- Hey guys, welcome back to Monte's
in home consultation part three.
Now one of the interesting things
that we haven't yet mentioned,
and by the way if you haven't seen part one or part two,
I will leave links in the description,
so you might wanna go back and catch up.
But one one of the things we never talked about
is flight with Monte.
Now, we were told that he has never flown before,
and one of the things that Zee described to me was so
unique, that I wasn't even sure if
I was understanding her correctly and I was like,
can you just show me what you mean?
So I'm gonna show you what Monte does
when he feels a little bit of wind under his wings,
and I want you guys to tell me if you have ever
seen a bird do this before, so leave it in the comments,
pay close attention to his body position and everything,
I had never seen this before.
- Oh, there we go.
He does go down.
(bird squawks)
- [Man] Looks like what Sunny's been taught to do, kind of.
- [Woman] That's in - but look how down it is.
That's weird.
That's weird, have you seen that before?
- [Man] No.
- At first I thought he was humping me.
- Yeah, try and lean a little bit more.
Nothing will make his posture calm.
Posture up dude, that is is so odd.
- So I'm really interested to read the comments
on this video and see how many of you relate
to Monte's body language when Zee is
walking forward with him and he's feeling that wind.
I have never seen a bird practically hunker down
and kind of backpedal with their wings.
So it was almost like he was trying
to keep from going forward?
And it was totally at a loss for me.
- In slow motion, you can actually play it back
and I thought like,
well it kind of looks like he's going in reverse.
So I played the video in reverse,
and it looks like he's flying forward.
So it's just the weirdest thing, I've never seen it before.
But I don't know, he's got some wires crossed.
- So the interesting thing was, I asked Zee then
to do the same thing that she was doing
for walking forwards, but walk backwards,
and he was entirely content.
- I think it's because he didn't think he was gonna fly.
- Exactly, he didn't feel like he was having to go anywhere.
So anyways, just kind of a crazy little side note
that we made on Monte.
She did ask if he would ever fly, and
honestly we don't know.
I mean, we can give her some steps to try to encourage him
to want to, but unless the bird wants to,
you can't want it for them.
I mean, you can, but you can't get them there without it.
You know what I mean?
So this is our final session of the day with Monte,
and again we pick up where we had left off from session two.
So the goal is to get Monte to not be aggressive to Josh,
and just be calm with Zee in the same in environment,
and the same, in the presence, basically, so.
Check it out.
(clicks)
(bird softly caws)
All right, so we all kind of blew it.
(laughs)
We did not expect this from Monte,
but he actually did a repetition where he did not talk,
which was such a big deal, because that was showing
such a lack of aggression to Josh
that we all just kind of freaked out inside.
(laughs)
and blew the whole energy of the room.
(clicks)
(bird caws)
- Once the entire energy in the room changed, so did Monte,
and it was really difficult to bring that back down.
You can see this in one of our YouTube videos with
AJ and Sven in one of the in-home visits
that we did in Australia.
And one of his big things is, I said,
hey, I want you to just picture the moment
where you're the calmest, and I found out,
he's a scuba diver.
Well the great thing about thinking about scuba diving is,
when you're scuba diving, you-
how many times did I just say scuba diving?
When you're underwater,
you can't be breathing really fast and hyper,
and have a long, enjoyable dive,
because you consume too much air, too fast.
So what we did is we put a little sticky note on his cage,
that said we want you to think about scuba diving, and,
now take your bird out.
And that really made a difference in his session.
So we had to kinda go back to the same type of thing here,
and lower the entire energy of the room
- And if you guys are looking for that video,
it's not actually on YouTube.
It's a Patreon exclusive.
- Oh, well it may be hosted on YouTube.
- Shh.
- A big observation from the beginning was,
just be aware of your energy when you're training.
Because he seems super sensitive to it,
and it's just like,
I think that was partly why we,
we got the hello the second round.
- [Woman] Yeah, we all got super stoked
he didn't do it the first time.
- But there was like also an anticipation we all had.
It was like, our energy was shifting and, you know,
not all birds are gonna be that in tune to it,
but the ones that are, like, Bondai,
will do tricks for us, off of us thinking like,
hey rock out. Oh, look, she did those.
It was like some subtle cues we're giving her,
that she's picking up on, even if we're not
moving our hand, or giving a vocal cue.
She's feeling the intention, however that is,
I feel like I see the same thing with him.
Yeah, don't be afraid of a lot of failure,
try to follow the failure up with another opportunity
to earn a treat,
after that failure has definitely had time to sink in.
- Okay
- But, always follow it up, so he's not,
that's a problem with like,
oh you wanted this, you screamed, I'm leaving.
Well that's like, how do I get it back,
we don't tell them, like, this is okay,
click, here's a treat.
That they, and it's like, Jamie always equates it to a kid,
like you can't do that. You can't do that, can't do that.
And finally you're like, I remember being that, like,
well what can I do, right?
(laughs)
And that's, we don't want the birds to feel like that.
- Okay.
- Take, from both you guys, just take a sec real quick,
and like, just reset.
Extra giggling, and laugh and just chill real quick.
And then when you're ready, go ahead.
(clicks)
- He didn't talk.
(clicks)
(bird caws)
- [Man] Wait two seconds before you step forward.
Good call.
(clicks)
(bird caws)
(clicks)
(bird caws)
(clicks)
(bird caws)
- We did a lot more of the training
that we had already done,
but we just didn't progress as much this third session.
