Throwing water bowl

[SharnaC]

Lately Mango has decided that it's great fun to pick up his water bowl and throw it on the floor. He used to do this occasionally, but now he does it 2-3 times a day, soaking everything around his cage.
We've tied the bowl holder to the cage, but he can still get the actual bowl out.
How can I stop him doing this?? A couple of times we have been out for the day and come home to find it on the floor with no way of knowing how long he has been without water for. He doesn't bother with the food bowl, only the water.

 

[roxynoodle]

There are bowls that actually lock to the cage. I think I saw some on the mysafebirdstore site. A lot of people manage to successfully use them with macaws so a conure shouldn't be able to get those kind off. I agree it's something you want to stop since not only might the bird be without water, but getting it all over the bottom of the cage could allow bacteria to grow.

 

[roxynoodle]

Yes, she has plastic and SS ones:

Bird Food Cups, Water Bottles & Feeders for Bird - DISCOUNTED

 

[MissyMe83]

Good idea Roxy. I use this bowl for my birds water and as a treat cup. It attaches to the cage but the bowl itself actually comes off of the "mount" by means of turning the base. It has a grove that it slips in and turns to lock. I'm sure he couldn't turn the bowl enough to unlock it ; )

Lixit 10 oz high-density polystyrene crock BLACK - LIXIT by MY SAFE BIRD STORE

 

[SharnaC]

Thanks, guys, I will get him something like that.
Any ideas on what I can do to discourage him in the mean time? How should I react when he does it? He's already thrown it twice this morning and I just cleaned his cage!
I have no idea why it's just the water bowl that gets tipped, though I guess I should be thankful - the food bowl would make quite a mess!

 

[roxynoodle]

They do it because they think it's fun. The like the noise it makes while they are trying to get it out, and they like the mess it makes and the noise as it goes crashing. What can you say? They truly are like little kids.

Do you have a heavy crock? Maybe putting that in the bottom of the cage would solve it for now if the bird isn't strong enough to move it or pick it up?

Sorry I didn't notice you were in Oz when I posted that link. I bet there is a place there though that carries locking dishes like that.

 

[elseg]

I use a ceramic bowl made by Fenix Research.. it weighs about 500g so my bird is able to stand on the rim if it so wishes..
gl.

 

[roxynoodle]

I use a ceramic bowl made by Fenix Research.. it weighs about 500g so my bird is able to stand on the rim if it so wishes..
gl.

I use ones like that for my Grey. Sometimes she does move them around, but I bet my conure couldn't. And yes, they hold the Grey when she is perched on them.

 

[HannahW]

We use a bowl that locks to Fawkes' cage. When we first put him in his cage from the nursery tank, he liked to tip the water and food bowls over too. He realized it brought me over to his cage, and he got attention for it. Now that he can't move the bowls, he just knocks his plastic toy against the side. It sounds like he has fallen, and usually someone will come in to check on him. They are very smart, and know how to train us well.

 

[JamesC]

Ahh the great game of tossing the bowls! Rosa has recently taken up that game too. First it was her water bowl so I put one in that is much more difficult to get out. So she moved on to the food and the fruit/veggie cups. Sometimes find both of them in the bottom of the cage and a hungry bird when I come home. Brat! I'll have to get a set of the locking bowls too next time I place an order.

She needs more toys to distract her away from the bowls because she is a real destruct-o-matic with them. I got her a couple of leather toys because I thought they would be more durable. Wrong. She destroyed them both in 2 days leaving chewed up leather and the beads & such they held scattered about. With the toys gone her attention goes back to the bowls.

 

[Remy]

What about a water bottle?

 

[Barber2k3]

Hi I'm very new to this forum! So I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place or if some one already came up with an answer to the problem I had a few months ago!
My African grey parrot suddenly took to throwing his bowls out of the cage! He worked out how to line them up and pull them out if the metal rings they sit in! This drove me mad as It was wasting food and the water would go every where!
Any way I looked online and could not find a solution.
So when I worked out how to stop this I thought I would post my solution on this chat forum to hopefully help others! Hope this works for any of u guys out there with the same problem!
I have a metal cage with three feeder loops which the bowls sit into, max would twist the bowls until the little nobble thingy would line up and then he would pull out the bowls and just throw them to floor! As these loops that the bowls would sit in are metal I took a hammer to them and tapped them to make the bowls sit tighter in the loops! So far 3 months later he now can not pull the bowls out!! Obviously don't tap them to hard or u won't be able to get the bowls out like I did with one of them!
Well hope this helps others.
Kind regards
Sophie

 

[OneHorseRanch]

I use a ceramic bowl for his bathing time and I use a hamster water thing that hangs at the side of his cage. The ceramic is to heavy to move and his water container is clipped to the cage. No messes other than bath time

 

[olgalednichenko]

Lately Mango has decided that it's great fun to pick up his water bowl and throw it on the floor. He used to do this occasionally, but now he does it 2-3 times a day, soaking everything around his cage.
We've tied the bowl holder to the cage, but he can still get the actual bowl out.
How can I stop him doing this?? A couple of times we have been out for the day and come home to find it on the floor with no way of knowing how long he has been without water for. He doesn't bother with the food bowl, only the water.

he is sooo cute... what breed is he?

thanks

olga shulman lednichenko