I have an ~2 year old Canary Wing Parakeet named Odie, who may also be part raid siren considering he will scream for hours on end if I am not in the same room as him. I also have a ~10 year old Indian Ringneck, who is a sweetheart but doesn't get along with Odie.
Part of this is probably due to how we interacted upon originally getting him - since I was working remote full time I was able to have him out for most of the day, our cat at the time was ill and had no interest in any attempt at hunting a bird. That cat has unfortunately passed, and since my wife is a cat person, we now have 2 new cats, who, given an opportunity, will definitely be hunters.
Due to this I currently have the birds out for ~6 hours a day, during the beginning of my work day until a few hours before ending, as the cats tend to want some attention near the end of my work day. During this time I'll typically attempt to play with him on my breaks, but he's generally pretty non-interactive, he normally just wants to be on my shoulder or on his cage near me.
When he's out and I'm around, he's fine. He'll get a little riled up if he hears sounds outside the office, but overall he just hangs out, occasionally plays with toys, nothing major. If I put him in the cage, he adamantly refuses to play with his toys in his cage, and will.. I guess the best way to describe it is bite the cage bars, and make a sharp metal tapping sound on it with his beak. Think in the prison movies where an inmate runs his cup across the cage bars, but with his beak.
But if at any time I am to leave the room, he will immediately try to jump onto my shoulder to come with me. Which I pretty often let him, since getting him out of the room and investigating sounds I think is good for him? But when I'm not able to take him with me (when I'm cooking - I have to leave the house, playing with the cats), he will proceed to scream for literal hours until I return. I've tried teaching him that me leaving the room isn't a bad thing (my wife giving him treats while I step out for a few seconds) - but anything more than 10-15 seconds of me being out of the room results in him becoming a raid siren until I return.
Any tips on how to work on this behavior? My wife is currently pregnant, and that kind of puts a timeline on how long we can manage this behavior, because I can't have him screaming for hours on end when we have a newborn, and even sooner I'd rather not have him stressing my wife out prior to birth.
Part of this is probably due to how we interacted upon originally getting him - since I was working remote full time I was able to have him out for most of the day, our cat at the time was ill and had no interest in any attempt at hunting a bird. That cat has unfortunately passed, and since my wife is a cat person, we now have 2 new cats, who, given an opportunity, will definitely be hunters.
Due to this I currently have the birds out for ~6 hours a day, during the beginning of my work day until a few hours before ending, as the cats tend to want some attention near the end of my work day. During this time I'll typically attempt to play with him on my breaks, but he's generally pretty non-interactive, he normally just wants to be on my shoulder or on his cage near me.
When he's out and I'm around, he's fine. He'll get a little riled up if he hears sounds outside the office, but overall he just hangs out, occasionally plays with toys, nothing major. If I put him in the cage, he adamantly refuses to play with his toys in his cage, and will.. I guess the best way to describe it is bite the cage bars, and make a sharp metal tapping sound on it with his beak. Think in the prison movies where an inmate runs his cup across the cage bars, but with his beak.
But if at any time I am to leave the room, he will immediately try to jump onto my shoulder to come with me. Which I pretty often let him, since getting him out of the room and investigating sounds I think is good for him? But when I'm not able to take him with me (when I'm cooking - I have to leave the house, playing with the cats), he will proceed to scream for literal hours until I return. I've tried teaching him that me leaving the room isn't a bad thing (my wife giving him treats while I step out for a few seconds) - but anything more than 10-15 seconds of me being out of the room results in him becoming a raid siren until I return.
Any tips on how to work on this behavior? My wife is currently pregnant, and that kind of puts a timeline on how long we can manage this behavior, because I can't have him screaming for hours on end when we have a newborn, and even sooner I'd rather not have him stressing my wife out prior to birth.
