need advice on toilet training

[stephie]

HELLO,MY 9 MONTH OLD CONURE CALLED MIKEY IS ALWAYS POOING EVERYWHERE AND ON EVERYTHING INCLUDING PEOPLES CLOTHES AND KITCHEN WORK TOPS, I WAS WONDERING WETHER YOU CAN TOILET TRAIN HIM AND STOP HIM DOING IT ALL THE TIME.

 

[australianaviculture]

Check out Ambers thread
http://www.parrotforums.com/conures/13074-toilet-trained-my-jenday.html

 

[mygirl]

my eclectus is 100% toilet trained all we did was keep putting her on her stand and when she done poo praise her and give her a snack same as a puppy really i found it easy to do, now she tells us when she wants to go and she never poos anywhere exect her cage and stand

 

[Amber]

Thanks Clint!

My boy pretty much did the ground work himself. He figured out I didn't like me or my stuff being pooped on himself by my reactions to it (Not bad reactions, just annoyance. He picked up that I didn't like it. Yelling or scolding birds rarely works IMHO, they find it amusing. Any negative re-enforcement, like covering a loud birds cage, doesn't really work unless it's near instant so it's connected.). From their it was just a matter of redirecting the behaviour of pooping to the cage and letting him know it was encouraged their! I did this much like mygirl. I'd carry him back every 15 mins, and give him a sunflower seed or whatever other treat I had for going. Didn't take him long to get the gist of it. Now 80% of the time he will fly back himself to go. Sometimes he gets so absorbed in playing with something he will forget. It's rare though, we've only had one accident in the last 2 or 3 weeks. the other 20% I still carry him back every 30 mins to an hour, especially if he is has been absorbed in something for a long time and may have forgotten.

I don't think it would be hard to do, just time consuming. Alex had it half figured out already, not to go on me or my things because I didn't like it, and I think that helped because he wanted to avoid doing so. Training a bird that doesn't already have that concept in his mind may be a bit harder. I was only extending on Alex's existing thoughts, and mainly not because I didn't want him pooping on my stuff (though that is a plus!), I was worried he's become like one of those dogs that has been scolded so much they think pooping ANYWHERE, even outside (or in Alex's case, the cage), is bad.