bittybirds: the blog

Dusty, a Congo African Grey parrot, escaped from his home in Michigan in September 2006. He turned up in Las Vegas seven months later!!

The full story is here.

(Yeah, yeah, I’m two months late posting this.)

I’ve just started out an effort to clicker train the boys. It should be very interesting!

Tonight I just started with getting them used to the concept that “[click] = goodies”. So I started with Piper on top of the cage (since both of them enjoy hanging out there) and clicking, then letting him take a bit of millet from a clump in my hand. Piper seemed to enjoy this, but it had a really noticeable effect on Petrie–he wanted a piece of the action!! After a few minutes the boys traded places. Piper was even more aggressive about trying to horn in on the action. He crawled around the roof of the cage upside down, hoping to snag some dropped millet on its way down I guess. Petrie was not amused. It looks like we’ll need some other area for the “serious” training, but for now it was a fun start.