Okay, let's flesh that out. Explain what you mean by they hate sticks? What kind of sticks and in what context? They may be ok with a chopstick if you start out at a distance. We will be shaping this behavior so you can start out a bit away if you need toOooh.. That's going to be a TOUGHIE!! Emma and Sachi hate sticks.
The stick will be used for target training where we will teach the bird to open their beak on a target stick in front of them and eventually, even follow the target stick.Perhaps I am misunderstanding or jumping to conclusions.What will this stick be used for Vicky?
If they hate sticks or are fearful of sticks then we may have to desensitize to them or use a different target, on the other hand the training itself may change their emotional response to sticks
Perfect. Yes, we definitely won't have them stepping onto it.Ah!! I think that will be fine.
I can use chopsticks. I was thinking that you wanted them to step up on the stick.
Please wait for us. I have been trying to encourage people to please wait before moving on that way everyone knows how to move forward correctly and we are all moving forward together.I'm using a craft (popsicle) stick. And being a bad student, I've jumped ahead and started working on targeting.
Ok. What I want you to do is click WAY early like as soon as he looks at it. We can teach him to just follow without the bitejackson just bites the stick and snaps of the end of it lol...though he does follow...because he wants to destroy
