Being Punished

[CherylCali]

Early Bird is rather dissatisfied, and she's applying some shunning methods to prove it!

The issue is, I left the house twice today.

The first time she was OH SO HAPPY to see me return. Lifted her wings for fuzzy warm kisses underneath. She for the first time practicing talking. Completely unclear, but I could make out the syllables, especially 'kissy'. She refrained from eating while I was away though.

This evening she has stayed up late to prove a point. I say that because I've sat by her cage for hours waiting for her to come visit, cuddle, and play. She has only come out when I've left the room. I wouldn't know, except that each time she left me a little poo gift where I had been sitting! She has pelted me intentionally and directly with all, ALL, of her veggies and fruits. Except the kale. I suppose kale is not as easy to use as a weapon. When I'm not paying attention to her ignoring me she fusses, mumbling and chirping.

Anyone else get punished for leaving the house?

CherylCali

 

[Tsali]

Funny, but not. Tsali hasn't learned that yet, I don't go out often, but when do he is usually so happy to see me that he doesn't think about being mad. He is just a baby, time will tell.

 

[CherylCali]

I share your concern, she's going to be 5 months old this month!

CherylCali

 

[wrench13]

If you think poops are being used as a discipline against YOU, I would try potty training her.

Salty is used to me leaving every day to go to work, but when I am away in China for 2 or 3 weeks, I get the cold shoulder for a few days, but treats cut that to a minimum. They can be vindictive for sure

 

[CherylCali]

Wrench13, good advice! I have been working on potty training that's why I feel like she was vindictive in her poops.

I'm trying to train her to poop in acceptable places, rather than on command. I don't want her to hold her bowels when I have to leave the house. She did that twice, so I've adjusted the training. I praise her for pooping in the right places, but no treats are offered. I place sheets of paper around the house, so there are targets in every room. 100% of the time she is successful, only when I forget to put her down for a break is there an error. The paper in her cage matches also so that she will see it as a poop target as well.

CherylCali

 

[Skittys_Daddy]

I don't leave the house often, but I have Skittles pretty well trained. If I take my shopping cart out, often he will go into his cage on his own. Then when I come back, he lets me know to take him out and then he gets all 'nosy' looking for a treat because I usually bring him one. He has plenty of toys in his cage and I always leave music playing when I'm gone.

Skittles only poops in certain places. Places he's "allowed" to poop. Though there are a few times he's pooped in no-no places (but he has yet to poop on me and I've had him for over 5 years, as far as I can remember anyways).

 

[plumsmum2005]

Play a game of leaving and coming back. Start off minute or two, come back and go straight to her to make a fuss 'hi how you been etc etc, increase the length of time little by little but each time go to her first and see if this changes how she feels?

If not leave a treat and then leave and if she still not OK treat on coming back if she will be nice and come see you.

 

[Notdumasilook]

It must be a sun conure thing. Booger will only poop off the side or in his cage and go to great lengths to do this. Also wife and I always get an exuberant welcome coming back home. His only pet peeve (pardon the pun) is when he is eating he is VERY defensive so knowing this I respect his boundaries.. No petting when hes eating. He will actually go wing to wing with Cookie, my BFA over food with lots of head bobbing and aggressive posturing/ nips/ squawks.... lol and my BFA, sweet as he is gives Booger his way.
When leaving the house or the room I let them both know what too expect, a "be right back" means just that... and they both understand... a "bye bye birds" means ill be gone for a while and get a "bye bye" back. I make it a point to get them both out as soon as hand are free upon my return. Sometimes I will put Booger in Cookie's cage so they can play/sleep together. Cookie is an amazing baby sitter.. and he works for peanuts)~

 

[BeatriceC]

I had that issue with Charlotte yesterday. We had an appointment that both me and MrC had to go to, so we were both gone from 7AM to almost noon. She was Not Happy when we got back. I tried to get her out of her cage and she flat out refused, even when I told her it was for a shower. I wound up getting my oldest kid to get her out (he's 17, so not really a kid anymore). I used fruit to bribe my way into forgiveness, then I had the audacity to give her medication and we had to start over. She got a lot of fruit yesterday.

 

[Arcygenical]

I work as a chef, so I'm often out of the house for 12+ hour days. Typically my girlfriend is home, so my sun, Mimosa doesn't really mind too much... But when she goes away to visit family, and he's home alone for long spans of time, there's only 1 thing that helps: music.

He used to display distress while I was out, leaving the house in silence, for hours on end. The cage would be torn to shreds, food everywhere, avoidance of me etc. But I open a music stream for "Vocal Chillout" on di.fm and play it from my desktop (same room) while I'm away. It's not my style of music, but Mimosa loves it. It has strange sound effects, and human voice.

And yeah, he doesn't poop until I'm back. Sometimes, especially with the treats I make him (chia seeds, are a part of it) he could give a pterodactyl a run for it's money.