Post by siobhan on Aug 11, 2015 17:52:13 GMT -5
You know how they tell you if your Quaker's being a dictator, to rearrange his cage and it'll settle his hash? It works for a 'too, too. 
We had that awful spell with Rocky when we had given up in despair and were all set to hand him off to a rescue even though it was breaking our hearts. We tried rearranging his cage and presto, he has gone back to being a sweetheart. It's been three weeks and he hasn't had a single naughty day.
He loves to sit on me and be snuggled or at least sit on my knee and he is very reluctant to be put back on his cage. However, at dusk, his usual routine is to shriek until we cover his cage even though he won't go to sleep until we turn off the TV and lights and go to bed ourselves, usually around 11. And often, even after we cover him, he shrieks a while. But I accidentally discovered something the last several days. If I give him a good long snuggle right before bedtime, he still might shriek a bit but not much, and maybe not at all. Instead, he'll talk and chuckle and whistle under his cover and even go to sleep eventually, even if we're still up and the TV is still on. I had been avoiding that, even though he made it plain he wanted me to pick him up, for fear of getting him all riled up right before bed and having even more trouble settling him down. Quite the opposite. The snuggle seems to soothe him like a bedtime story. Who knew? 'Toos are entirely different creatures from other birds.
We had that awful spell with Rocky when we had given up in despair and were all set to hand him off to a rescue even though it was breaking our hearts. We tried rearranging his cage and presto, he has gone back to being a sweetheart. It's been three weeks and he hasn't had a single naughty day. He loves to sit on me and be snuggled or at least sit on my knee and he is very reluctant to be put back on his cage. However, at dusk, his usual routine is to shriek until we cover his cage even though he won't go to sleep until we turn off the TV and lights and go to bed ourselves, usually around 11. And often, even after we cover him, he shrieks a while. But I accidentally discovered something the last several days. If I give him a good long snuggle right before bedtime, he still might shriek a bit but not much, and maybe not at all. Instead, he'll talk and chuckle and whistle under his cover and even go to sleep eventually, even if we're still up and the TV is still on. I had been avoiding that, even though he made it plain he wanted me to pick him up, for fear of getting him all riled up right before bed and having even more trouble settling him down. Quite the opposite. The snuggle seems to soothe him like a bedtime story. Who knew? 'Toos are entirely different creatures from other birds.
And I think Bonnie's noise is unbearable at times...
