Post by Scratchpost on May 26, 2023 6:31:56 GMT -7
My husband and I use clicker training with Aka. We use it when he goes to the toilet in the designated spot, when he says "close the door" when he see's a door is open, and when he gets into his sleep cage at night without trying to bite our fingers off.
Because of this, I always have the clicker on me or it's on my husband's computer table when he's home in case I am out of the room when Aka goes to the toilet or says "Close the door" etc. Friday's are a bit different because I clean the house on a Friday so I don't always have the clicker with me because I don't want it falling into a mob bucket or whatever. I tend to misplace the clicker in this case because I don't leave it in one spot.
Today, the same thing happened. I was out of the room and Aka went to the toilet so I came to the lounge to use the clicker (I start with praise as soon he does something clicker related and click after I finish speaking), but I couldn't find it, anywhere. I think I must have looked for about 15 minutes and I kept asking Aka has he seen his clicker. His first reaction was to look at my pockets (where I normally keep it), but I said that it's not there so he started looking around. After about a minute of this, he climbed to the other side of the cage and started staring at my husband's computer table. I knew it wasn't on the table, but the table has a drawer.
I opened the drawer and the clicker was in the drawer! I must have accidentally put it there when I was tidying up and Aka knew that it might be there since it wasn't in any of the other normal places. It was so awesome, he was so chuffed with himself when I pulled it out (and clicked). I didn't think of looking there but Aka did.
Clever bird.
