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Stranger
Egg
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 22
Location: Randburg, South Africa |
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Good Morning guys
I just have one question today.
How can I get Diego to enjoy spending more time in his cage while I am busy around the house?
I understand that he gets excited when I come home from work, but even if he spends two hours outside the cage with me, he stills screams to come out when I put him back in his cage. |
Thursday September 28, 2006 9:07 am |
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Jrmno1
Flying tumbler
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Posts: 2310
Location: Ohio, USA |
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quote:
Originally posted by Stranger
Good Morning guys
I just have one question today.
How can I get Diego to enjoy spending more time in his cage while I am busy around the house?
I understand that he gets excited when I come home from work, but even if he spends two hours outside the cage with me, he stills screams to come out when I put him back in his cage.
Welcome to the world of a sun conure  . The best thing you can do is get ear plugs.  ...They are known for this tendance. He wants to be with his flock (you). And he is calling. Get him more toys, anything to distract him. Good luck with this problem, maybe somebody else can provide better insite..
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Thursday September 28, 2006 12:00 pm |
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Cathy
Kamikaze pilot
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6673
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
The only thing I can say is to make his cage as enticing as possible. And even then, he will still want to come out with you, but the more he has to do inside his cage, the more content he'll be with it.
Give him lots to do, like climbing. Provide him with twisted rope perches, & multi branched perches he can climb on, as many as the cage will allow & still leave room for him to stretch his wings.
Give him lots of wood to chew. Iguess I'm assuming they like to chew. You could buy blocks of unfinished, untreated pine at a hardware store, drill holes in them & hang them with sisal rope, & leave a few pieces on the bottom of his cage to play with.
Does he ever play ON his cage? I've got my sennies tree situated right next to her cage & leave her cage door open, when I'm close by to supervise, so she can come out & play on top of her cage & on her tree, & she LOVES being able to come & go from inside her cage like that. |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 12:39 pm |
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meg832
Fledgeling
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Posts: 365
Location: Ohio |
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Does he ever play ON his cage?
How do you teach them to STAY on their cage or gym? |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 6:28 pm |
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Cathy
Kamikaze pilot
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6673
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
Ah! Good question meg!
I guess I've never
taught
my birds to stay on their cage or play gyms, I've just never had any problem with them getting down.
Although, ocaisionally Manu will see something across the room that he wants to get - such as the CAT! And we were having a lot of problem with him waddling over to Poppys cage for awhile & trying to torment him, so I had to move Ppppys cage around the corner.
Jennie never wanders off her cage, EXCEPT if she is startled by something, then she will fly down to the floor.
I guess my birds just don't feel real comfortable on flat surfaces, like the floor. |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 6:40 pm |
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Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Originally posted by meg832
How do you teach them to STAY on their cage or gym?
Are you familiar with clickertraining? 
This might be a very good way to teach them to sit on the gym! |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 8:51 pm |
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Cathy
Kamikaze pilot
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6673
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
Yes Sue! I have heard that clicker training is a very good way to get your birds to stay on their play gyms! That's a very good suggestion! |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 9:11 pm |
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Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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It also works very well for all sorts of things. I taught Flit to run to my finger when I said 'up'. (From my shoulder)
Finally, he stayed on my finger instead of my shoulder. |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 9:30 pm |
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meg832
Fledgeling
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Posts: 365
Location: Ohio |
So, if Stranger and I were to teach out birds to stay on their cages of gyms, would we dare leave the room, or would we still not be able to get anything done around the house? |
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Thursday September 28, 2006 11:51 pm |
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Jrmno1
Flying tumbler
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Posts: 2310
Location: Ohio, USA |
quote:
Originally posted by meg832
So, if Stranger and I were to teach out birds to stay on their cages of gyms, would we dare leave the room, or would we still not be able to get anything done around the house?
Meg,
Charlie, Dawn and Misty lives out side his cage, in our bird room from sun up until day time. Without any problems, as long as somboy is home. They stay in the bird room unsupervise. With the others coming out at different times of the day. This is not for everybody. Birds are curious ceatures, they will have a tendency to get into things when you are not there. We have design our bird room to be bird safe (hopefully). We have removed Power cords, funiture anything they can chew up, poop on or get into thier months. But I am not telling you anything you don't already know. Training or not I would not trust a bird unsupervised.
John and Carrie |
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Friday September 29, 2006 12:15 am |
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justme1968
Just hatched
Joined: 09 Aug 2005
Posts: 41
Location: Kansas |
I have this same issue with Napoleon, when I come home from work he starts to flutter his wings and "wag" his tail feathers. Its actually cute so I usually open his cage door so he can walk around on top. I usually sit in my chair next to his cage and work on my laptop, but he always wants to help me type..... How did you teach your bird to run to your finger from off your shoulder? I've been trying to teach Napoleon that for a long time, usally once hes on my shoulder it takes a while before he will come off... Wish I could change that. |
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