Post by humanperch on Mar 20, 2016 16:04:31 GMT -7
My family and my CAG are great. My cockatoo Coconut is a bit of a monster at times. At about 5 years old, without having done this at all before, he decided that he wants to scream like a rooster in the mornings to make sure everyone is awake early. He also does not stop until he is let out. This is not funny since some of us want to sleep, some go to work, and some of us who were up early never had him scream like this before. No one's schedule has changed in five years, but he started about a month before Daylight Savings Time. It's a bit better now that we did the "spring ahead" thing but still not good.
What can we do to stop the screaming? Even if we just leave him down there he won't stop until our scheduled morning bird time begins, which means we can't just ignore him and think we're training him to stop screaming. He just thinks "Oh, I get it, I have to scream for the WHOLE TWO HOURS and THEN they'll appear." Even then, he's waking up my gray, who now looks tired in the morning like the Garfield cartoons where his eyelids are half closed.
I keep having to apologize to my CAG saying things like "You are a good bird. I'm sorry Coconut keeps waking you up."
The weather is not different.
The lighting in his sleeping room is not different.
The house's temperature is not different.
The food is not different.
The human schedule is not different.
The early morning screaming from my cockatoo is VERY DIFFERENT and VERY ANNOYING.
What's going on? More importantly, what can I do?
What can we do to stop the screaming? Even if we just leave him down there he won't stop until our scheduled morning bird time begins, which means we can't just ignore him and think we're training him to stop screaming. He just thinks "Oh, I get it, I have to scream for the WHOLE TWO HOURS and THEN they'll appear." Even then, he's waking up my gray, who now looks tired in the morning like the Garfield cartoons where his eyelids are half closed.
I keep having to apologize to my CAG saying things like "You are a good bird. I'm sorry Coconut keeps waking you up."
The weather is not different.
The lighting in his sleeping room is not different.
The house's temperature is not different.
The food is not different.
The human schedule is not different.
The early morning screaming from my cockatoo is VERY DIFFERENT and VERY ANNOYING.
What's going on? More importantly, what can I do?