And, we kinda talked about it beforehand and thought,
well, guys, we may not get it,
but we're gonna give it a shot.
Here's why we're going to go through these things,
but really because we'd had so much success,
and we weren't set up, we aren't set up to fail,
but odds weren't really in our favor to have
a massive success, because there was a lot less
motivation for Monte as the day progressed.
(clicks)
(bird caws)
(clicks)
(bird caws)
(clicks)
(bird caws)
(clicks)
(bird caws)
- So, I was thinking that the second rep was so good,
I didn't think we'd get quite the same for the third,
but it also was a different dynamic to start to play with,
really reaffirms two short sessions.
- So depending on the bird,
some birds you can work with multiple times a day,
depending on what you're working on,
but other birds you're a little bit more limited.
And I'll say, our experience with military macaws
we've always been a little bit more limited
on how many sessions we can get in, in a day.
- Yeah, lot of it depends on the size of the bird,
the motivation behind the bird,
but sometimes even just the time of day for the parrot.
And we have several free flight students right now
whose bird does really well at nine am,
but does terrible at three pm.
And, so those are all things to take into consideration
if you're hitting these roadblocks,
consider changing the time of day
that you train your bird the most.
- However, we don't wanna, you know,
say anything bad about the success that we did make,
we still made progress,
and just keep in mind of where we started.
We started with Zee not being able to
even be seen in this room, so,
- Yeah more importantly it showed them what was possible,
and what steps they needed to take
to continue progressing that relationship with Monte,
and that the neat thing is
because of their dog training background,
they have the tools in place to be able to
continue to move forward.
If you don't have a dog training background,
soft subtle plug here, check out the
family friendly parrot formula,
because that will give you the same tools
that these guys have in their back pocket,
to be able to progress forward without us.
- [Man] All right, so go ahead and
take one more step forward.
Okay, step back, step back, all the way out of view.
And Josh, you're good there.
(clicks)
Take one more step forward.
(bird caws)
Okay good.
- I was like, I'm gonna wait.
- [Woman] That talking is a precursor to aggression.
- So again, I don't know how you guys feel about
these little behind the scene chats
that you get to see us have,
when we're giving the birds breaks,
but I thought it would be cool to just
include some tidbits that I thought we hadn't really
shined light upon in past videos.
- I didn't realize the camera was still rolling.
- What do you mean?
- When we had the behind the scenes chats.
- Oh, it's always rolling.
- Well there you go, I guess you get to find out
whatever we're talking about
(laughs)
- Yeah, to that note, if you guys want to see more of those
behind the scenes chats, leave it in the comments,
So we have an idea if you want to see,
yes, more behind the scenes, or,
no, we'd rather not hear you ramble.
- Yeah, I think that's all we've got for now.
- I think when you're,
when you're doing this without us here,
a really good tip that not enough people do, is to,
just set up the camera.
The good news is it keeps you to three to five minutes.
Because nobody wants to sit back
and watch a 15 minute session and critique it.
So when you go back and watch it,
I'd be like, oh crap we went too long.
Better set up a timer next time.
You know they don't keep you guys good there,
but then they need to look at it,
say, oh okay if this happens, you do this, I'll do this.
And I think it would be really -
- [Jamie] Try not to cross blow off the threshold,
keep it a shorter kind of thing.
- Yeah, like again, to add to what Jamie was saying,
this is longer than I would have normally pushed.
- [Woman] Okay.
- And it was probably one more rep
than I would do in a daily thing.
- [Jamie] One more session.
- One more session, sorry yeah.
- [Jamie] Say one more session,
we kinda pushed for this last session.
- Just make sure you're clicking while you're still calm,
because he changes so fast.
- [Jamie] He does!
Do you guys feel like you understand where to go from here?
Okay.
- Yeah, yeah the big one was
I just didn't know how to handle the aggression with Josh.
Like, and then obviously I didn't know what I was,
my issues would, what was the problem type deal.
- [Man] He's a mirror of your emotions, though.
- [Woman] Yeah, he really is.
(bird caws)
(laughs)
Damn.
- [Man] When you laugh and his energy starts laughing,
like, in his food bowl. Or,
- [Woman] He just mimics everything that you're giving out,
he's like a little reflection.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Woman] He's your little reflection.
- Damn.
- [Man] If he's a pain in the ass,
(laughs)
- Not surprised.
(laughs)
- All right guys, so that is it
for Monte's in home consultation,
and I would love to hear if you liked
how this style of video was done.
I actually got quite a few people wanting me to
make longer videos, and for you guys to be able to see
more of what happens in classes and consults
and in person, sort of stuff.
So, that's kind of where this three part video came from,
with the concept, it came from you guys,
so if you guys are enjoying this sort of concept,
please let me know and I will do more of it.
And if you want to go back to the, just,
everything's condensed down to a one, 20 minute video,
let me know that, because obviously I wanna give you guys,
what you guys want.
- And our goal with showing you something like this
is that, it's really difficult to be able to give you
all the tools and the applications of those tools
in only a single course, or something that we sell.
But, you know, throughout the YouTube videos,
the beautiful thing is, we can give you tons of free content
and show you how to use the tools
that we've already talked about through our courses
and different ways to apply them
to set you guys up for success.
No matter what challenges you have, I mean,
this seems like a very individualized challenge and,
yes we did have to dig deep to come up with
some creative ways to win the day with this, but,
hopefully you enjoy this and, I'm definitely curious to hear
if this kind of video is up your alley.
- Thanks for watching, guys.
- See ya next time.