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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 9, 2016 16:50:14 GMT -5
Bishop has been loudly screaming for literally the whole day. It's honestly driving me crazy now. Normally he will yell when he wants attention but I cant figure out what the heck he wants. I hadn't even uncovered his cage yet in the morning before he was already doing it. It is now getting to be the evening and it is still going on. He is yelling extremely loudly whether he is getting something from me of not. Now I normally have no problem ignoring it but it gets a little hard after hours have gone by. Luckily we don't have any neighbors close to our home because it can be heard throughout the entire house. This is a fairly large old farmhouse that is made of solid brick walls and he is loud enough to be heard through every single one no matter how many are between him and I. Have any of you had this problem before? He's never been like this in any of the years he's been with me.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 9, 2016 17:35:36 GMT -5
Thankfully he's stopping now that it's starting to get dark. I still don't know what caused him to be like this though.
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Post by easttex on Feb 9, 2016 18:31:33 GMT -5
I have not had the pleasure, but if I did there are a couple things I would think about. The first I would consider with a sudden behavior change is illness. I think you took Bishop to see a vet recently, so that seems unlikely. I'm assuming you haven't changed anything in his environment, or around it. Sometimes a pretty innocuous-seeming alteration is taken badly. Is he in a place where he can hear things going on in another part of the house? If he starts in again tomorrow, I would try moving him temporarily, from the room he is in, to see how he responds. It's best to try that when he has a quiet moment, so you don't look like you're responding to the scream. It's a place to start, anyway.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 9, 2016 19:00:12 GMT -5
Yes he had been to the vet just last month and was told he's healthy. There have not been any changes very recently. He is where he can hear other people and that is unavoidable with younger brothers who yell and argue with each other. He was moved upstairs to my bedroom so that he wasn't where everyone hangs out most of the time so close to my brothers arguing and yelling at him when he screams. Everyone was stuck at home today with the snowstorm but my brothers were not as loud so that wouldn't be it. I'll try your suggestion to move the cage if he continues tomorrow.
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Post by biteybird on Feb 10, 2016 2:31:05 GMT -5
Bonnie screamed a bit when we had a mouse problem once...
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 10, 2016 6:37:22 GMT -5
Bonnie screamed a bit when we had a mouse problem once... Now I know that's not it. I'm in an old house, it's got plenty of cracks and crevices for mice to get in. They get in from the cellar and from there are able to get into the living room. We always have one or two mice that we have traps out for and when Bishop's cage was on the first floor in the living room they'd find ways to get in his cage and eat his food that gets dropped to the grate on the cage bottom. That's another reason why he is now in my bedroom, the mice have never been able to get to the second floor. |
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Post by julianna on Feb 10, 2016 13:34:13 GMT -5
I have read articles where QP's will do this when they are in heat and very frustrated. As far as moving him I would let him be where the people are because they are very curious creatures. He may be frightened and seeing the people around may calm him.
Just a suggestion.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 10, 2016 15:43:48 GMT -5
I have read articles where QP's will do this when they are in heat and very frustrated. As far as moving him I would let him be where the people are because they are very curious creatures. He may be frightened and seeing the people around may calm him. Just a suggestion. He's pretty much back to his normal self now. He is being unusually sweet right now as I'm typing this (I think part of it has to do with wanting the zipper and strings on my hoodie) but that's about it. I know they like being where everyone else is but I'd rather keep him away from there. He was downstairs in the living room for years but he was not the most friendly bird, biting all the time. This was when I did know about how to really care for him right. He was always around the noise and my younger brothers yelling and when I found out that he can become too stressed from those things I moved him to my bedroom where he completely changed within a few hours of being moved. So for now anyways I'll keep him where he is, if he starts the screaming again though I will try moving him. |
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Post by aaron on Feb 10, 2016 18:59:11 GMT -5
Glad to hear he's returned to his normal self.. We haven't had this problem with Cupcake but man does that sound irritating. I wonder what his issue was...
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Post by biteybird on Feb 11, 2016 1:47:09 GMT -5
It's certainly a mystery…we still can't work out Bonnie's behaviour with my husband (calling for him when he's out of the room, but biting him when he's there). I guess there must be reasons for Bishop's screaming but you may have to just live with it on the occasions he does it; at least until you can put the pieces together. It definitely would not be easy to put up with the noise for hours/days on end.  |
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 11, 2016 6:54:38 GMT -5
It's certainly a mystery…we still can't work out Bonnie's behaviour with my husband (calling for him when he's out of the room, but biting him when he's there). I guess there must be reasons for Bishop's screaming but you may have to just live with it on the occasions he does it; at least until you can put the pieces together. It definitely would not be easy to put up with the noise for hours/days on end. There are some days where Bishop does that to me too, calling out to me like he wants attention then biting when he gets it. |
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Post by Jan and Shah on Feb 11, 2016 11:36:01 GMT -5
Yep, Shah is the same - screaming out non stop and when I go to get him out of his cage, he bites me. So I just talk softly to him and he eventually quietens down - but it can quite a long time to do this. I don't know what sets him off but I put it down to having a bad hair day. Sometimes I wake up really grouchy for no apparent reason so I figure that Shah does the same thing.
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