VIDEO of Baby giving me aring..

September 10th, 2007
This is a video of Baby doing a great trick of giving me a ring. Actually, I ask her if she's got any change. LOL.
I did this by clicker training. It's helped me gain her trust with my hands. Considering her abusive past, and I'm no professional, this is good....I think. LOL. She actually appears to enjoy doing it.
This is the sequence I used :
Cleo then TOUCHED the shower ring..click/treat (c/t)Cleo opend her beak and took the shower ring....c/tCleo held the shower ring in her mouth....c/tCleo let me touch the cup to the shower ring when it's in her beak...c/tCleo then held the shower ring in her beak, and moved one foot towards the cup and touched it wth the ring..c/t.Cleo allowed me to put the cup under the ring in her mouth...c/tCleo dropped the shower ring in the cup when I pushed upward a little bit with the cup...c/tAnd finally, until she walked across the cage with the ring in her mouth and put it in the cup...BIG c/t!