Unwanted Alarm Clock

alan80 · Post by **alan80** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:45 am

We are having a small problem with our alarm clock and I'm not to sure of how to go about fixing it. We cover Bella's cage at night, so that she doesnt get up with the morning light. But as soon as she hears a the toilet flush in the morning she will start squalking and wont stop. Even while she is still covered with no one in the room she will squalk for 2-3 hours. Problem is that Mia gets up at 4am for work and the rest of the house (which still has a few hours sleep before they get up) has to try to sleep through the noise until we finally get up. I know its attention seeking, and she doesnt get rewarded when we do get up. I have no idea on how to convince her not to do it.

Post by **kyria** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:27 am

Wow Alan thats a hard one. My birds are all down the back end of the house in a birdroom, so we are not troubled much by any noise. I do think however Jordan use to call, until he realised we weren't coming, then he began to talk (which got him all the attention in the world) so now, he talks when he hears us, he asks "What are you doing ?" then says "Step Up?" this is his routine to get us in to bring him out to play.

I really am no help as I have always had the birds in their own birdroom.

Let me think a while and I might come up with something or someone else with more experience with this should be along shortly.

good Luck !

catschair2 · Post by **catschair2** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:00 pm

How funny! I am almost always up around the same time as the fids in the summer and feel a bit guilty for waking them in the winter. Covers don't seem to do much good when the kids are ready to get up (either theirs or the ones over my head!)

Post by **Lauren** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:38 pm

I had the same problem with my green alarm clock. But my problem was as soon as the sun reached the horizon its 'Everybody UP time!' and he would do his annoying 'I want out' scream every 2 seconds. I've tried covering the cage and that doesn't work. What I did was just ignore him and put a pillow over my head! Don't even call out or say 'Quiet'. It can be annoying and very frustrating. Especially when you live in a small unit block like me. But he seems to have stopped now. It took a few weeks for him to get the idea that its still sleepy time and he doesn't get what he wants by screaming at me. Now, he just quietly eats his breakfast in his cage every morning until I open the cage and open the blinds.

I havn't found a better way to deal with it accept ignore the attention screaming and make the room as dark as possible. (Shutting blinds/curtains)

catschair2 · Post by **catschair2** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:42 pm

Maybe my problem is that all the fids wake up then and join in the din (honestly I don't know if Magellan starts it or is an innocently awakened bystander)

WasasMum · Post by **WasasMum** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:59 pm

My Wasa did the screaming thing for only the first week I had hiim.
Now it is me who wakes him up in the morning and boy oh boy do i get the death stare. Sometimes he won't even get out of his cage til he has had his breakfast, then he will start jabbering away and I know its time for him to go on his log for an hour, and then we fight about going back in the cage before I go to work. Now he really only screams if I am in a different room on the computer, and he wants to come in and try rip the keys off the keyboard.

I found a nice dark cover worked on the tiels we used to have, as they screamed more than Wasa.

Gemstone · Post by **Gemstone** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:34 pm

Amazon makes noise in the morning when he feels everyone else should be up, he isnt caged in the morning so he will either come down the hallway to the bedrooms adn make noise outside, he will give up and go back to the lounge and play with his toys until sharlene gets up to go for a shower and he will go for a shower too

Post by **ringneck** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:49 am

Hey alan80,

What you might want to do is have another room dedicated just for sleeping. Do you have an extra room that can be isolated? If so, take your ringneck inside the isolated room before bedtime and bring him/her out when you are ready to get up. A small study room works well.

Inside the room, be sure to cover the cage. This will help associate your ringneck as a sleeping area. I house my pet ringneck in another room, and once it gets late, he continually tells me…wanna go night night…wanna go night night. Once there he settles down for the night and does not wake up until late morning.

Hope this helps & keep us updated, :wink:

Imran Chaudhry