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Post by siobhan on Sept 6, 2017 10:48:43 GMT -5
People often grumble that their parrots get them up too early. Me, too. Rocky 'Too can scream loud enough to wake the dead, and does, bright and early every day. But today I had to get up before dawn for a work assignment and nobody else was awake, not Rocky, not my Ringo Starling, and definitely not the little parrots. The cussing I got when I walked into their room to open the curtains! Clyde and Jade were both furious. I got the curtains open and zoomed out before either of them could clamber out of their cages and bite the crap outta me. I explained that it was either open their curtains that early or leave them shut all day while I was at work. They did NOT care. They didn't want to get up yet. Well, sheesh, babies, neither did I! Rocky was grouchy, too, but Ringo, bless her little heart, is always rarin' to go and didn't gripe at all.
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Post by cnyguy on Sept 6, 2017 21:48:26 GMT -5
I can sympathize with the birds-- I'm usually pretty grumpy when I have to get up before I'm ready.  Around here, the parrots are almost always awake before I am, so there's no problem with early-morning grouchiness. But if I keep them up too late at night, they do object. |
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Post by biteybird on Sept 7, 2017 3:05:09 GMT -5
Siobhan, OF COURSE they are not happy and your selfish wishes don't even enter into the equation. You need some retraining.  |
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Post by siobhan on Sept 7, 2017 9:54:44 GMT -5
LOL. I put them to bed early last night and left them as late as I dared this morning, since I didn't have to be at work early today, and they seemed a bit less Hulk-like. Jade even gave me her version of kisses (she pulls my hair and says "kiss kiss").
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Post by siobhan on Sept 7, 2017 9:54:54 GMT -5
LOL. I put them to bed early last night and left them as late as I dared this morning, since I didn't have to be at work early today, and they seemed a bit less Hulk-like. Jade even gave me her version of kisses (she pulls my hair and says "kiss kiss").
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Post by easttex on Sept 8, 2017 2:28:06 GMT -5
I guess I'm lucky with Allie. She stays very quiet until I take the cage cover off. I'm up before everyone, anyway. To my surprise, Allie has started letting me know she's ready to go to bed, and it's generally a little earlier than I was tucking her in before. Makes things easier.
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Post by biteybird on Sept 8, 2017 3:17:57 GMT -5
Bonnie is quiet in her covered sleep cage until she hears me having a shower, then she starts squawking until she is uncovered and taken to her day cage.
She has been indicating she's ready for bed quite early, too, around 6:15pm.
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Post by siobhan on Sept 8, 2017 14:12:10 GMT -5
Must be nice. Rocky 'Too won't go to bed until we do, and even then complains and whines about it. All the others are ready as soon as I turn the lights down.
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Post by zim on Sept 11, 2017 3:42:41 GMT -5
Yoshi has always been very good about bed time and time to wake up. When the cover goes on, to the time I take it off he's always been silent. That's changed a bit since I've returned to school, but I can't blame him. I put them to bed around 9:30pm, right as I'm heading to work. On days I have work and school I'm not back until 1-2pm the following day. So he doesn't get his cage uncovered all that time. He's always squawking as soon as I get in the door on those days.
Now my sun conure, melly... She screams at me any time she's in her cage and hears me. On my nights off I can't get up and go to the restroom without her screaming!
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Post by julianna on Sept 12, 2017 14:01:57 GMT -5
I am very fortunate that Oscar makes no fuss to go to bed... usually around 7:00 p.m. and stays quiet until I uncover him around 5:00 a.m. He loves to come and sit on my belly and feel my breathing rocking him up and down. We stay quiet until 6:00 ... watch TV and then it is time to clean up and get going for the day.
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Post by siobhan on Sept 13, 2017 16:58:59 GMT -5
Rocky's the only one who gets covered. Ringo Starling has never stood for it at all, and the smaller parrots used to get covered when they slept in their cages, but now that they sleep wherever they want to in their room, there's nothing to cover. LOL The tiels are on a shelf or a curtain rod, Clyde and Benjy are in Clyde's cage and Jade's in her cage but all the doors are open. However, I shut the curtains and turn the lights off except for their nightlight, and it's pretty dark even after the sun comes up in the morning. Unfortunately, Rocky's in the living room and it doesn't stay dark in there once the sun starts coming up. I really think we need blackout curtains, if he'd let me hang them. He objects to window treatments in a big way.
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Around here, the parrots are almost always awake before I am, so there's no problem with early-morning grouchiness. But if I keep them up too late at night, they do object. 
