Training them for some peace and quiet.

Snoopy, my 4 year old CAG is getting to be the noisiest creature on the
planet. (s)He's very bright, has a huge vocabulary, complete with many
little interactions but has a nasty habit of spending time trying to make as
much noise as possible from time to time. This can include simple
squalking, high pitched noises, thrashing around the cage.

I don't think it's either lonliness or boredom (toys, and company all day as
I work from home and my wife is currently off too), it's just the bird being
tempermental.

Has anyone had any success reining a bird like this in a bit? Major issues
are that it's embarassing leaving him with friends while on holiday as he
sometimes keeps them awake at night!

Oh, on that note, does anyone know of any places that board Parrots in SE, S
or midlands of england?

--Steve C

Stephen Casey wrote:

> Snoopy, my 4 year old CAG is getting to be the noisiest creature on the
> planet. (s)He's very bright, has a huge vocabulary, complete with many
> little interactions but has a nasty habit of spending time trying to make as
> much noise as possible from time to time. This can include simple
> squalking, high pitched noises, thrashing around the cage.
>
> I don't think it's either lonliness or boredom (toys, and company all day as
> I work from home and my wife is currently off too), it's just the bird being
> tempermental.
What absolute rubbish.

>
> Has anyone had any success reining a bird like this in a bit?
What do you mean by reining? You cannot put reins on a bird.

> Major issues
> are that it's embarassing leaving him with friends while on holiday as he
> sometimes keeps them awake at night!
>
> Oh, on that note, does anyone know of any places that board Parrots in SE, S
> or midlands of england?
>
I do. And I have no problems with normal behaviour like noise either.
All birds make noise. It's what they do. They don't do it to annoy you
or to be temperamental, it is simply being a bird.