Echo's Training Thread

[pacoparrot]

Echo is a 2 1/2 year old female SE Eclectus. I hand fed her from a baby and we are pretty attached. However she will also go to complete strangers without much trouble at all. She is super friendly and even tempered. She is also a good talker when she feels like it. I've been working with her for about a year now on and off and her progress is nothing short of amazing.
Tricks she's mastered include:

• Targeting
• Retrieve
• Coins in Bank
• Stacking nesting cups
• Wave

Tricks we're about to start or are beginning with:

• Wear Aviator Flight Harness
• Recall (Flighted/nonflighted) [started]
• Put dollar bills in a bank [started]

Here are some videos of her tricks.
Echo Piggy Bank - YouTube
Echo Stacking Cups - YouTube
Echo Basketball - YouTube

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By the way can anyone come up with a more gratifying term for her "tricks" while still describing it accurately? I feel like it's inappropriate to refer to her as if she's performing like a circus animal, when it's something she enjoys and craves doing and it's mentally and physical exercising.

 

[GlassOnion]

*Trick training* itself sounds okay to me. Nice progress!!