chocobyted
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- Jan 12, 2020
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- New parent to an umbrella cockatoo & 2 cockatiels.
Hi All,
I recently got a 6 year old cockatoo from a lady that was rehoming him. She also gave me a very large cage (very similar to what is shown here: https://cockatoo-info.com/housing/cage-aviary/).
A few days passed now in this house and the cockatoo is keen on never ever getting into the cage, he snatches food to eat and gets out right away from the cage. Because the door is wide open (shown in the pic on that website) he just gets a hold of the side or the top the moment I am trying to put him inside. I bought a few branches and a rope branch I put at low, medium and high sections of the cage but he has no interested to get on at any of them. He just sits on the top of the large cage - taller than me I tried to put cardboxes and toys at top but he just throws them down.
I am very worried when he is not in his cage when I will be out at my work until 7pm tomorrow. I close the door of the room he is in but I feel like he has everything in that room to trash and get himself into dangerous situations.
I tried everything like leaving and hiding treats in the cage and always keeping his water and food in the cage but none of these work. Did anyone have this problem and was able to resolve it?
I recently got a 6 year old cockatoo from a lady that was rehoming him. She also gave me a very large cage (very similar to what is shown here: https://cockatoo-info.com/housing/cage-aviary/).
A few days passed now in this house and the cockatoo is keen on never ever getting into the cage, he snatches food to eat and gets out right away from the cage. Because the door is wide open (shown in the pic on that website) he just gets a hold of the side or the top the moment I am trying to put him inside. I bought a few branches and a rope branch I put at low, medium and high sections of the cage but he has no interested to get on at any of them. He just sits on the top of the large cage - taller than me I tried to put cardboxes and toys at top but he just throws them down.
I am very worried when he is not in his cage when I will be out at my work until 7pm tomorrow. I close the door of the room he is in but I feel like he has everything in that room to trash and get himself into dangerous situations.
I tried everything like leaving and hiding treats in the cage and always keeping his water and food in the cage but none of these work. Did anyone have this problem and was able to resolve it?