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Meeting neighbors
Anna! Sweetest bird ever! Anna! Most annoying bird ever!
Anna has a large outdoor aviary with lots of branches to climb on, lots of things to chew, lots of toys, and is of course well fed.
She is near our gate so announces everyone who comes to the gate. She also has a direct line of view into our kitchen, and gets very noisy when she sees any of us in the kitchen...or sees us walk by..or hears our voices in the house. we have taken to whispering a lot lol
I talk to her all the time and open the feeding door and pet her. I sometimes go in the aviary and sit with her and let her cuddle with me. She loves that. I do too actually.
But most of the time she is alone in her home, just watching everything.
I feel guilty I don't go inside her aviary more often and sit with her.
Sometimes..a lot of times..when there is no one in the kitchen or outside, she starts to scream and I mean scream..without taking a breath.
That's when I want to strangle her. My husband really has a love/hate relationship with her and when she starts up, he disappears into the basement so he cannot hear her.
When she is doing this screaming, we cannot watch TV . We cannot have a conversation. We cannot talk on the telephone. We cannot hear ourselves think.
I don't mind the noises she makes but the incessant screaming makes me crazy.
Luckily she usually only does this a couple times a day. and luckily she does not do this at 6:00 in the morning. The neighbors would kill me.
I guess this is life with a cockatoo.
gotta love them!
Anna has a large outdoor aviary with lots of branches to climb on, lots of things to chew, lots of toys, and is of course well fed.
She is near our gate so announces everyone who comes to the gate. She also has a direct line of view into our kitchen, and gets very noisy when she sees any of us in the kitchen...or sees us walk by..or hears our voices in the house. we have taken to whispering a lot lol
I talk to her all the time and open the feeding door and pet her. I sometimes go in the aviary and sit with her and let her cuddle with me. She loves that. I do too actually.
But most of the time she is alone in her home, just watching everything.
I feel guilty I don't go inside her aviary more often and sit with her.
Sometimes..a lot of times..when there is no one in the kitchen or outside, she starts to scream and I mean scream..without taking a breath.
That's when I want to strangle her. My husband really has a love/hate relationship with her and when she starts up, he disappears into the basement so he cannot hear her.
When she is doing this screaming, we cannot watch TV . We cannot have a conversation. We cannot talk on the telephone. We cannot hear ourselves think.
I don't mind the noises she makes but the incessant screaming makes me crazy.
Luckily she usually only does this a couple times a day. and luckily she does not do this at 6:00 in the morning. The neighbors would kill me.
I guess this is life with a cockatoo.
gotta love them!
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