Working with Salty the last 2 nights has been a real pleasure and showed me just how smart these birds are. Not only has Salty gotten past the totally rotten experience we had on Monday with his Aviator harness, he showed some cognitive thinking.
We have been working about 3 weeks with this trick:
But just using the blue rings, to let him get the idea of putting them onto the posts. Salty would put them onto any post, blue red, yellow, didnt matter.
So on Tuesday night, with out any prompting, I handed him a red ring. And he put onto the red post!! And the blue rings only on the blue post. Smart, right? Gets better. Last night, Wen, we are doing the training with red and blue rings, and I handed him a YELLOW ring, again, no prompting or words. And he put it on the yellow post. In fact all 3 colors he was putting on the correct post, blue, red and yellow ! If my son had not been watching, no one would have believed me! Salty was 4 for 5 for each color, too.
And I pulled out the Aviator harness, figuring we would need to start from scratch with that, he was so tangled up in it, and upset too. Nope, he stuck his head right into the head loop, and let me drape the harness over him, like nothing happened a few nights ago.
He got extra special treats last night!
We have been working about 3 weeks with this trick:
But just using the blue rings, to let him get the idea of putting them onto the posts. Salty would put them onto any post, blue red, yellow, didnt matter.
So on Tuesday night, with out any prompting, I handed him a red ring. And he put onto the red post!! And the blue rings only on the blue post. Smart, right? Gets better. Last night, Wen, we are doing the training with red and blue rings, and I handed him a YELLOW ring, again, no prompting or words. And he put it on the yellow post. In fact all 3 colors he was putting on the correct post, blue, red and yellow ! If my son had not been watching, no one would have believed me! Salty was 4 for 5 for each color, too.
And I pulled out the Aviator harness, figuring we would need to start from scratch with that, he was so tangled up in it, and upset too. Nope, he stuck his head right into the head loop, and let me drape the harness over him, like nothing happened a few nights ago.
He got extra special treats last night!
