Empath
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- Jul 8, 2013
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- Parrots
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2 Sulphur Crested Too's
1 Red tailed Black Too
1 Yellow Naped Amazon
1 Eclectus
1 Alexandrine
1 Quaker
1 Gold Capped Conure
1 Musk Lorikeet
1 Olive Musk Lorikeet
1 Yellow Sided Green Cheek
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Long screaming Sulphur Crested Story. Skip to the bottom if you dont want to read the essay below
I've had Freddy for about 12-13 months. he was brought to my avian vet as a "lost" bird. I had brought my quaker in to the vet shortly after Freddy arrived and they told me it had been lost etc. I was patting him and he was very cuddly and affectionate and seemed quite sweet. i enquired what thy would do with him and they said they'd try and find his owner and if that fails re-home him.A few weeks later they said to me "we cant find any trace of his owners do you want to take him" . they think he's under 10 years old
So I took him home, they warned me beforehand though that he :
1/ screams really loud (i'm sure i can fix that)
2/ hates women (i'll just tell the missus to stay away from him)
3/ has a thing for shoes (i'll worry about that when the time comes)
Within about 10 minutes of me getting him home and setting him up in a cage, i'm patting him through the bars and he's got his head pressed against the cage. then moving faster than lightning he's ripped into my finger. blood everywhere but it wasnt too bad. i gave him a few minutes then put my finger through again and he's gone for it again. i'm currently wondering whether the vet has given me the right bird cos this isnt the friendly bird i played with a few weeks earlier.
So i leave him be. the screaming started. Loud, oh yes very loud, but it's a long screech. I've previously had S2's i had one when i got Freddy. this is not a normal scream. this is the type of scream you'd expect if the bird had a broken leg and was screaming in pain. Initially i went over to see if he's ok and he's just glaring at me screaming. leave him for a few hours -he's still screaming.
and this is how the first few weeks with freddy went. my brother described his screaming as sounding like a nazgul. During this period he'd still go me through the bars. i let him out of the cage and he chased me trying to bite my feet. it appears he didnt have a "shoe" thing, he has a "foot" thing. ok i remedied that by wearing shoes.
when out of the cage he flew at my missus a few times. he's bitten her twice that i can recall, both times he flew to where she was and bit her. one of the occassions he flew to another room and went straight for her, she didnt even know he was out of the cage....
after a while he stopped biting and is largely affectionate to me. i can give him heaps of scratches and he's fine both in and out of the cage. the one thing i havent been able to eliminate is the screaming
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So in a nutshell Freddy will scream when i get home, scream when i go outside, scream if he's left in his sleeping room too long. he screams when i try and talk to my partner, sometimes he's just seems to like screaming. screamed if i covered his cage...
a couple of things: He doesnt scream as much when i'm at work or "not around". if i'm having a nap he's usually pretty good and doesnt scream. If i'm in the lounge room he will sometimes carry on, other times he's good. he has improved since 12 months ago when it was screaming constantly for hours
I have tried ignoring him, placing in a separate room, taking him in a smaller cage with me to another part of the house, waving a net at him (he hates this), given him a foragaing item (works 90% of the time), i've yelled at him (yes i know you're not meant to do this but you havent lived with freddy), tried to divert him when he's screaming by getting him to do tricks
the one thing i havent done is take him to the vet and do a full health check (hopefully in the next few weeks). he seems fine to me, he gets good food (which he eats). my partner is complaining of a ringing in her ear when he screams which is why finding a solution to this has become more pressing
and he's currently in a double macaw cage with my other s2 (who's pretty quiet). he has enough space, they used to be separate by a divider but the past month has been spent together. they're not close but they do tolerate each other
i spend what time i can with him out of the cage, but this is hard given his homicidal tendencies (towards my partner). i can have him out scratching him for an hour and within a minute of going back to the cage he's screaming again.
