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I know that parrots wake up with the sunrise and are usually very active in the morning. But I was wondering to what extent the behaviour is viewed as 'normal' and isn't destructive, aggressive or neurotic?
Early in the morning, when the skies are still dark, my CAG Jo-Jo starts climbing all around his cage non-stop. He also bounces up and down, puts his wings away from his body and makes a short "wee" sound. If there are any branches or wooden perches, he then moves to destroying the branch that he sits on and eventually falls down because he breaks it. I've already run out of branches for him once and he started chewing on the bars of the cage and scraping of the iron powdering cover off. I know he wants to be let out of the cage, but I don't want to reinforce this behaviour so I'm waiting until he calms down a bit and then I let him out. I suppose maybe that could be a learned behaviour with his previous owners, because he started doing that from the very first day at our house.
Another problem is that he doesn't care about his breakfast in the morning. He doesn't react to food at all. He also doesn't concentrate on training even though he is supposed to be hungry and want the treats. It is also really hard to provide him with so many branches, because he shreds them so aggresively in the morning.
I don't know if it is normal behaviour or a destructive behaviour? Could I improve it a little bit and how? I am an early bird myself and I'm fine waking up early and soing some routines, but this behaviour just confuses and upsets me so much, sometimes I feel that it almost drives me crazy because it seems unstoppable.
I also forgot to mention that he can keep performing this behaviour non-stop for three hours.
Early in the morning, when the skies are still dark, my CAG Jo-Jo starts climbing all around his cage non-stop. He also bounces up and down, puts his wings away from his body and makes a short "wee" sound. If there are any branches or wooden perches, he then moves to destroying the branch that he sits on and eventually falls down because he breaks it. I've already run out of branches for him once and he started chewing on the bars of the cage and scraping of the iron powdering cover off. I know he wants to be let out of the cage, but I don't want to reinforce this behaviour so I'm waiting until he calms down a bit and then I let him out. I suppose maybe that could be a learned behaviour with his previous owners, because he started doing that from the very first day at our house.
Another problem is that he doesn't care about his breakfast in the morning. He doesn't react to food at all. He also doesn't concentrate on training even though he is supposed to be hungry and want the treats. It is also really hard to provide him with so many branches, because he shreds them so aggresively in the morning.
I don't know if it is normal behaviour or a destructive behaviour? Could I improve it a little bit and how? I am an early bird myself and I'm fine waking up early and soing some routines, but this behaviour just confuses and upsets me so much, sometimes I feel that it almost drives me crazy because it seems unstoppable.
I also forgot to mention that he can keep performing this behaviour non-stop for three hours.
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