December | 2007 | Bryan's Angels

Howdy Australians
Friday, December 7th, 2007

I was informed by my friend that Bryan’s Angels and Kiki are featured in an Australian Bird Forum named “Aussie Birds Friendly Forum“. We are featured in the following posts in the forum: Another Lovie Site and Introducing Target Training.

Howdy Australians!

Kiki and I are very happy that our weblog have been introduced to all fellow Australians. Many thanks to the forum moderator, Robert for the introducing Kiki and me to your fellow members. Thank you for all the support and love for Kiki. I do hope that Bryan’s Angels has provide essential information about parroting, taming & training tips that are of good use to all Australian Parrot Lovers. And I do hope everyone has enjoyed Kiki’s trick performances on YouTube. I’m sure Kiki will continue to work hard and bring more actions to everyone.

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Kiki’s Through The Hoop Trick
Thursday, December 6th, 2007

After letting Kiki exposed to so many advance and difficult tricks, I’ve decided to take a step backwards in teaching Kiki something relatively simple and straightforward. I introduced to her a simple trick called Through The Hoop Trick. It’s a really simple trick that Kiki took only a couple of minutes to understand and master it. It’s a simple trick and anyone can try (including you, the fans of Bryan’s Angels and Kiki, of course) training your birds, and all is needed is just a Hoop. A hoop that is just big enough for your bird to go through. As for me, I couldn’t find a decent hoop in the market for Kiki, so I ended up DIY a customized hoop for Kiki using plastic coated metal wires from hardware store.

Kiki in action…

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Kiki’s Open & Fetch Trick
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

On my previous post, I’ve covered that Kiki is learning The Shell Game Trick. She’s now progressing fairly well. I’m really lucky that my brother was around and he assisted me capturing Kiki during training. I’m here to present you the latest video of Kiki performing a chained trick – Kiki’s Open & Fetch Trick. In fact to be correct, it’s not really a complete trick but just a component of segment in The Shell Game Trick that Kiki was learning since last Sunday. The Youtube video that I’m sharing, featuring Kiki opening the pink shell upon cue and fetch the red lego brick hidden within the pink shell.

As I said earlier on, it’s a chained trick which comprised of two behaviors that Kiki had learned earlier on: The Retrieve Trick (Fetch Command) and The Opening Shell Trick (Open Command). Kiki has totally no problem in executing the retrieval of the red lego brick, as she has performed the fetching trick of his favorite yellow lego brick. With the target stick introduced during Target Training, Kiki was able to accept the red lego brick almost immediately, and this further shorten the time spent in introducing new props. My primary concern in the Open & Fetch Trick was to let Kiki understand the concept of opening the pink shell.

Introducing of the pink shell was fairly straightforward and easy for Kiki with the presence of the target stick. I have to do a few demos in front of Kiki on how I open the pink shell (without the presence of the lego brick). After a couple of times of guiding the motion with Kiki, on the opening of the pink shell, she soon understand the concept and gradually improved in her technique. What I can say about Kiki, she’s really smart and a fast learner. She amazingly surprises me of mastering this trick component within 30 minutes. That’s an achievement! Well done Kiki!

Kiki open the pink shell and retrieve the red lego brick…

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Kiki’s attempt to lift open the cage door
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

As the flock leader of Bryan’s Angel, I’ve been busy lately on projects and busy training Kiki with new tricks. I was suppose to post a Youtube clip featuring Kiki during training of the new trick, but I couldn’t as my cameraman – my dearest brother was apparently unavailable. I do hope I will be able to share the clips to everyone real soon.

Anyway today, I caught Kiki doing something really fantastic. I left Kiki back to her cage for her dinner as 6.30pm as usual and I went for a shower. Soon after I was back from the shower and standing in front of the cage, Kiki started to hop down to the cage door and started her amazing attempt. She trying to lift open the cage door. I swear that no one has ever taught her on this, everything was self-taught by her own. I’m totally impressed, I immediately grabbed hold of my handy-cam and captured this brilliant moment.

Kiki in action…

Although her attempt to lift open the cage door and get out of the cage was unsuccessful, but I totally impressed! Really awesome. I’m sure soon she will figure out her way to open the cage door and make way out of the cage. Anything can be possible.

This really convinced me that my decision in securing those doors with cable ties when I’m out, was totally sensible. Kiki’s a really smart girl and she has undergone various tricks training, I’m sure with enough time she will be able to figure out her own way.

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