Can I train my bird not to eat her new play stand?

[k9shrink]

Hi guys,

It's been a few weeks, so I thought I'd post an update. For the first 5-8 days, I had to re-glue at least one string every night before going to bed. But eventually, Clover lost interest in the strings.

Having good new shredding and chewing toys on the stand helped a lot. One thing that especially worked great was that the top of the stand lifts off the bottom. I lifted it and put 3 toilet paper tubes on the "legs" of the top portion. She is now spending much of her chewing time chewing those up, and I can easily replace them each night.

She hasn't chewed any strings at all in the past week, even in the four days my husband took care of her while I was out of town. (Though he left her on it unsupervised once and she flew to my keyboard and ate the letter "P"). So far so good...

Sharon

[Dave]

I think the letter "P" is really overused anyway!

[zazanomore]

I'd rather have my birds eat a playstand, rather than eat my keyboard. My left key button is officially lost, and half of my keys are loose...

What we put up with for our birds

[leezard]

Congrats on winning the battle! I have to say, that play stand you made is amazing!

[SKOShields]

Is the problem eating the twine or destroying the playstand? I know how to macrame and was thinking about making some toys for my Senegal, is the hemp ok for them?

[liz]

The problem is eating the computer.

Check the thread What Has Your Bir destroyed.

[SKOShields]

Well yea I saw that, but the original post was about her bird tearing the twine off the playstand, so I didnt know if it was bc he was destroying the stand she built or if it was bc the twine was bad for the bird to digest or something.