Budgie Runs Through a Slinky

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You may have seen my previous post about my budgie going through a toilet paper tube. Well we took this trick one step further.

Now the budgie runs through a slinky as well.

This trick add on only took five minutes to train as he had already learned to go through various sized tubes.

This one is more exciting though because you can see the bird running through the slinky and because it can be bent in different directions as opposed to the straight tube. One time we let him run into the slinky and quickly bent the exit end and hooked it up with the entrance end and he kept going around in a circle a couple times till we let him out.

So if you have taught your bird to go through a tube, go ahead and try to find a slinky to add another trick to your repertoire without the effort of teaching a whole new trick. The bird should pretty quickly figure out that the slinky is just another tube to go through if it is already proficient at the tube trick.

Start by letting it run through a contracted slinky as a plain tube and once it figures that out, you can start expanding it for longer runs. If the bird isn’t picking it up, go back to the tube trick post and just use the same techniques to target the bird through the slinky. Please be careful and use two hands or get assistance for holding the slinky open.

If you let go of one end, it may spring shut and injure your bird. Be safe and enjoy.