird.
I'm lucky I live so close to China, where I can get the exact same parrot trick toys, but for the price of 2-10 USD (Cairo's grandparronts in the US paid double to triple that price for when they bought him toys). He already has the stacking cups and the shapes/abacus box. We'll probably get him a ring toss set, a basketball hoop, matching colour circles and box set, and anything else we can find. My big concern is that, with these toys sets, the only new thing he'd be learning is mainly colour association and, for the shape/abacus box, shape association.
I've seen Salty's videos and have been inspired by them (though a deck of card aren't really common/kosher here and Cairo is not a touchy-feely ekkie to roll over).
Any other suggestions on what tricks to teach? Don't worry - recall training is a daily thing as well, and harness too. But what new things to excite him with?
But I can't keep up with him!
It took him 1 minute to learn 'shake', 5 minutes to learn 'wave', two 10 minute sessions for 'put' (in terms of stacking cups) to become solid, less than 1 minute for 'give', 10 tries for 'flip'. We don't add new tricks every day - I like to get him confident about doing the same tricks in different environments. So we only about once every two weeks or so (basically whenever I can think of how to teach him something new, and 'how-to-teach' is the trickiest part for me).
He loves learning new things. He enjoys practicing tricks yes, but his eagerness goes through the roof when he first 'gets' a new trick. He's currently flying around the house with his cups, stacking them and giving them to us. I'm so unbelievably proud of him - mind you, I kept my expectations to thinking that he'd be an antisocial, slow-learner, only say "hello" kind of bird.
I'm lucky I live so close to China, where I can get the exact same parrot trick toys, but for the price of 2-10 USD (Cairo's grandparronts in the US paid double to triple that price for when they bought him toys). He already has the stacking cups and the shapes/abacus box. We'll probably get him a ring toss set, a basketball hoop, matching colour circles and box set, and anything else we can find. My big concern is that, with these toys sets, the only new thing he'd be learning is mainly colour association and, for the shape/abacus box, shape association.
I've seen Salty's videos and have been inspired by them (though a deck of card aren't really common/kosher here and Cairo is not a touchy-feely ekkie to roll over).
Any other suggestions on what tricks to teach? Don't worry - recall training is a daily thing as well, and harness too. But what new things to excite him with?
