Recall Trainining ques. on "stay" command

[SDavid]

ok...been doing recall training with both my fids (Galah and TAG). The TAG will fly off of her perch and land on my shoulder from about two feet away after I say "come here." When she lands I click and treat.

What she has begun to do now is to try to fly to me before I even give the command of "come here" -because she's already anticipating getting the treat. So, what do I do to get her to wait for the command before she tries to come to me? I'm happy she's flying to me and I don't want to do anything to confuse her and mess up the training. So what's the proper method?

I've been using the recall training method described in the article "starting flighted recall" from Carly's Homepage.

[PetriTheGreenCheek]

According to the clicker book I just bought on Amazon (and devoured in 5 days!), here's what you should do.

It's great she's coming to you, but do not click or treat or any combination there of when she comes to you, 'anticipating' a treat.

ONLY click and reward when you give the cue you've determined for your bird. She will quickly learn that she only gets a treat when you ask her to.

After all, think of the danger she could be in if you are taking a super hot shower, cooking, or something else, and she decides she wants a treat. So she flys to you.

NOT a good idea, a basic prinicpal for ALL clicker training is click and treat ONLY when the behavior has been cued. If you also click/treat for the desired behavior when it's not been cued, you also run the risk of it becoming a begging behavior- something my GCC did.

I taught him 'turn around' and treated. And when he turned, and I didn't ask him, i still treated. Soon, I had the spinning GCC everytime he was being fed or given a treat, or even hoping for a treat!

Say no to treating when your bird has not been cued!!!

[jmacek07]

I run into this with my galah as well. What I do is when he lands on me I click and reward. I put him back onto the counter and while he is still finishing his reward I get back into place so that I'm ready to give the cue again before he departs.

He also flies toward me every time he sees the pantry opened and hears a bag being opened as he knows that's where his treats are. When this happens I give him the cue to fly back to his cage and then reward him for following that but not for flying to me at the pantry.