Lauraj
Regular Member
Good evening everybody!
As you know i have an African grey who is now 6 and half months old. He is fantastic and has settled in brilliant with us, to say he has been in our home for 5 weeks i am very proud of his progress.
He steps up and down with ease now and when he is somewhere he will put his foot out to us and stare or whistle (sometimes shouts Laura) until we offer him our hand/arm for him to sit on us or for us to move him from sofa to cage etc (not flighted due to breeder clipping and wings are starting to grow back in, YAY!) He even steps from our arm into his cage when we tell him to go back when he needs to be in his cage and he does this without resisting. He will step on us from the top of his cage and higher point which im so happy with, as all this was a problem at the start and he would not entertain us, as expected!
I feel this smart young boy has conquered the step up/down and will do this with my parents who he sees every other day. He has a number of foraging toys and also has a toy out of his cage where he has to open lids for pieces of fruit and when he doesn't tip it upside down (whilst laughing) figures this out in seconds.
He is talking non stop and so so smart, i feel im not challenging his mind as much as I could be with training.
I don't expect him to do party tricks but he seems to always want to learn and just wondering if any members have any good training ideas or fun ways to train this little guy. He tried to fly to me the other day and this resulted in me very scratched but a very happy bird. I hope he will take to recall when he can fly but know we have a long way to go yet! I never realised how smart their beautiful minds were!
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
As you know i have an African grey who is now 6 and half months old. He is fantastic and has settled in brilliant with us, to say he has been in our home for 5 weeks i am very proud of his progress.
He steps up and down with ease now and when he is somewhere he will put his foot out to us and stare or whistle (sometimes shouts Laura) until we offer him our hand/arm for him to sit on us or for us to move him from sofa to cage etc (not flighted due to breeder clipping and wings are starting to grow back in, YAY!) He even steps from our arm into his cage when we tell him to go back when he needs to be in his cage and he does this without resisting. He will step on us from the top of his cage and higher point which im so happy with, as all this was a problem at the start and he would not entertain us, as expected!
I feel this smart young boy has conquered the step up/down and will do this with my parents who he sees every other day. He has a number of foraging toys and also has a toy out of his cage where he has to open lids for pieces of fruit and when he doesn't tip it upside down (whilst laughing) figures this out in seconds.
He is talking non stop and so so smart, i feel im not challenging his mind as much as I could be with training.
I don't expect him to do party tricks but he seems to always want to learn and just wondering if any members have any good training ideas or fun ways to train this little guy. He tried to fly to me the other day and this resulted in me very scratched but a very happy bird. I hope he will take to recall when he can fly but know we have a long way to go yet! I never realised how smart their beautiful minds were!
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!