Hello from the Netherlands

[nagelsan]

Hello everybody.
My name is Sandra and i live in the netherlands.
I'm fully 100 % dutch, so i hope my englisch writing is good enough for you all to understand.
I have three parrots at the moment.
First of all, the littlest one, my senegal parrot Kimmy.
She is not even a year old and a real lady.
If she want attention, she will get it!
She has picked me as her favorite person and screems when i leave the room, to make me come back.
This is'nt very loud, but can be anoying some times.
I try to ignore it, but she can hold on very long, and i can not stay at the toilet for hours hahaha.
She had a period of biting, but that's over, just a growing up thing i guess.
She loves training and is very clever, but so far i didn't know what to train besides turning around, giving a paw and opening her wings (i still have to do that with my hand, but she alows it).
Thanks to this site i can learn some more tricks and basic skills.
She doesn't talk by the way, i'll just havo to see if that ever happens.
Then i have a white cockatoo (umbrella??) named Nelis.
I've got him from people who could not take care of him anymore.
The man has an chronic healt problem, whit two parrots (also an african grey) two dogs and his first child on his way.
A cockatoo means a lot of work and time and he could not give him that anymore.
His girlfriend was either studying or working, so he had to take care of him.
Mostly he would stand outside in the garden all day, wich he didn't like very much and he would scream.
Ofcourse he got some problems with his neighbours and desided to sell the cockatoo.
We took him in and he is, if possible, the most sweet bird ever!
Het talks only two things: Nice (meaning if he gets something to eat) and wanna sleep if he wants to go to his cage, or also when he wants to be petted.
honestly, the screaming does bother me sometimes, because he does it when we eat something or prepare a meal (begging) and when he wants attention.
So right now i am searching for ways to teach him not to do that, tho say nice to get something instead of screaming etc.
But thats hard to do and hard to find the right way to do it.
Thats why i hope i can find an answer how to do this the right way, somewhere on this site.
Then we also have an Congo african grey parrot named Pim.
He blamed his owner for everything that happened during the devorce and the less attention he got in that period of time.
His owner loved him very much and tried everything, but Pim would continue to bite him real hard and would not let him get near.
His new girlfriend wasn't a parrot lover although she started to love him over the years.
Pim accepted her, but she worked most of the time, so she could not take over and give him the attention he needed.
So they decided, after trying for more then two years, to find him a better home.
Thats how he got into our home.
Pim can talk like crazy, make sounds of phones and al kinds of birds, whistles like an old man can and make a truck entering your garden backwards. (peep peep peep)
When i drink something he makes a water noices and he gives me kisses al day, real ones, almost whit his beak inside my mouth hahaha.
he really makes me laugh and want to listen to him all day.

Those are my parrots, and ofcourse my husbands parrots, but mostly mine, because i am home all day.
I would love to learn how to train all of them, because that would give them a better life, i think.
The african and senegal parrots aren't real play birds, witch means, they don't play with there toys much.
I have the 3 of them almost all of the day in the livingroom, on a standard playground, with lots of toys, food and water.
Mostly i bring them up to there cages two or three times a day, to let them rest, altough they sleep downstairs aswell, and to let them eat and drink.
In the mean time i do my shoppings or prepare my diner.
Unfortunally i have to place the cockatoo in his cage more often because of the screaming, but i really don't want to.
ignoring him won't work, so i have no other option than to place him in his cage befoure i prepare my lunch or diner or any kind of food.

If any of you have any tips, of how to train him not to scraem, that would be very helpfull.
any other training tips are welcome aswell.

thanks for reading this very long item.

kind regards

Sandra

[Army.Wifey1990]

Hello Sandra!

Welcome to the FORUM. I hope we are able to answer all your questions/concerns!

[parrotlover]

Hello Sandra!

Welcome to the FORUM. I hope we are able to answer all your questions/concerns!

Well I think Army.Wifey took my words lol But yea Welcome tothe forums!

[nagelsan]

thank you both very much.
I hope to get more out of this site than i can get out of the dutch sites.
They don't give that much info and are mostly critizizing (?) each other.

(?) can anybody tell me the right grammar of this word

[parrotlover]

For what word?

[nagelsan]

Critizizing.
I got the feeling something is wrong with my spelling of this word, but can't figure out what it is.