Woman and Cockatoo Argue Over Stuff

[Jasmine333]

Here's one with a woman arguing with a Cockatoo. Pay special attention to what the Cockatoo says after the woman says "I never told you you could eat the table".

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtexHdgRi9I"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtexHdgRi9I[/ame]

 

[SailBoat]

I will fully admit that I do not know Cockatoo, but even to an Amazon Snob, there was clearly two separate conversations occurring there. Plus Dad (the cameraman) was clearly being drawn into the mixed discussion.

I'm betting the table will be crewed once again and in the near future!

Thanks for the Smile!!!

 

[Siobhan]

I can't understand what Jazzy says. I can't understand most of what my own 'too says. LOL

 

[ParrotGenie]

I saw that video a while ago, my female U2 Baby love to argue at times if I won't let her destroy something, or get her way. She know exactly what she trying to say. One time she throw her food bowl at me and yelled at me for not letting her chew the wood trimming. She do a quick bite not hard, but enough to get the point across, if she gets upset at me for a reason. My male U2 usually will just hiss at me if he get upset, or start to argue. Cockatoo's are impressively smart. Baby knows how to pick locks and not to grab locking part to try to push button, but will shim down a piece of wood from her toy and shove into spacing to defect the latch, to open door, she even figured out how to remove bolts to lift food door enough to pop it out of its hinges and remove it. She wasn't trained to do this, she figured it out on her own. Then she when to the cockatiels cages and lifted the doors and let them out. That room was a huge mess that day needless to say when I came home. Thankfully no wood chewed up, or birds hurt, but curtain was a goner, more likely thanks to Cooper. Shockingly Cockatiels were behaved as they stay by each other and stay on tree most of the time while bigger birds were causing havoc. Now if I have to leave them for a few hours and not home and can't take them with me, I have next door neighbor take them to babysit them, or checkup on them.

So yes that table will be chewed, if it hasn't been already as soon as she not looking, or moves away from it long enough. My male U2 love to chew curtains and literary will wait till I turn the corner and actually peek out to see if I am looking at him before he flies to a curtain, he even walk slowly instead of flying in hopes I don't hear him and catch him going to a curtain. Then when I call him down, he come down, but he will hiss at me for stopping him. I leave him out with Baby at work and they talk to people and play around as have toys and stands they can play on, as soon as I was out of sight he at times would go straight for the back-out curtain I have for the custom walk in bird aviary I built them. It was funny as the customers reactions as people that didn't see the birds before would say you have a large white bird that flew from around the corner to the curtain and is now lifting the curtain and never seen a bird like that? Then you get the ones that had, or have a cockatoo before and never seen one that well tamed and allow to free roam and fly and not attack anyone. Except for the one time Baby bite a lady in the nose way before I adopted her, as won't have allow her to pick her up but last owner didn't know any better and lady knew it was her fault as she grab her without asking the last owner as she would pet her and talk to her several times, but 3 years later she came back and I taught her how to handle birds properly and she pick up baby all the time now without getting bitten and adopted a sulphur crested cockatoo last year, as she love birds and learned from mistakes and now works at a rescue as well.

Cockatoo's in general are the most misunderstood parrot and quite intelligent and adapt faster then most people believe. I been working with and training birds, including macaws since a kid and Cockatoos are a completely whole another different level and they end up training you and learn as fast as most humans do. They have the intelligent of a human, or a primate and do adapt well to most if treated correctly. You can tell the lady in the video take good care of that bird and even has cage out where they are at during the day. Hence why I believe they sure have never been bought into captivity as they have the intelligent of a primate and very social animals and complex to meet their needs and not a pet like a cat, or dog and more of a companion that needs to spend a lot of time with you as they would with flock members in the wild. Yes they get into trouble, can be very destructive and argue with you and have selective listening at times, but quite rewarding to have around if you understand them and have the time for them and not left in a cage. Reason why most people have issues with them and they get re-homed a lot, is they require tons of attention and very social and loud in nature. They are not the bird you would buy as a pet period, or on impulse and not as forgiving as most other animals. They are definitely more closer to like raising a child and they can live as long as you do, if not outlive you, as Baby my female U2 did with her original owner that died of COPD.

My bird at law Baby also ironically a U2 as well think that bird has a strong case and sure be allowed to eat the table after watching the video. Cooper my male U2 states the table cloth would be ok to eat and shred.

