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TLDR: struggling with frequent regurgitation. What to do when it comes up during clicker training?
I “got” my lovebird Lola a clicker and some training toys for Christmas. We are on our third day of clicker training and I have some questions about regurgitation. Lola regurgitates a lot. She is my first and only bird and I’ve had her almost three years. Her diet consists of very nutritious homemade chop, Zupreem Fruit Flavor pellets, nutriberries and millet as treats, and the occasional bit of bread, cracker, new fruit, or seed. She bathes almost nightly with me, gets minimum 2 hours out of cage daily, and sleeps 10-12 hours. I don’t know her gender. I think the behavior has more to do with happiness/excitement than sexual arousal, as I make sure neither I nor my family pet anything below the neck or accept regurgitation. She often regurgitates when her favorite people approach her cage or randomly when she’s out and being interacted with/perched upon someone. Her regurgitation routine will consist of any of the following: making click sounds repeatedly, scratching beak rapidly with her foot, pushing food up from the crop and placing it on something/someone only to eat it up again, spinning and spinning, and wagging tail. She does not bite, hump, masterb8, put herself “in position”, shred papers/store them in her tail or act possessive/aggressive. I try to ignore this behavior and wait for it to pass. I was hoping clicker training would be a good way to combat this behavior. We are only on day 3 of clicker training and I’m finding that she engages in this regurgitation behavior during training sessions. We work for a MAX of 10 minutes at a time, so far only once day. What should I do when she does this? I’ve been waiting for it to pass/trying to draw her attention to something else like a favorite toy or stepping up when it happens, to then resume training when it passes.
I have been reading @BraveheartDogs clicker training classroom and watching bird tricks and parrot wizard videos. Right now we are working on touching the target consistently, coming to me from a distance, and stepping down from my shoulder onto a perch. She steps up very well and is good at flying to me, but only does it when she feels like it. What should I do about the regurgitation during training?
TLDR: struggling with frequent regurgitation. What to do when it comes up during clicker training?
I “got” my lovebird Lola a clicker and some training toys for Christmas. We are on our third day of clicker training and I have some questions about regurgitation. Lola regurgitates a lot. She is my first and only bird and I’ve had her almost three years. Her diet consists of very nutritious homemade chop, Zupreem Fruit Flavor pellets, nutriberries and millet as treats, and the occasional bit of bread, cracker, new fruit, or seed. She bathes almost nightly with me, gets minimum 2 hours out of cage daily, and sleeps 10-12 hours. I don’t know her gender. I think the behavior has more to do with happiness/excitement than sexual arousal, as I make sure neither I nor my family pet anything below the neck or accept regurgitation. She often regurgitates when her favorite people approach her cage or randomly when she’s out and being interacted with/perched upon someone. Her regurgitation routine will consist of any of the following: making click sounds repeatedly, scratching beak rapidly with her foot, pushing food up from the crop and placing it on something/someone only to eat it up again, spinning and spinning, and wagging tail. She does not bite, hump, masterb8, put herself “in position”, shred papers/store them in her tail or act possessive/aggressive. I try to ignore this behavior and wait for it to pass. I was hoping clicker training would be a good way to combat this behavior. We are only on day 3 of clicker training and I’m finding that she engages in this regurgitation behavior during training sessions. We work for a MAX of 10 minutes at a time, so far only once day. What should I do when she does this? I’ve been waiting for it to pass/trying to draw her attention to something else like a favorite toy or stepping up when it happens, to then resume training when it passes.
I have been reading @BraveheartDogs clicker training classroom and watching bird tricks and parrot wizard videos. Right now we are working on touching the target consistently, coming to me from a distance, and stepping down from my shoulder onto a perch. She steps up very well and is good at flying to me, but only does it when she feels like it. What should I do about the regurgitation during training?
