This week we were asked two really important questions:

1. Why shouldn’t you leave food in your bird’s cage all day long and if you don’t, what SHOULD you do?

2. How do you put a trick on cue? (Get your bird to do something when YOU ask rather than when the birds feels like it)

Since I am actually in the training process with our blue throated macaw Jinx of putting his talking on cue (when he says the word Bubba which is his first word he has been willing to say in front of people) this was the perfect opportunity for ...

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Told ya I wouldn’t be the screen capture this week!

This video was inspired by the loss of our best Spreecast video we had ever made, and we answered soooo many issues people were having regarding hurdles they couldn’t jump over with clicker training and target training. So here it is, to stay this time!

We answer things like:

1. What if your bird is too distracted to train?

2. What if your bird flies off when you want to train it?

3. What if your bird is afraid of the sound of the clicker?

4. What if your bird is ...

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