WaterRaven
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Hey guys,
It's been a long time. Mogli is doing well in terms of health. He's a good boy, very affectionate and eating well, however he flock calls constantly when I am not holding him or sitting in front of him and I'm not sure what to do about it.
He starts flock calling from the moment he hears me step out of bed in the morning and throughout the day until bed time. (whenever he can hear us anywhere around the house and sometimes even if he see us right by his cage?). It was just a little here and there at first and I read somewhere that I should have a call that I do in return, but that seemed to make things worse, he would mimic the call and then flock call non-stop. Whether he can see me or not now, he flock calls.
The only time he seems to stop is if I take a nap on the couch in front of him.
His cage is in the living room. I wanted him to be where my husband and I would be the most, so that even if we couldn't get him out as much as we wanted to on the odd day, he could still see us.
I tried ignoring the behavior at first. Only coming over to him, talking to him, and taking him out when he was quiet, but it's to the point where there isn't a moment where he's quiet to reward him. Sometimes it gets to be too much and we have to roll him into a different room for a break. Apart from ignoring the calling and then coming up with a call to respond to him to see if that eased him, we also tried putting a blanket over his cage when he wouldn't stop calling and then lifted it and reward him when he was quiet. We didn't leave him covered for extended periods of time.
My friend told me to get a second cage for him and make that his nighttime cage/time out cage. She said I should set it up in a quiet room of his own and put him there to sleep at night and then get him in the morning and bring him out to his other cage. She also said that we can move him to that cage if he's being loud like he has been.
Is that what you guys would recommend?
I was thinking about it and I was worried if we started doing that, that he'd start to fly off when we took him to put him away or that if I got him out of his cage in order to put him in a different one, that he'd see that as a reward for calling.
In terms of him maybe flying away, I was thinking about getting him used to a carrier first, jazzing it up with some millet and treats and leaving it open for him to get used to and check out and then use it to take him to his night time cage.
Anyway, those were my thoughts, but any advice or tips would be very helpful.
We love him when he's actually talking to us and we play games like peekaboo, but the endless calling is sadly stressing all of us out.
Some other notes: He's pretty attached to me. He has regurgitated on me and he flock calls the most when he hears me get up in the morning. He doesn't always flock call when my husband wakes up (he gets up first). He lets my husband hold him and pet him, but he will fly over to be with me or move over to me if I am in the room.
Thank you all so much for your time
It's been a long time. Mogli is doing well in terms of health. He's a good boy, very affectionate and eating well, however he flock calls constantly when I am not holding him or sitting in front of him and I'm not sure what to do about it.
He starts flock calling from the moment he hears me step out of bed in the morning and throughout the day until bed time. (whenever he can hear us anywhere around the house and sometimes even if he see us right by his cage?). It was just a little here and there at first and I read somewhere that I should have a call that I do in return, but that seemed to make things worse, he would mimic the call and then flock call non-stop. Whether he can see me or not now, he flock calls.
The only time he seems to stop is if I take a nap on the couch in front of him.
His cage is in the living room. I wanted him to be where my husband and I would be the most, so that even if we couldn't get him out as much as we wanted to on the odd day, he could still see us.
I tried ignoring the behavior at first. Only coming over to him, talking to him, and taking him out when he was quiet, but it's to the point where there isn't a moment where he's quiet to reward him. Sometimes it gets to be too much and we have to roll him into a different room for a break. Apart from ignoring the calling and then coming up with a call to respond to him to see if that eased him, we also tried putting a blanket over his cage when he wouldn't stop calling and then lifted it and reward him when he was quiet. We didn't leave him covered for extended periods of time.
My friend told me to get a second cage for him and make that his nighttime cage/time out cage. She said I should set it up in a quiet room of his own and put him there to sleep at night and then get him in the morning and bring him out to his other cage. She also said that we can move him to that cage if he's being loud like he has been.
Is that what you guys would recommend?
I was thinking about it and I was worried if we started doing that, that he'd start to fly off when we took him to put him away or that if I got him out of his cage in order to put him in a different one, that he'd see that as a reward for calling.
In terms of him maybe flying away, I was thinking about getting him used to a carrier first, jazzing it up with some millet and treats and leaving it open for him to get used to and check out and then use it to take him to his night time cage.
Anyway, those were my thoughts, but any advice or tips would be very helpful.
We love him when he's actually talking to us and we play games like peekaboo, but the endless calling is sadly stressing all of us out.
Some other notes: He's pretty attached to me. He has regurgitated on me and he flock calls the most when he hears me get up in the morning. He doesn't always flock call when my husband wakes up (he gets up first). He lets my husband hold him and pet him, but he will fly over to be with me or move over to me if I am in the room.
Thank you all so much for your time