LoadedPorpoise
New member
- Oct 11, 2023
- 5
- 4
- Parrots
- Green Cheeked Conure
Turquoise, yellow sided Green Cheek
Hi to anyone who reads this and thank you in advanced.
About 9 months ago, my partners 12 year old sister was given a conure to care for. He? (we are not sure but refer to him as a male) was put in a far too small cage for several months, not cared for beyond food and water, and subjected to torment at the hands of several cats. The cats would sit right next to his cage and watch him, and on a few occasion managed to shove his cage off the cupboard he was on to the floor and broke it to the degree he would escape and be chased by cats around the room. When I moved in with my partner and we had the ability, we rescued him from the situation, bought a cage for him that was appropriately sized and moved him to our room where we keep the door closed from cats. He has been in our care for the last 5 months
He (who we named pickle) now has toys, a small bowl for bathing we refill whenever its needed and plenty of space to explore. We had been making good progress in simple things like hoping onto a stick for sunflower seeds, or standing on a finger for a seed before he runs away but we have had a lot of trouble trying to get him comfortable with our hands and hand tame and we are now at a loss.
We know he loves interraction and attention because he is always being a goofball in his cage to try and make us notice, and we have let him out when we can to try and give him more free time. When he is out, we have let him get back into his cage on his own terms, only once or twice have we had to grab and return him to his cage and on those occassions it was for his own safety.
The biggest problem we have is aggression and noise. We know GCC's are noisy birds, but we cannot have our windows open to try and fight the heat because the moment he hears a bird outside he goes insane, flock calling like he is in mortal danger. Sometimes he will danger call at nothing (that we can identify), but in our very small room it's becoming unbearable.
We also cannot let him out too often around our original pair of cockatiels because he will often be aggressive against them.
I'm making this post because we are at a loss as to what to do, and hoped to get some advice or insight on how we could work with him. Pickle loves our attention and interest, and seems so close to a breakthrough but he has stalled for the last month and we don't know what to do with him. The worrying part is with our small room and his aggression, we are worried we might have to rehome him, which we really don't want to do.
Any and all advice will be immensly appreciated and I will answer any questions I can as soon as I can.
Thank you so much
About 9 months ago, my partners 12 year old sister was given a conure to care for. He? (we are not sure but refer to him as a male) was put in a far too small cage for several months, not cared for beyond food and water, and subjected to torment at the hands of several cats. The cats would sit right next to his cage and watch him, and on a few occasion managed to shove his cage off the cupboard he was on to the floor and broke it to the degree he would escape and be chased by cats around the room. When I moved in with my partner and we had the ability, we rescued him from the situation, bought a cage for him that was appropriately sized and moved him to our room where we keep the door closed from cats. He has been in our care for the last 5 months
He (who we named pickle) now has toys, a small bowl for bathing we refill whenever its needed and plenty of space to explore. We had been making good progress in simple things like hoping onto a stick for sunflower seeds, or standing on a finger for a seed before he runs away but we have had a lot of trouble trying to get him comfortable with our hands and hand tame and we are now at a loss.
We know he loves interraction and attention because he is always being a goofball in his cage to try and make us notice, and we have let him out when we can to try and give him more free time. When he is out, we have let him get back into his cage on his own terms, only once or twice have we had to grab and return him to his cage and on those occassions it was for his own safety.
The biggest problem we have is aggression and noise. We know GCC's are noisy birds, but we cannot have our windows open to try and fight the heat because the moment he hears a bird outside he goes insane, flock calling like he is in mortal danger. Sometimes he will danger call at nothing (that we can identify), but in our very small room it's becoming unbearable.
We also cannot let him out too often around our original pair of cockatiels because he will often be aggressive against them.
I'm making this post because we are at a loss as to what to do, and hoped to get some advice or insight on how we could work with him. Pickle loves our attention and interest, and seems so close to a breakthrough but he has stalled for the last month and we don't know what to do with him. The worrying part is with our small room and his aggression, we are worried we might have to rehome him, which we really don't want to do.
Any and all advice will be immensly appreciated and I will answer any questions I can as soon as I can.
Thank you so much