 

[Jasmine333]

I saw that video a while ago, my female U2 Baby love to argue at times if I won't let her destroy something, or get her way. She know exactly what she trying to say. One time she throw her food bowl at me and yelled at me for not letting her chew the wood trimming. She do a quick bite not hard, but enough to get the point across, if she gets upset at me for a reason. My male U2 usually will just hiss at me if he get upset, or start to argue. Cockatoo's are impressively smart. Baby knows how to pick locks and not to grab locking part to try to push button, but will shim down a piece of wood from her toy and shove into spacing to defect the latch, to open door, she even figured out how to remove bolts to lift food door enough to pop it out of its hinges and remove it. She wasn't trained to do this, she figured it out on her own. Then she when to the cockatiels cages and lifted the doors and let them out. That room was a huge mess that day needless to say when I came home. Thankfully no wood chewed up, or birds hurt, but curtain was a goner, more likely thanks to Cooper. Shockingly Cockatiels were behaved as they stay by each other and stay on tree most of the time while bigger birds were causing havoc. Now if I have to leave them for a few hours and not home and can't take them with me, I have next door neighbor take them to babysit them, or checkup on them.

So yes that table will be chewed, if it hasn't been already as soon as she not looking, or moves away from it long enough. My male U2 love to chew curtains and literary will wait till I turn the corner and actually peek out to see if I am looking at him before he flies to a curtain, he even walk slowly instead of flying in hopes I don't hear him and catch him going to a curtain. Then when I call him down, he come down, but he will hiss at me for stopping him. I leave him out with Baby at work and they talk to people and play around as have toys and stands they can play on, as soon as I was out of sight he at times would go straight for the back-out curtain I have for the custom walk in bird aviary I built them. It was funny as the customers reactions as people that didn't see the birds before would say you have a large white bird that flew from around the corner to the curtain and is now lifting the curtain and never seen a bird like that? Then you get the ones that had, or have a cockatoo before and never seen one that well tamed and allow to free roam and fly and not attack anyone. Except for the one time Baby bite a lady in the nose way before I adopted her, as won't have allow her to pick her up but last owner didn't know any better and lady knew it was her fault as she grab her without asking the last owner as she would pet her and talk to her several times, but 3 years later she came back and I taught her how to handle birds properly and she pick up baby all the time now without getting bitten and adopted a sulphur crested cockatoo last year, as she love birds and learned from mistakes and now works at a rescue as well.

Cockatoo's in general are the most misunderstood parrot and quite intelligent and adapt faster then most people believe. I been working with and training birds, including macaws since a kid and Cockatoos are a completely whole another different level and they end up training you and learn as fast as most humans do. They have the intelligent of a human, or a primate and do adapt well to most if treated correctly. You can tell the lady in the video take good care of that bird and even has cage out where they are at during the day. Hence why I believe they sure have never been bought into captivity as they have the intelligent of a primate and very social animals and complex to meet their needs and not a pet like a cat, or dog and more of a companion that needs to spend a lot of time with you as they would with flock members in the wild. Yes they get into trouble, can be very destructive and argue with you and have selective listening at times, but quite rewarding to have around if you understand them and have the time for them and not left in a cage. Reason why most people have issues with them and they get re-homed a lot, is they require tons of attention and very social and loud in nature. They are not the bird you would buy as a pet period, or on impulse and not as forgiving as most other animals. They are definitely more closer to like raising a child and they can live as long as you do, if not outlive you, as Baby my female U2 did with her original owner that died of COPD.

My bird at law Baby also ironically a U2 as well think that bird has a strong case and sure be allowed to eat the table after watching the video. Cooper my male U2 states the table cloth would be ok to eat and shred.

Thanks for your post and it's quite informative. I've read Cockatoos require a lot of attention and that if they don't get it can be very aggressive. I'm not really sure a Cockatoo would be for me, as it scares me some when they raise the feathers on their heads. If a person knows enough about them to deal with their actions that's great.

 

[noodles123]

I saw that video a while ago, my female U2 Baby love to argue at times if I won't let her destroy something, or get her way. She know exactly what she trying to say. One time she throw her food bowl at me and yelled at me for not letting her chew the wood trimming. She do a quick bite not hard, but enough to get the point across, if she gets upset at me for a reason. My male U2 usually will just hiss at me if he get upset, or start to argue. Cockatoo's are impressively smart. Baby knows how to pick locks and not to grab locking part to try to push button, but will shim down a piece of wood from her toy and shove into spacing to defect the latch, to open door, she even figured out how to remove bolts to lift food door enough to pop it out of its hinges and remove it. She wasn't trained to do this, she figured it out on her own. Then she when to the cockatiels cages and lifted the doors and let them out. That room was a huge mess that day needless to say when I came home. Thankfully no wood chewed up, or birds hurt, but curtain was a goner, more likely thanks to Cooper. Shockingly Cockatiels were behaved as they stay by each other and stay on tree most of the time while bigger birds were causing havoc. Now if I have to leave them for a few hours and not home and can't take them with me, I have next door neighbor take them to babysit them, or checkup on them.

