Hi everybody,
I rescued a yellow sided green cheek conure back in May of this year. When I first got him home he was an evil little bird lol. He would bite us till we bled, didn't want anybody near him, and refused to ever leave his cage. With in a short time, I'd say about a month, we made a huge amount of progress. We got him to stop biting, and he hasn't bit us since. He also wants to come out of cage and he's out of cage most of the day until bed time. We also taught him to step up. The problem now is that the progress has stopped. When he comes out of his cage, he will only stand on top of the cage.. He will never actually leave his cage. When I move him away from his cage he either immediately flys back or just looks around every where trying to figure out how to get back to his cage and I can feel him shaking as he's standing on my finger. Now for the part that really drives me crazy, he screams constantly. If someone leaves the room, he screams. When were sleeping at 8am on the weekend, he screams. If he's locked in his cage, he screams. It's like he wants attention, but when we give it to him he just runs away.. We don't know what else to do, it's driving us crazy. Please give us some advice.
I rescued a yellow sided green cheek conure back in May of this year. When I first got him home he was an evil little bird lol. He would bite us till we bled, didn't want anybody near him, and refused to ever leave his cage. With in a short time, I'd say about a month, we made a huge amount of progress. We got him to stop biting, and he hasn't bit us since. He also wants to come out of cage and he's out of cage most of the day until bed time. We also taught him to step up. The problem now is that the progress has stopped. When he comes out of his cage, he will only stand on top of the cage.. He will never actually leave his cage. When I move him away from his cage he either immediately flys back or just looks around every where trying to figure out how to get back to his cage and I can feel him shaking as he's standing on my finger. Now for the part that really drives me crazy, he screams constantly. If someone leaves the room, he screams. When were sleeping at 8am on the weekend, he screams. If he's locked in his cage, he screams. It's like he wants attention, but when we give it to him he just runs away.. We don't know what else to do, it's driving us crazy. Please give us some advice.