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Post by beccilouise on Feb 5, 2017 14:36:48 GMT -5
Ok, I have the weirdest problem. Right by the door in our living room, is a low bookcase. We use the top of it as a shelf. It is not particularly tall, nor is it enclosed. David keeps his trophies on it, and occasionally a bottle or a book. For a while now, Maya has flown over to this shelf to investigate, and occasionally throw a bottle or a pen off the side of the shelf, or use it as a paper-shredding platform.
Yesterday, however, she started flying over to it, marching up and down it and squawking like a seagull over and over again. Naturally, it rather drowns out the sound of the TV and is driving David mildly insane. I have tried putting a towel over the shelf to cover the small gap between the wall and the shelf, moving the trophies, moving everything else. She is still doing it.
I'm currently sat in the pet room with her and the bunny, surrounded by sawdust, because we've all been banished from the living room.
She's also pulled the delete key off my laptop. It has been a particularly trying day.
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Post by zim on Feb 5, 2017 20:34:26 GMT -5
Is there something new on the bookcase, or near...or even within line of sight? Sometimes they can take a dislike towards new objects and act this way.
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Post by biteybird on Feb 6, 2017 0:46:20 GMT -5
Bonnie used to do this on our wall shelves (which were higher up). At first she hid behind the photo frame and screeched, but then we removed the frame. Since having her hormone implant and doesn't seem as interested in the shelf. The strutting up and down and squawking sounds a bit hormonal to me, or perhaps attention-seeking behaviour - Bonnie paces up and down in her cage sometimes and squawks when she wants us to pay attention to her or let her out. Maybe Maya has decided the bookcase is hers (territorialism)? The laptop keys...always a popular target.  |
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Post by julianna on Feb 6, 2017 14:47:40 GMT -5
awwww you all got banished?? (kinda funny though). I am not sure why Maya would be doing this other than what Zim and Biteybird have expressed. If you really want her to stay off the stand then you will need to put some heavy things on it (so she cannot throw them) and block her landing points.
Not sure what else to do.
It is too bad that most computer places (here anyway) cannot replace just one broken key.
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Post by beccilouise on Feb 6, 2017 18:09:02 GMT -5
Thanks everyone, I placed some boxes of perfume on the shelf yesterday (for my sister, I don't wear perfume for Maya-related reasons!) I've realised it may well be this. She was much better today and we did not have any shelf-strutting or screeching. If she repeats this behaviour, I will take your advice and block her landing points. I think it may well be hormonal and territorial as she also started purring when I went over to sort her out. I'm being a bit stricter with her bedtime routine for the next few weeks and being very careful about feeding her warm food to try and level her hormones a bit. Hopefully that will help! On a more positive note, I've found somewhere to fix my laptop key and Maya has not bitten David in over a week (touch wood!)
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Post by biteybird on Feb 7, 2017 1:40:18 GMT -5
I agree with blocking the landing points; in fact, the first thing my husband said when I read him your post was "just fill the top with books, then she can't strut along it". Good luck! Hopefully you won't be evicted from the living room again. |
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