TheToddicus
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Hi all!
I'm a first time bird owner with a hand-tame lutino cockatiel called Bambino, coming up to 6 months old. He bonded with me really quickly and now loves my partner too. We decided not to have him clipped and he's really good at flying now, he can be a bit mischievous but he's got a really lovely nature.
He's started moulting recently, and this has made him extra clingy and cranky, screaming constantly if someone isn't in eyesight or if he's in his cage. We have him out as much as possible, usually 6 hours a day, but he obviously needs to go in his cage if we need to go out, cook, etc. He will scream nonstop the second he goes in or someone leaves his eyesight and it's driving us crazy, as well as being upsetting to hear him unhappy. I don't know if there's something wrong or if he just wants attention. He has plenty of toys, plenty of access to food and water, but he just screams all the time. We've taken him for a check up at the vets and she said he's fine, we've made sure the cage has enough access to everything, tried even letting him be in the room on his own instead but nothing stops the screaming. All the advice we've seen says to ignore it and he'll learn it doesn't get him attention but if anything he just screams louder the more we ignore him.
We live in apartments at the moment and although no one has complained yet, I also don't want it getting to that stage. I just don't know what to do!
Can anyone advise us on this? I think it is tied in with moulting and with it being his first moult and us being first time bird owners, all 3 of us are pretty new to this :')
Thank you!
I'm a first time bird owner with a hand-tame lutino cockatiel called Bambino, coming up to 6 months old. He bonded with me really quickly and now loves my partner too. We decided not to have him clipped and he's really good at flying now, he can be a bit mischievous but he's got a really lovely nature.
He's started moulting recently, and this has made him extra clingy and cranky, screaming constantly if someone isn't in eyesight or if he's in his cage. We have him out as much as possible, usually 6 hours a day, but he obviously needs to go in his cage if we need to go out, cook, etc. He will scream nonstop the second he goes in or someone leaves his eyesight and it's driving us crazy, as well as being upsetting to hear him unhappy. I don't know if there's something wrong or if he just wants attention. He has plenty of toys, plenty of access to food and water, but he just screams all the time. We've taken him for a check up at the vets and she said he's fine, we've made sure the cage has enough access to everything, tried even letting him be in the room on his own instead but nothing stops the screaming. All the advice we've seen says to ignore it and he'll learn it doesn't get him attention but if anything he just screams louder the more we ignore him.
We live in apartments at the moment and although no one has complained yet, I also don't want it getting to that stage. I just don't know what to do!
Can anyone advise us on this? I think it is tied in with moulting and with it being his first moult and us being first time bird owners, all 3 of us are pretty new to this :')
Thank you!
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Rain & Buddy 
and the pics are so cute - what is his name, did I miss it? He surely sounds loved... OH - do you leave a radio on for him when out of the room? 
we've been using different whistles with him while starting to train him as well as our flock call. He's started to whistle them back at us so I guess he thinks we need training too 
