My Cookatoo is Screaming.What Should I do?One of my Cookatoos had the same problem. He wanted attention. When he would scream I would go to the room where his cages was and get him and bring him to the room I was. We never kept him in a cage(only at night sleep). All day his cage was open for him to go in and out as he wished. He was a spoiled bird. So I had to change his behavior to stop the screaming. so this I was did and you should do the same.
Tips to address screaming for attention
- Extinguish screaming.
- Reinforce any other behavior besides screaming.
- Remember the extinction burst is a good sign! The end might be insight. Change your feeling from frustrated to hopeful when your bird really goes for it.
- If you need to leave the room, but can’t focus on training, offer another positively reinforcing activity prior to leaving the room. This may buy you a short window of time to move freely between rooms without screaming behavior. However you will still need to include training sessions at some point.
- Get some earplugs to help you cope with the screaming during the extinction burst.
- Plan to wait in the other room. Prepare in advance a quiet activity you can do when trying to deal with a screaming session.
- Leave the room immediately when your bird screams for your attention.
- Manage your activities to help set yourself up fo
