Ready for my close up, Mr DeMille... almost

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Another Salty update. After last nights disastrous training session with Salty, I was expecting him to be uncooperative, but pine nuts win the day. I left out his harness training, considering how badly that went. After our warm up moves we went into the colored ring training. And, WOW, did he do well.
Here is a pic of the trick.

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Salty now accepts blue ring from my hand and places them on the post with the blue ring glued to the base. He is so eager to do this that in the time it takes me to get another ring and the treat, he has already taken another blue ring off the post and put it onto a different post. Remember we are not doing color training yet. He is so eager, he doesn't even want the treat. He is even pulling them off 2 at time because I'm so slow. Putting them on 2 at a time, too. So not quite ready, Mr. Demille, but soon!
 
I love how smart these birds are. How nice that's Salty is so excited about the ring toy :)
 
Al ,when Amazons like something,they don't hold back! :54::D





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That's a good start with Nigel.. you have established with Nigel that certain actions get a reward. Now you can build from there. Remember to give the treats soon as possible after he completes the action,
 
Well done Salty...its hard to get parrot toys like this here but I think Mr Biggles might enjoy this game too so Im glad you included a pic of what the game is like as I think I could make one of them...getting the little rings would be the hard bit but I will check out the kids toy section to see what I come up with next time Im in town. Salty is a Great character and obviously loves this game...way to go Salty Well Done :)
 

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