Mika Pi Learning to Retrieve

[1996azcpa]

Mika's good! My sun conure would have played with the toy and screamed at my hand! He still has a lot to learn. So far I have taught him to wave.

[3ponymous]

Sun conures are very clever. I don't have any doubt that yours can be taught to retrieve too! It's just a matter of him figuring out what you want :)

[sadisticotaku]

So cute!!

[bscavotto1]

She knew what the delayed click was for though because she went right back into training. I was hoping you would click for that and when you did I wanted to c/t you too!

[3ponymous]

LOL!

Where's my treat?

[bscavotto1]

Mika is so cute! She did really well with the new area and new distractions. Around minute 2:40 when you came back into the room you did a great job lowering your criteria and rewarding for the ring touching your hand once to get her back into training! Great job!

[3ponymous]

Thanks! You can tell I had to think about it because that click was really delayed. I'm very proud of her for handling the upped criteria so well.

[TheBellaSaraCompany]

What kinds of treats do you like to use for rewards? I was thinking of using cheerios when we start to train ours.

[3ponymous]

I use sunflower seeds for new/hard tricks and safflower seeds for tricks that my birds already have a lot of practice with. They'll work for both, but sunflower seeds are much higher "value" items that I save for when I want them to be extra motivated.