Bailey obsessed with 'tiel's cage

faust1200 · Post by **faust1200** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:17 pm

Hi guys. Bailey is only 3 months old and I have had him for about 11 days but I have spent a lot of time with him and he is doing very well so far. However, what started out as cute is becoming a bit annoying. He started doing this occasionally but now he frequently will jump off his cage, clipped wings and all, and land on my tiel's cage. The problem with that is my tiel hates it as she is the nervous type. So I tell him not to do it (because IRNs speak english right?

) not yelling or anything and put him back on his cage. He'll do it again then I simply put him in the cage and shut the door. Anyway, last night I had them both out sitting on me and Bailey made a jump for the tiel cage again. He proceeded to go inside, drink some water, eat some food, play with the toys. He is fascinated with the tiel's cage for some reason, even when the tiel isn't in there! Well his little excursion last night has made him even more obsessed with the tiel cage. Any advice on how to discourage this behavior? I don't really mind him on the cage except for the fact it drives my tiel loco. Thanks - Jay

Donna · Post by **Donna** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:56 pm

Toes can easily get bitten off as well. You can try putting a towel on top of the cage and maybe a little play gym on top of the towel. Soon he will tire of this game and go on to something more annoying. :lol:

Donna

giantfoot_truck · Post by **giantfoot_truck** » Mon May 21, 2007 1:22 pm

Same thing happened to my IRN, she love to be on top of the doves cage, she even sleep on the extra perch that stick out of the doves cage, she just like the doves and the dove's cage!

Do you provide your IRN cage with enough toys? if you dont maybe thats why it always want to be in your tiels cage., it just want to play the tiels toys. Is the cage of the same size? If your IRN cage is smaller, maybe he wants bigger cage like the tiels.

You might want to try to cover the top of the cage with any kind of garment, so when your IRN land there your tiel will not recognize your IRN is there, unless it climbs down and show itself...

If it still come back then you should move the tiels toys, food and water container to the IRN cage, and get another one for the tiels, or switch with the one that your IRN has.

To make it easier, switch cage, meaning that your tiel will move to the keets cage, and the keet will stay in tiels cage, your tiels dont mind with that right?

faust1200 · Post by **faust1200** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:40 pm

My aim is for Bailey not to do it period. Bailey has toys and his cage is actually bigger and nice than my tiel's. There's no disguising when Bailey has landed on the tiel's cage. (imagine flap flap flap THUD) Both cages face out toward the room and like I said Bailey doesn't care if the tiel is in or not. He's just curious about the cage. I think if I just let him have his way with the cage he will be more interested.

faust1200 · Post by **faust1200** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:41 pm

giantfoot_truck wrote:
To make it easier, switch cage, meaning that your tiel will move to the keets cage, and the keet will stay in tiels cage, your tiels dont mind with that right?

Lol are u serious

Donna · Post by **Donna** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:50 pm

With all due respect your birds should have a seperate place for out of cage time. They should never be aloud to play on top of there cages, It gets to be a dominance issue when they get older. All my cages are in a seperate room from the play stands, but for many people space is an issue so you must accommodate as you see fit.

Donna

Post by **kyria** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:54 pm

I have a big bird room, all have seperate cages, but the little ones are rarely allowed out, unless we supervise. Jordan and Pickle are out all the time and Mickey and Kai come out just before dusk for play, as it makes it easier to retrieve them back to their cage on dusk.

Jordan loved the budgies cage also and would try everything to get in there. I had to tie down food tray doors and all. Well, we moved the budgies and lovebird into a bigger cage, that allows them plenty of flight and play area. Jordan was not interested in this cage at all.

We let jordan fool around with the smaller cage for a while and would laugh at him sitting inside this tiny cage, looked rediculous, but he did eventually give up on the fad. Now he shows no interest what so ever.

I think it will wear off eventually but for now you must be vigilant. Not sure how you are going to let him get sick of it, maybe you could lock him in his cage each time he jumps on the tiels cage for time out. He might get the message and stop doing it so he doesn't get time out anymore.

giantfoot_truck · Post by **giantfoot_truck** » Tue May 22, 2007 12:38 am

faust1200 wrote:Lol are u serious

Well yup Im serious, if your bailey is really that obsessed with the cage like you said, then let him live in the tiels cage, and move your tiels to bailey's cage, anyway your tiels doesn't care about which cage he is living in right?
Meaning that your bird will switch their cage with each other. I dont mean they should live together...

Unless your IRN is finally bored of the tiels cage...

I mean he is obsessed with something normal and not dangerous right? Its only a cage, So let him live there, maybe he will be happier... unless he is obsessed with something unusual like staying in the toilet, that should be a problem. lol :lol:

If you dont like that way then do what Donna said, separate them in different room for a meantime to make bailey forget about the tiels cage...

Hope I helped

Post by **Lauren** » Tue May 22, 2007 3:33 am

I have the same problem with my 2. They would rather swap cages. Jibby loves to eat Yoda's food. Yoda hates it. But, its ok for Yoda to steal everything of Jibby's! :roll:

I've tried letting them decide which cage they want. But eventually Jibby realized Yoda's cage is much smaller and wants his cage back. Now, its stay in your own cage! But Yoda still trys to get Jibbys cage.
It can be annoying picking them up and putting them in their own cages but I'm hoping if I enforce the 'stay in own cage' rule everytime they will hopefully get the idea. Be persistant.

Donna is right. Toes can get bitten. Yoda likes to hang outside Jibbys cage and watch him eat his food making squeeking noises. Jibby has gone for Yodas toes when he gets fed up with someone watching him eat! I don't blame him. I hate it when someone is watching me closely eating! lol. So I have to keep picking Yoda up.. every time and placing him on his own cage.
The top of the cage can be a dominance problem. Whos the king of the castle? :lol:

They need a 'playtime' spot somewhere other than the top of the cage. Playgyms are good for getting them off the top of the cage.