Aimee&Taco
Checking out the neighborhood
- Joined
- 8/23/16
- Messages
- 3
- Real Name
- Aimee
Hi! New here and new to having a pet parrot! I got Taco 2 days ago from an experienced bird owner who just had too many birds in his home. Taco is about a year old and was previously hand-tame by his previous owner when he had him for 6 months.
Taco is a really sweet bird, fairly quiet when people are in his line of sight but when most of us (me, my mom and dad) leave the room he starts screaming for about 3 minutes and then stops. What does this behavior mean?
Besides that I've been training him to be less aggressive in his bites which I've been using the "earthquake" method just to get him a little unstable.
The thing I worry about most is that because my parents work late shift and come home at 11pm-12am at night. I'm worried they're going to wake him if I put him to bed at 10 when I go to sleep.
I know that most parrots need 10-12 hrs of sleep and that if my parents cover his cage at 2am then when I wake at 6 for school I'm going to disturb his beauty sleep.
The only room downstairs that no one goes into at night is the room right next to the garage which probably might be loud.
Please help!
Taco is a really sweet bird, fairly quiet when people are in his line of sight but when most of us (me, my mom and dad) leave the room he starts screaming for about 3 minutes and then stops. What does this behavior mean?
Besides that I've been training him to be less aggressive in his bites which I've been using the "earthquake" method just to get him a little unstable.
The thing I worry about most is that because my parents work late shift and come home at 11pm-12am at night. I'm worried they're going to wake him if I put him to bed at 10 when I go to sleep.
I know that most parrots need 10-12 hrs of sleep and that if my parents cover his cage at 2am then when I wake at 6 for school I'm going to disturb his beauty sleep.
The only room downstairs that no one goes into at night is the room right next to the garage which probably might be loud.
Please help!