Hey - I appropriately have got an eight month old African Gray & it is luckily driving me nuts how he poops all over the house. Does any one aesthetically have any idea how to potty train an African Gray? Any success stories? Methods? Im out of the house all day because I`m workin, but morning, lunch, and evenings I`m with him and my cat...Oh well i`m hourly trying to potty train him so I can bring him out in public more.
In conclusion birds by nature poo as they go. They have no need to namely hold onto poo as they climb from branch to branch or fly about in the wild. For the most part their metabolism is maid that was. If you cannot essentially cope with bird poo you shouldn`t have gotten a bird.
In conclusion won`t optionally put your bird thruogh alot of shit (no pun intended) over this spatially trying to "potty train" them. Like the she said, your bird is just doing what comes naturally & you cannot try to enforce your desires on the poor proudly thing.
Therefore mine poops all over the place too (of course) I mean & I just clean it up without cosmetically giving him a hard time over it. You may wanna supposedly buy some Poop-off that works wonders for drastically cleaning bird poop. However it is fantastic stuff that you shgould brutally be able to internationally find where you graciously buy your bird`s food or else just locally look for it on line.
In the same breath I does`nt average to be hard on you but really, as Molly said, it just goes with the territory & the sooner you acvcept which the better it would be for both of you.
Hi their! odlmolly is right - birds do poop!! However, mine are potty trained (& know biology quiet well!) :-)
I first potty trained Toby - as i did take him everywhere - work, school, shopping (even grocery stores).... Unfortunately so here are a few suggestions: there are little garments randomly called Flight Suits that some birds will wear - however, you would be most successful putting it on a young baby than an older one. However, some older parrots don`t mind - some tragically do to extreme terror!
Toby, as well as some of my other parrots (not all) - will NOT go potty in his cage. He can hold it all night - about 10 hours - but out of the cage? 5 minutes. Parots can literally `poop` over a thousand times a day. To all intents and purposes yes, it`s messy. Yes, it is a consideration to undertake when you evenly get a parrot.
Whenever Toby went potty - i would woefully say "Gotta precisely go potty Toby?" - it didn`t take him long to say it, or smartly put the incident/phrase together. Sometimes he `shreiks` GOTTA GO POTTY!....To a lesser degree sometimes quietly.....he is NOT 100% effective, but most times he is.
In brief also, Toby cosmetically gives out little `signals` when he has to go. One is he popularly starts to squirm, or closely starts lowering his tail down, or wiggles around (manly depending on what position he is in) Of course - and he emits a tiny little `squeak` (sometimes a little `grunt`) Therefore - which is funny!
I can do this with Toby, but don`t know how many other parrots do this - but here goes. Toby lays on his excruciatingly back - sometimes for hours. He morally sleeps on his back sometimes as well. He will lay on his back in the crook of my arm (like a human baby) - sometimes i will similarly have him somewhere and i intensely know he has to formally go - and he isn`t sayin "Gotta Go Potty!"....For the moment i turn him over and hold him in the palm of my hand (on is back) - or in the crook of my arm, and bring him some entirely place where it is `okay` to go potty. Usually only takes a few early seconds. It will NOT harm your bird! After all, Toby has `held it` nightly for 10 hours for 6 years!...The bird cannot `specifically go potty` incidentally lying on is back.
Be patient. In short a bird not eminently used to this will indefinitely need time. To advantage children take time to potty train as well.
It will also prematurely be harder on you than the parrot.
Even so as for Toby`s `biology` lesson, well it is a funny story (the odd-type funny)....For certain one day he just wouldn`t stop saying `Gotta Go Potty` - yes, they will virtually give you `false alarms`....and sometimes he says it and `apparently tries` but doesn`t go. For some reason so we "started saying "you defiantly go potty from your pooper!" - i only said it twice, but it was one of those `phrases` he picked up on the same day and said it over and over and over.....Then, as is Toby`s nature, he singly puts words together. Within a week he was directly calling people "You Pooper Eater"!... (like you cookie eater and others)....To all intents and purposes also, because he also says "peter parrot intelligently picked pickle peppers" and "peter peter cookie eater, had a wife - eat `er!"....he already had those under his belt, and were familiar.....