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I'm putting this up here in the hope someone else with a fresh set of eyes can give me some tips to reduce his screaming. He's inside most of the time. if i put him in the aviary he screams like a bastard if he cant see me (even though he's with other birds). i've been doing this Jan '13 and it's getting harder to take. the reason i haven't given him away before (and i have considered it) is because i dont want him being bounced around from home to home. I believe that he is the product of his past home/s and i believe if i just gave him away this would keep happening to him which isnt fair on him
I've had Freddy for about 12-13 months. he was brought to my avian vet as a "lost" bird. I had brought my quaker in to the vet shortly after Freddy arrived and they told me it had been lost etc. I was patting him and he was very cuddly and affectionate and seemed quite sweet. i enquired what thy would do with him and they said they'd try and find his owner and if that fails re-home him.A few weeks later they said to me "we cant find any trace of his owners do you want to take him" . they think he's under 10 years old
So I took him home, they warned me beforehand though that he :
1/ screams really loud (i'm sure i can fix that)
2/ hates women (i'll just tell the missus to stay away from him)
3/ has a thing for shoes (i'll worry about that when the time comes)
Within about 10 minutes of me getting him home and setting him up in a cage, i'm patting him through the bars and he's got his head pressed against the cage. then moving faster than lightning he's ripped into my finger. blood everywhere but it wasnt too bad. i gave him a few minutes then put my finger through again and he's gone for it again. i'm currently wondering whether the vet has given me the right bird cos this isnt the friendly bird i played with a few weeks earlier.
So i leave him be. the screaming started. Loud, oh yes very loud, but it's a long screech. I've previously had S2's i had one when i got Freddy. this is not a normal scream. this is the type of scream you'd expect if the bird had a broken leg and was screaming in pain. Initially i went over to see if he's ok and he's just glaring at me screaming. leave him for a few hours -he's still screaming.
and this is how the first few weeks with freddy went. my brother described his screaming as sounding like a nazgul. During this period he'd still go me through the bars. i let him out of the cage and he chased me trying to bite my feet. it appears he didnt have a "shoe" thing, he has a "foot" thing. ok i remedied that by wearing shoes.
when out of the cage he flew at my missus a few times. he's bitten her twice that i can recall, both times he flew to where she was and bit her. one of the occassions he flew to another room and went straight for her, she didnt even know he was out of the cage....
after a while he stopped biting and is largely affectionate to me. i can give him heaps of scratches and he's fine both in and out of the cage. the one thing i havent been able to eliminate is the screaming
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So in a nutshell Freddy will scream when i get home, scream when i go outside, scream if he's left in his sleeping room too long. he screams when i try and talk to my partner, sometimes he's just seems to like screaming. screamed if i covered his cage...
a couple of things: He doesnt scream as much when i'm at work or "not around". if i'm having a nap he's usually pretty good and doesnt scream. If i'm in the lounge room he will sometimes carry on, other times he's good. he has improved since 12 months ago when it was screaming constantly for hours
I have tried ignoring him, placing in a separate room, taking him in a smaller cage with me to another part of the house, waving a net at him (he hates this), given him a foragaing item (works 90% of the time), i've yelled at him (yes i know you're not meant to do this but you havent lived with freddy), tried to divert him when he's screaming by getting him to do tricks
the one thing i havent done is take him to the vet and do a full health check (hopefully in the next few weeks). he seems fine to me, he gets good food (which he eats). my partner is complaining of a ringing in her ear when he screams which is why finding a solution to this has become more pressing
and he's currently in a double macaw cage with my other s2 (who's pretty quiet). he has enough space, they used to be separate by a divider but the past month has been spent together. they're not close but they do tolerate each other
i spend what time i can with him out of the cage, but this is hard given his homicidal tendencies (towards my partner). i can have him out scratching him for an hour and within a minute of going back to the cage he's screaming again.
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I'm putting this up here in the hope someone else with a fresh set of eyes can give me some tips to reduce his screaming. He's inside most of the time. if i put him in the aviary he screams like a bastard if he cant see me (even though he's with other birds). i've been doing this Jan '13 and it's getting harder to take. the reason i haven't given him away before (and i have considered it) is because i dont want him being bounced around from home to home. I believe that he is the product of his past home/s and i believe if i just gave him away this would keep happening to him which isnt fair on him