by Pajarita » Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:20 pm
I don't think anybody can give you any kind of answer with any certainty - I mean, nobody knows what is going on his mind... But. if you ask me, I would say that he likes that location. Is there more light in it? A nice window to the outside? There must be a reason because I am sure it's not the fact that it is smaller and has dowel perches (by the way, change them asap). I recently bought a nice new, roomy cage for my senegals. They had been in the same cage for years and, although I actually loved that cage,(big, super strong, very thin bars, easy to clean and if fit perfectly in a niche that had a window in it) it was dark green and I thoroughly dislike dark colored cages for birds (it's oppressive enough to be in a cage, if the bars are dark... well, it makes it worse, in my opinion) so I got them a nice flight cage. And, because the niche was no more, I moved it from the dining room to the living room. Well, after the first few days, Zoey Senegal was refusing to go into it. I'ver never had a single problem with this bird - I mean, I could do anything with her - open her wings, touch her entire body, turn her upside down, etc. She never even hesitated or tried to get away. But I couldn't get her into her cage for nothing! Everytime I asked her to step up, she would but, as soon as she saw I was walking toward her cage, she would fly off. Time after time after time after time... So I realized that there was something going on... I moved all the perches and bowls so they would be in the same position and height as the ones in the old cage, still no cigar. Then I started observing her and I noticed that whenever it was time for everybody to go back into their cages, she would go into Isis's cage which was lower than hers and directly in front of a window - same as her old one was. So. I switched them. I put Zoey and Sweetpea Senegal in Isis Redbelly's cage and Isis went into Zoey and Sweet's. The point I am trying to make is that parrots have preferences, some of them can be quite assertive about them, and they are smart enough to let us know what they are. Personally, I would put the large cage in the same spot as the little one because, obviously, he likes that spot.