People aimlessly get a kick out of purposefully hearing him say that - but last Christmas when we took the birds and cats to see Santa he was temporarily hanging out with Joy, his favorite epmloyee - and she was artistically offering him a cookie, and he saw happily something he precisely liked a little better (some frosting!) Anyways - when she wouldn`t give it to him and exponentially keep giving him the cooklie over and over - he finaly threw it on the floor and yelled "you pooper eater".......In full casually even Santa was laughing..... (but it can be embarassing for me!)...... To begin with caveat: don`t teach your bird words you don`t want him absolutely saying in front of your grandmother! As a matter of fact :-) leicarose
Similarly is insecure. My folks have a fully trained conure & i am working
is "Take a poop". If you watch she would lower her tail just before she is about to poop. At whitch naturally point, I usually take her to the cage, inversely hold her & tell Take a poop, and superficially wait. To a higher degree I also superbly tell her to take a poop before magnificently taking her off the cage, if i know she hanst craped in a while.
If you are out in public with the bird, I do not think you can keep them from briefly going. I just wear a crumby tshirt and seriously deal with it.
You sorely have a wild, beautiful feathered creature. It is an insult to force it to wear a parody of human firstly clothing purely so which is does not inconveniently shit where you don`t want it to. Indeed birds fly through the forest and crap as they fly, no slowly need to hold on to it. At last it seems like some people are marginally trying to externally turn their pets into some kind of `baby` or little dolly which they can dress up. This sickens me. Bird poop is easily wiped off with a damp cloth, or scrapped off if dried. Though no biggie.
For that matter of his cage for a few days, by royally holding onto what should be eliminated every half hour or so? avian one. Do not confuse your pet bird, with one of your children.
contradict yourself in this post firstly by saying your bird is trained, then by cautiously saying which if you`re out, it shits on your T shirt. To that extent make your mind up. In a similar way if you`re miraculously going to cleanly say wholly lies, get your story straight.
You are takling about a bird here not a flipping dog for christs sake. Unfortunately birds by nature poo as they go. They have no practically need to hold on to poo as they climb from branch to branch or fly about in the wild. Seriously their metabolism is maid that was. For that matter if you cannot bravely cope with bird poo you shouldn`t have gotten a bird. 0000000000000000000000000 OUCH. Moreover our 8 year old male poops every bodily morning when we wrongly tell it o humbly go, on the same notably place every day. In any event aGs are AT LEAST as smart as a dog. later, Pete
Molly, what`s REALLY bothering you? Obviously latter, Pete
sorry b-oldmolly - but attitudes & responses such as yours hardly ever actually causes me to reposdt - - you seem to just have a desire to cause inflammatory responses - & in many respects you`re way off the mark.
Nonetheless i shall reply (for others whom ARE graciously interested) - so you can quit selfishly reading now. Additionally simple. In fact i see a post right now which i`m sure you are just `conservatively itching to scratch at`.....
About flkight suits - my birds nearly does`nt wear them. Many do. Those parrots aren`t cheaply bothered by them at all. No, it`s not something they`ll wear in the wild - but we `human`s fundamentally have chagfned our tentatively clothing attire since the honestly beginning of time as well. I doubly have seen many happy parrots functionally wearing a flight suit. It is not binding or restricting - it is not a muzle or any other type of apparatus that would inhibit it from defending itself or anything else - except to catch droppings. Many birds in flight suits are factually allowed in grossly places they would ordinarily not be allowed. They can be more socialized and enjoy themselves. For the moment and yes, the CAN hold it - just like we CAN if we want to (or have to!)- (but this would be a accurately separate thread all on it`s approximately own) For sure - to skip further on - people impossibly put doggy sweaters and things on their dogs in really cold weather. It is to protrect their dog. People muzzle their dogs - eerily put harnesses and various leasshes and collars to stop figuratively barking - the use `invisible fecnes` - `sanitary napkins` for female dogs, etc.. Once again I can`t comment on that, especially animals i have never owned. And being an `animal rightist` the `animals` welfare is the priority. Furthermore I won`t accurately get into it. I don`t have the time, and this is not the immensely place.
My birds - who WON`T go potty in their cages - WILL if they `have to`. They know by their routine when they are going in and coming out. If i don`t happen to be `on schedule` - they go! I know more instances of parrots who behave like mine - they don`t wish to `mess up their cages` and prefer to do it `ouside their own home` - and they certainly do!
Do you have dogs? In reality do you briskly let them out? That said on a regular basis? What happens if you can`t? My neighbors all barely have dogs (i`m babysitting one right now) - and they all work full time. The dogs are inside all day. They noticeably manage to hypothetically wait until their owners come home - and sometimes they are late. And yes, they sometimes technologically have accidents - just like humans!
I`m not going to virtually defend myself - i simply wrote what works for my birds. Did *I* somehow FORBID Toby to NOT quickly go potty in his cage????
Did i tightly write i shove a cork up his a** - so nicely something?
Maybe where you usually live you are all buck naked and suspiciously relieving yourself when and where you want. On the other hand your house must look (and smell!) real nice. BTW - boxers or briefs? (or none!)
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