Am I the only one that wants to be a bird right now? I would get to see Loryn naked, sleep in her bed and if I was a good birdie, I could take a shower with her too.

Cockatiels can be smart.. give him a week or so to get used to the cats, he will be fine... cover him when you want him to sleep :)

Very amusing to read this :thumbsup

makes 3 of us...

Loryn , if you can ship him
I can take him off your hands .
He'll fit right in here
http://www.twistedbydesigns.com/Animals

The key to keeping them quiet is letting them out of the cage most of the morning .. but I see you have cats so its not the best Idea

well if I knew you would come running naked if I started screaming then I'd do it too.. :1orglaugh

Loryn,

Looking at the pics, just get the bird a cage with a stand. Fred just might stop some screaming. Most birds don?t like to be on ground level.

A few years ago, a beautiful white bird flew into my sliding glass window. I had (have) no clue about birds and it was just laying there. I had no cage, so I used my tennis ball collector basket (not sure what you call it) and put a mirror and water in it for the bird. My cat was really pissed off that one bathroom was shut off to him and the bird was making noise. The next day I went to the pet store to buy food and asked where I could drop him/her off since it appeared to have a broken wing.

All the vets around here wouldn?t even see the bird. I think they all said what breed and my simple response was I don?t know, it was pure white but kind-of green since it shitting a lot. The pet store was quite helpful telling me to get the bird hanging in the air and gave me a number for a bird refuge center. I did remove a hanging plant and place the tennis cage with the bird and told myself I would deal with the shit later. The bird was quiet and my cat was normal.

The refuge center did call a couple days later that they would take the bird an access it. A 1.5 hour drive to drop off the bird, and I felt so stupid that I saved a Pigeon?oh well; at least it has a nice environment to live its life since they took it.

Good luck with Fred, I am pretty sure once he is settled in his new home the screaming will stop. :)

Birds are pretty funny animals. My 3 parrots do some funny tricks when they think nobody is looking, but as far as your bird just put him up on a higher location. It'll make him not as scared and probably stop his screaming. Make sure to put in new food and water at night so in the morning he isnt screaming for you to come and change it

your kitties are so pretty :)

cats + birds usually don't mix well, at least in the cartoons...

50 dying birds

My daughter brought back my photo albums today . . . here are a couple old pics of me and Harold.

http://www.cherryredass.com/harold1.jpg

http://www.cherryredass.com/harold2.jpg

fucking lucky ass bird! he gets to see you naked, I hate him already too! KILL HIM!

You're complaining about a cockatiel? Goddamn. Try having my bird. He's a lorikeet. An Australian parrot. Possibly the loudest fucking bird in this country. A cockatiel at it's loudest would be like heaven compared to the screech of a lori. The best think you can do is keep him away from the cats, give him heaps of toys to play with and give him regular attention. Also try get some tunes that he will try and copy. He'll spend all his time trying to imitate the tunes and won't even think about making any noise.

Oh those are so cute!!! I wish Fred would sit on my finger like that. I can't wait. Harold is so cute!

Thank you for that sugggestion. I am going to change his food and water at night. He screamed 4 times this morning and that was all. I changed his food and he was happy.

It's really hard to get used to ..I'm thinking someone got fed up and let him out to fend for himself

Did you say he stops when you cover the cage? If so, that might be a way to train him. When he screams, immediately cover the cage for a short period of time. Take the cover off and if he starts up again, re-cover the cage for another short period of time. Birds aren't stupid, he should learn pretty quickly that bad attention is not like good attention and that screaming gets him nowhere.

Just make sure you spend some time with him doing things that interest him as well, so he doesn't get to the point of feeling neglected by being covered up.

Actually, the bird waking her up was her own fault. I know one of my first posts on the topic of the bird told her to cover him at night. She should wake him up, not the other way around.

omg... I should have done that a long time ago but not to my bird :1orglaugh

Now imagine living with my african grey. She speaks spanish and english, and takes it upon herself to punish the dogs at the strangest times. Usually at about 5am.

Very good point!!! Yeah the little bastard, I am in charge!!! haha

Yeah Kimmy I tried that for the first week I had him and I was getting up and down all night. I swear it was fun for him. He would scream I would cover him and sit back down. He would stop screaming right away and I would wait a minute or two so the effect would take place and right when I would uncover him SCREAM, so I would cover him again. Sometimes he would wait until I sat back down and then scream. So I swear he was laughing at me. My friends said that bird is so playing you! haha SO I tried the calling to him worked, but then in the morning SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM. SO no I am going to change his bowls at night and cover him up. I know as soon as I get it down it will be easy and fun. It's just learning him and I don't know anything about birds. He is a lot harder to deal with than the Bearded Dragon that is for sure.

Why would you uncover him? It isn't punishment, it is time to go to sleep. Cover at 8 or 9 PM, uncover when you wake up.

This site told me that if you lay a light sheet over the cage when a bird is screaming it will calm him down and stop him from screaming and if I continued to do this then he would learn not to scream anymore. I was doing this during the day when he was screaming.