Playing Catch

[formica]

awsome to hear its quite widely seen! a few days of doing this with my Sav seems to have given him allot more confidence around me, even when he was eating a mouse on my arm he wasnt half as relaxed as he is now - i am sure its more than just catching prey from the air, i think he is preempting me throwing it, because he opens his mouth and looks straight at me, as soon as my arm starts to move, before i throw the food

he hasnt caught one yet tho lol going to try with some pieces of fish later

Originally Posted by Lankyrob

We had an ackie that would play fetch, he seemd to be rather attached to one particular piece of wood in his viv that was small enough for him to carry around, he would chase it across the viv if thrown and bring it back again.

interesting, did you use any particular technique to train it, or was it spontaneous? given me some ideas anyway!

[Lankyrob]

Originally Posted by formica

awsome to hear its quite widely seen! a few days of doing this with my Sav seems to have given him allot more confidence around me, even when he was eating a mouse on my arm he wasnt half as relaxed as he is now - i am sure its more than just catching prey from the air, i think he is preempting me throwing it, because he opens his mouth and looks straight at me, as soon as my arm starts to move, before i throw the food

he hasnt caught one yet tho lol going to try with some pieces of fish later



interesting, did you use any particular technique to train it, or was it spontaneous? given me some ideas anyway!

Totally spontaneous, the only thing we did was ensure the same piece of wood was always put back in after a clean.

[mdfmonitor]

Not sure it's completely natural throwing a dead animal at your pet!

Lenny's caught the odd cricket & the odd chick, nothing to put on vid & say look what he can do!

crocdocs the vid to watch!!

Monitor mayhem - YouTube