momo
01-14-2009, 07:16 AM
Elmo and I have been getting on super well lately.. well she has asked me to mate with her.. :rofl:
I thought I would try with the hand things. I had conceded that I would never be able to touch elmo but I thought since elmo is so keen on me lately that it can't hurt can it? i wasn't going to force anything this time.. and she can't hate my hands any more lol!!
So, I have this glove that is still quite thin.. as in I can still feel the bites but they aren't as powerful as it is on normal skin. With the power of millet and glove. Elmo will step up with the glove on. Though has been only for the past 20 minutes and now elmo is asleep, crossing my fingers elmo doesn't forget.
I let elmo have a bit of millet and then put it just out of reach she would have to step up on the back of my hand.. after alot of attempts to bite.. and mummy holding her tongue. We got there!!.. Elmo stood on my finger. After alot of.. step down and step ups.. We finally got elmo to stand on my finger without ripping my nail off. Mummy didn't need to flinch because there was extra material at the end where elmo was biting thinking it was mummy's nails.
I knew it worked extra.. ( well for tonight.. I am holding no hope for tomorrow at all.. ) because I carried elmo to bed on my finger but he flew off my hand on the way to his cage.. and I bent down and picked him up with my hand and no millet as reward afterwards.. (this happened twice!!)
There is a light at the end of a tunnel.. but I am paranoid now because if I teach elmo this.. and soon he will be in birdy day care for three weeks.. I am afraid he will lose it all.. but at least now I know how to start it off.
Also, I am scared to take OFF the glove. I did it once in the training when I got over excited.. *sigh*.. and well.. yes the bites are very powerful.. but after a bit of encouragement with the glove.. we got back to a good place with step up on fingers. To the point where elmo would jump on my hand.
Oh wow, I am just so.. omg omg at the moment.. finger fear no longer exists.. well at least for tonight.
I thought I would try with the hand things. I had conceded that I would never be able to touch elmo but I thought since elmo is so keen on me lately that it can't hurt can it? i wasn't going to force anything this time.. and she can't hate my hands any more lol!!
So, I have this glove that is still quite thin.. as in I can still feel the bites but they aren't as powerful as it is on normal skin. With the power of millet and glove. Elmo will step up with the glove on. Though has been only for the past 20 minutes and now elmo is asleep, crossing my fingers elmo doesn't forget.
I let elmo have a bit of millet and then put it just out of reach she would have to step up on the back of my hand.. after alot of attempts to bite.. and mummy holding her tongue. We got there!!.. Elmo stood on my finger. After alot of.. step down and step ups.. We finally got elmo to stand on my finger without ripping my nail off. Mummy didn't need to flinch because there was extra material at the end where elmo was biting thinking it was mummy's nails.
I knew it worked extra.. ( well for tonight.. I am holding no hope for tomorrow at all.. ) because I carried elmo to bed on my finger but he flew off my hand on the way to his cage.. and I bent down and picked him up with my hand and no millet as reward afterwards.. (this happened twice!!)
There is a light at the end of a tunnel.. but I am paranoid now because if I teach elmo this.. and soon he will be in birdy day care for three weeks.. I am afraid he will lose it all.. but at least now I know how to start it off.
Also, I am scared to take OFF the glove. I did it once in the training when I got over excited.. *sigh*.. and well.. yes the bites are very powerful.. but after a bit of encouragement with the glove.. we got back to a good place with step up on fingers. To the point where elmo would jump on my hand.
Oh wow, I am just so.. omg omg at the moment.. finger fear no longer exists.. well at least for tonight.