Re: [Freeflight] Reverse Training Question

[Sara Beth Scudder <h2oshine13@y...>]

Yep... Mercury, who is my grey, does. She loves to ask
me, "what does the dog say" so I will bark. It has
been the other way around, so now she asks the
question, too. It's fun. I am actually encouraging the
reverse training a bit. She knows about 6 or 8 colors.
I am trying to get her to vocalize her colors. So, I
thought this conversation with her might help
things... But, there are a number of other commands
she picked up on a long time ago. It's funny to listen
to her give herself the commands and then follow
through...

Sara Beth and Mercury in Alabama
www.geocities.com/mercurybirdygirl

--- Heidi Jankowski <hsj@s...> wrote:
> My African Grey is a real chatterer and says
> everything. He spends a lot of
> time calling the dog and saying, "Hey come here," to
> me. He usually does
> this early in the mornings when I am busy getting
> all their food ready.
> When he calls me I usually don't come to him. I
> usually answer him with a
> phrase or a whistle. Would this explain why he
> doesn't have 100 percent
> recall? I maybe respond by coming to his "Come
> here," command as much as he
> comes to mine -- maybe 70-80 percent of the time. I
> know he understands the
> command and, likewise, he comes to me when he feels
> like it. If he really
> wants me to bring him a treat or to let him out of
> his cage, often he'll
> reinforce the command with "Come here . . . come,
> here guddammit!" Does
> anyone have birds who use their training commands on
> them?
> 
> Heidi Jankowski 
> 
>