- All right.
You ready girl?
Good job.
Little bite.
Just a little bite.
You're like, what are you doing?
What are you doing to me?
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Ready?
Yeah, we're moving today.
Good job.
Hey.
- [Dave] Did Melinda come by?
- No. Why?
- Oh, thought I saw her on her bike,
like driving away.
- [Jamieleigh] Melinda on her bike?
- Thought so, but she's far away.
So I didn't know.
- [Jamieleigh] Oh, she's just like riding
her bike by herself.
- Someone was, it looked like it could have been her.
Hi, how's it going?
- [Jamieleigh] She's actually moving quicker today
than usual.
Can't you see?
- This is quicker.
(Jamieleigh laughing)
- [Jamieleigh] Yeah.
- You're gonna have to like put
(Dave buzzing)
like fast forward.
- I started cutting out the waiting time for people.
I kept it in in the beginning
and then I was like, all right.
- [Dave] Oh, that's just torture.
- Yeah.
There we go.
Yeah.
Does any of this stuff excite you?
Wanna try it for that?
Wanna try it?
Good job.
Try some of that.
Would you get, nothing?
You done yet?
You ready?
I can use that little seed mix
for you if you want.
You're all excited about it?
I'll use that.
You like that?
You come.
You bailing.
You're bailing.
You come?
Do you remember this?
Remember, we just do step up
and right back off and I will set you down.
Good.
Good job.
Good girl. Good girl.
You remember it now?
You grabbing a flak seed.
Is that what you're excited about?
Ready?
You come.
You come
So close.
Come on.
Something about,
I almost feel like something about
when I crouch down and ask her, you come.
Yeah.
It's like when I crouch down that body language,
I almost wonder if I've accidentally made it the cue somehow
versus just being able to stand up straight and ask,
which is probably a problem.
Got your tail.
Sorry, your tail is so cool.
I'm gonna turn you a little bit
and get a better angle.
Whoop. Whoop.
All right.
Zoom in on you a little bit.
Okay.
You come.
Good job.
That was me standing up straight.
So that's cool.
I wasn't all crouched over.
I'm gonna try to keep that.
Good job.
Just kiss you on the head.
You done?
You come.
Wow.
Good girl.
You good?
That was cool.
All on her own, she decided to like stay
and just kinda hang out a little bit,
which was really nice.
Nice and new.
Oh.
That was lovely.
Gonna do it again?
You come.
Good job.
Again?
Good job.
You can go back any time you want.
You're gonna stay on my hand though.
Good job.
So she's actually looking
at like how can I get a double reward
on your hand?
Which is really nice
cause that means she's looking to see how,
what else she can do for it.
You come.
Good job.
Wanna go back?
All right.
Gosh, I'm getting a way better response
from this little seed mix.
This is my, this is actually blueberry's seed mix,
recipe but it doesn't have the millet in it.
So this one actually doesn't have millet in it.
I'm gonna see if I can progressively
get her to walk over to me to step up
instead of me constantly coming to her.
I think that would be pretty cool.
Do you wanna come?
Wow, that was awesome.
She actually just did it that time.
That was so cool.
All right, I'm gonna turn you a little bit.
Hopefully they can see this better.
It was super duper cool.
Not doing it right now.
You come.
Okay.
I'm gonna allow failure on this one
cause I'm usually,
I've been kind of coaxing, encouraging,
waiting for her.
Now I'm gonna start incorporating
some missed opportunities.
Do you wanna come?
Come.
Good job.
Hanging out.
Good girl.
And I like that she's turning around quickly too.
Like giving me her attention.
Normally she's definitely not caring so much.
Okay.
Still not super fast though.
I hear Chrissy, she's whistling.
Get anything?
Yeah, you did.
(Jamieleigh whistles)
You ready?
Come.
Good job.
Nice.
So not only is she giving me all that
like interest and stuff,
but she's also not in a hurry
to get off of me anymore.
Like in the very beginning,
especially with this kind of training
with this sort of temperament with a bird,
so much of the reinforcement
comes from being able to leave you
and get back onto the perch
and get on their safe zone, away from you, which sucks.
Like as a feeling, it sucks.
So as you start to see the bird
not be in such a rush to get off of you,
gosh, it's such a cool sign
and it's a really, really good feeling too.
Feeling so much better about it.
You come.
Good job.
Yeah.
She's like leaning
but she doesn't necessarily just go right off,
which is super cool.
The other thing is I'm not coming in right here
so much anymore.
I'm starting to come off to the sides
to see if she'll make a little extra effort
to take one step or whatever it takes to get onto me
versus me making it so 100% easy for her.
You come.
Yeah, so do you see how she had to take a step
to the right to do that?
It's just, yeah, it's really, really cool.
And here she's not even leaning to get off of me.
She's actually leaning towards me,
which is really super cool.
She's not showing any anxious behavior to like,
want to be back on a perch.
She's actually leaning again, towards me.
So really, really cool.
Yeah.
She wants to stay on.
You wanna stay on, look at you.
You're doing so good.
So at the very end there,
she started to get a little uncomfortable
cause she's just like, oh wow,
I've never done it for this long before,
had this much praise.
And I started moving around
because I didn't want her going all the way up here.
So I want her more towards my hand.
But yeah, that looked great.
Wanna come.
Yeah.
So she took a step there to come to me.
Still not in a rush to get off of me, which is great.
I'm so proud of you.
You're doing awesome. (phone dings)
I think somebody is trying to get ahold of me though.
I think I only have a couple reps left
and then probably just gonna let her hang out
while I do some work.
I think she might actually be done now.
And I'm just gonna let her hang out out here.
Right.
Why don't you hang out.
So she can fly around this screened in area.
I've seen her get around here.
So she knows how to get herself
over to those cages and stuff.
I have told you guys before
but just as a to reiterate, so she's clipped,
but she has like her nice primary flight feathers
on the very outside.
So I think she has like the last two or three maybe.
I'm not totally sure, but,
and then she has clipped from there,
but she can still get around pretty good.
So, and I know her owner is letting her feathers
grow out and everything.
So yeah, I think she's gonna do good.
I'm gonna have to hide my stash of treats though.
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