I began clicker training with Tiki, my caique, on Saturday. I started out by clicking every time she took millet from me.
Yesterday I got her to the point of hitting the target on cue for a treat. I'll probably do that for a bit more until I can progress to getting her to follow the target from inside her cage. She will reach for it already but I don't think she's ready to follow it around.
Tiki has a lot of fear and trust issues stemming from being cage bound and teased by children for 2-3 years before I adopted her. She was hand fed but it's not very evident except that she is not a bitter or aggressive in any way. She is no longer cage bound but is still very fearful about people. Tiki is actually already acting a bit more relaxed around me. Even though I was right next to her cage doing the training, she stretched her wings our several times and shook her tail feathers out and did not do any alarm calls.
Yesterday I got her to the point of hitting the target on cue for a treat. I'll probably do that for a bit more until I can progress to getting her to follow the target from inside her cage. She will reach for it already but I don't think she's ready to follow it around.
Tiki has a lot of fear and trust issues stemming from being cage bound and teased by children for 2-3 years before I adopted her. She was hand fed but it's not very evident except that she is not a bitter or aggressive in any way. She is no longer cage bound but is still very fearful about people. Tiki is actually already acting a bit more relaxed around me. Even though I was right next to her cage doing the training, she stretched her wings our several times and shook her tail feathers out and did not do any alarm calls.