Marvel_ous
Sprinting down the street
We moved Marvel (20 year old Black Headed Caique) to a family room so she could be around people. I haven't heard of a single case where moving a bird to a family room makes behavior worse but well,, it's happened.
She now doesn't care if people are present or not, she screams all day. She's not acting fearful or anxious, she's playing with toys and in general going about her day but just screaming. I've heard screaming is tiring for parrots but apparently not her as she's been going at it for three hours now. People have been in and out and she'll scream even if you're interacting with her. How do you get a bird to stop screaming if they will literally scream while eating a treat? She doesn't care what or who's around her, or what she's doing.
We can't give her back to her former owner for two weeks. I don't want to leave her alone in a room during that time but this scream is ear-piercing and I can't take this level of noise for two weeks. This is not normal parrot noise, it is the same squeal-like scream every 5-10 seconds for hours on end. She has everything she needs or could want and screams through all of it. I also can't handle her right now as she's hyper hormonal and has bitten me every time I've tried to pick her up. Again, displays no fear and will sit on my hand for about 5 seconds before just reaching down and nailing me. She will hold the bars and proceed pin and squeak nonstop if I'm in sight, although today she started screaming instead. I've never seen or heard of anything like her and I just don't know what to do.
Again, she does not care if we are there or not and is not quiet for long enough for me to reward it. Nothing we've tried has gotten her to quiet down long enough to give her a treat- when I tried she just started screaming as she was eating the nut. She's only petted on her head and neck, she gets about 13-15 hours of sleep a night, no sugar or fruit in her diet (switched her from Zupreem to Roudybush, we use nuts as treats and she gets fresh chop without fruit or sweet produce in the mornings), no toys or anything she can rub herself on. She is molting, idk if that makes a difference. She's been loud the whole time we've had her but it's just slowly getting worse. Every day she has a new problem I don't know how to deal with. I don't know what to do until she can go back home to her previous owner.
She now doesn't care if people are present or not, she screams all day. She's not acting fearful or anxious, she's playing with toys and in general going about her day but just screaming. I've heard screaming is tiring for parrots but apparently not her as she's been going at it for three hours now. People have been in and out and she'll scream even if you're interacting with her. How do you get a bird to stop screaming if they will literally scream while eating a treat? She doesn't care what or who's around her, or what she's doing.
We can't give her back to her former owner for two weeks. I don't want to leave her alone in a room during that time but this scream is ear-piercing and I can't take this level of noise for two weeks. This is not normal parrot noise, it is the same squeal-like scream every 5-10 seconds for hours on end. She has everything she needs or could want and screams through all of it. I also can't handle her right now as she's hyper hormonal and has bitten me every time I've tried to pick her up. Again, displays no fear and will sit on my hand for about 5 seconds before just reaching down and nailing me. She will hold the bars and proceed pin and squeak nonstop if I'm in sight, although today she started screaming instead. I've never seen or heard of anything like her and I just don't know what to do.
Again, she does not care if we are there or not and is not quiet for long enough for me to reward it. Nothing we've tried has gotten her to quiet down long enough to give her a treat- when I tried she just started screaming as she was eating the nut. She's only petted on her head and neck, she gets about 13-15 hours of sleep a night, no sugar or fruit in her diet (switched her from Zupreem to Roudybush, we use nuts as treats and she gets fresh chop without fruit or sweet produce in the mornings), no toys or anything she can rub herself on. She is molting, idk if that makes a difference. She's been loud the whole time we've had her but it's just slowly getting worse. Every day she has a new problem I don't know how to deal with. I don't know what to do until she can go back home to her previous owner.