No! Don't Wanna!

Crash and Pippin have started learning 'retrieve' but Mom isn't the greatest teacher. She messed up her shaping behavior, so after memorial day, we'll start over and do it right this time! Both are good at picking up the ring, and holding it, but we're working on bring it 'put it in the hand'. Right now we're learned "back up and fling!". Great game, this.

In the meantime, however, they have both learned a bad habit. Not wanting to go back into their house after playtime, they've decided to fly up on their playtop. For a while, they would step up from there but immediately fly to our shoulders, then back to the playtop. Hard to put them away when they are doing this. After a while, however, they started showing bad behaviors on the playtop - defensive posturing and even biting. At this point, their dad found a phillips and removed the playtop from their house.

We're trying to determine right now if the behavior is becuase that corner is a bit darker (though not dark) than the rest of the room, if the design of the inside of their cage was causing them to not want to go back in, or if this is an adolescent 'what can we get away with'. Biting is not tolerated, however. And since we'll be out of town with a bird sitter this weekend, and they haven't shaped up, they will, unfortunately, have to stay in their cage for 5 straight days. We'll work on the 'go home' behavior when we return.