Our Diesel is 11 months now and running rampant with sounds.
I think its because we have an open plan house and he can see and hear everything that's going on. His cage sits midway between the lounge and the kitchen, and when we are all in the kitchen and he is on his cage, he makes a loud squeaky squawk which we think is his 'flock call' to us. He only does it at this time...we ignore it as we are trying to encourage his talking. When he breaks into 'Hullo how are yooooooouuuu!!!' we reward him with talking back and attention, no matter what we are doing.
He now says 'Peekaboo' (learnt pretty quickly after watching my daughter jump out from behind doors and call it at him!) also 'Good Boyyyyy' and 'Deeezlee weeeezle weeeeeeeeeeezle', and 'Hop up' Again I think because these were all said with enthusiasm at him, usually when we are walking in the front door.
It seems that he learns things faster when we are exuberant and upbeat with him. I thought at first this enthusiasm might scare him, but he seems to just love it.
He does have a loud Cockatoo-like squaaaaawk which he does sometimes repetitively, also, I think when we are not paying him enough attention. Again we ignore this....and hey presto, slowly it seems to be disappearing...
I think the trick for us is slowly-slowly, reinforce the good, ignore the bad and lots of love and attention....oh yeah, not forgetting the endless stream of destructible fun toys and good food.


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