Merry Christmas from the Parker Family!

No training updates for this post just a holiday photo for all of our readers!

Rusty the Brittany Spaniel, Marvin the Cockatiel, Moya the Senegal, Louie the Siamese, and Thistle the Bengal!

thrid try is the charm

Today was a fairly successful day with what I am viewing as a good step forward in Marvin’s progress. It all comes down to the reward, and finding the correct reward is crucial to getting an animal trained. With my numerous attempts at finding a training reward I believe that I found something that will work. I ended up going with my first thoughts of using a regular potato chip, Marvin seemed to take to the well and fast. A few more good sessions with clicker/reward recognition and we can move forward onto trick training sessions.

New reward attempt

So I am still trying to find a training reward that Marvin will work for. he seemed to do OK with the chex mix bits, but i really want to find something healthier. So I went out and bought some Terra Sweet Potato chips. Sweet Potatoes are very healthy for birds and they are a chip so I was hoping that Marvin would enjoy them. The down side of the Terra chips is that they are not baked but fried so even though the sweet potato part is healthy there are still many oils that may not be the greatest for Marvin. Any ways here is the video with the results.