An update on Salty.
Over the past weekend, Salty must have, again, bruised muscles for his beak, because he spent 1/2 of Sat and pretty much all Sunday, sitting quietly on his perches, not playing and really hesitant Sat night in our training session. Hesitant with tricks involving his beak, specifically. We went to my vets refered 24/7 emergency clinic Sun afternoon, however they were rubbish as far as a diagnosis, not having their bird expert on call. Sent home with some pain meds, however they did send the report direcct to my regular vet, and Salty has a follow up visit on Monday, and instructions to monitor his behavior closely til then. He is much improved, but will go to his appointment.
As far as tricks go, well he gets bored with tricks if he does them every night, so I have been expanding his range of tricks and what we do with them. SO for example, his set of 8 multicolored stacking cup, I will lay them all out, and he has to sort a group of multicolored mini wiffleballs into they propriate colored cups. He has been making progress on several complicated tricks, like riding his bird bicycle and his A.B, C's.
I also have some new tricks and props to introduce; a small plastic telephone for him to pick up the receiver and say Hello; A ramp for his little skate board; a wooden grist mill type of toy, and a few others. Of all of them, the telephone will be the hardest; its such a different type of trick for him and the phone is larger that I expected. We shall see!