So yes that table will be chewed, if it hasn't been already as soon as she not looking, or moves away from it long enough. My male U2 love to chew curtains and literary will wait till I turn the corner and actually peek out to see if I am looking at him before he flies to a curtain, he even walk slowly instead of flying in hopes I don't hear him and catch him going to a curtain. Then when I call him down, he come down, but he will hiss at me for stopping him. I leave him out with Baby at work and they talk to people and play around as have toys and stands they can play on, as soon as I was out of sight he at times would go straight for the back-out curtain I have for the custom walk in bird aviary I built them. It was funny as the customers reactions as people that didn't see the birds before would say you have a large white bird that flew from around the corner to the curtain and is now lifting the curtain and never seen a bird like that? Then you get the ones that had, or have a cockatoo before and never seen one that well tamed and allow to free roam and fly and not attack anyone. Except for the one time Baby bite a lady in the nose way before I adopted her, as won't have allow her to pick her up but last owner didn't know any better and lady knew it was her fault as she grab her without asking the last owner as she would pet her and talk to her several times, but 3 years later she came back and I taught her how to handle birds properly and she pick up baby all the time now without getting bitten and adopted a sulphur crested cockatoo last year, as she love birds and learned from mistakes and now works at a rescue as well.

Cockatoo's in general are the most misunderstood parrot and quite intelligent and adapt faster then most people believe. I been working with and training birds, including macaws since a kid and Cockatoos are a completely whole another different level and they end up training you and learn as fast as most humans do. They have the intelligent of a human, or a primate and do adapt well to most if treated correctly. You can tell the lady in the video take good care of that bird and even has cage out where they are at during the day. Hence why I believe they sure have never been bought into captivity as they have the intelligent of a primate and very social animals and complex to meet their needs and not a pet like a cat, or dog and more of a companion that needs to spend a lot of time with you as they would with flock members in the wild. Yes they get into trouble, can be very destructive and argue with you and have selective listening at times, but quite rewarding to have around if you understand them and have the time for them and not left in a cage. Reason why most people have issues with them and they get re-homed a lot, is they require tons of attention and very social and loud in nature. They are not the bird you would buy as a pet period, or on impulse and not as forgiving as most other animals. They are definitely more closer to like raising a child and they can live as long as you do, if not outlive you, as Baby my female U2 did with her original owner that died of COPD.

My bird at law Baby also ironically a U2 as well think that bird has a strong case and sure be allowed to eat the table after watching the video. Cooper my male U2 states the table cloth would be ok to eat and shred.

Thanks for your post and it's quite informative. I've read Cockatoos require a lot of attention and that if they don't get it can be very aggressive. I'm not really sure a Cockatoo would be for me, as it scares me some when they raise the feathers on their heads. If a person knows enough about them to deal with their actions that's great.

I am not sure if what you said above means that you might be thinking about getting one....lol (or if you just were trying to be nice when describing your thoughts on them)...BUT

Unless you have a lot of experience with cockatoos specifically DO NOT get one. They are the most re-homed of all parrot species. I love them- I love mine, but they are very different from other large parrots and they are more work than a human toddler x2 in many ways. Even if you have had other large parrots, a cockatoo like that is not the same. They are super complicated and the aggression can come from many things---not just too little attention, but too much attention. They want to be glued to your hip 24/7 and do not understand that you have a life outside of them. This means a lot of "tough love" on top of hundreds of other quirks etc. YES--- they are adorable...but they are like plunging into the deep end of the crazy/high-maintenance pool (they aren't really "crazy", but they kind of are...it takes a lot of work to keep them well-behaved and a "well-behaved" cockatoo is still crazy by most standards lol).

 

[Jasmine333]

I saw that video a while ago, my female U2 Baby love to argue at times if I won't let her destroy something, or get her way. She know exactly what she trying to say. One time she throw her food bowl at me and yelled at me for not letting her chew the wood trimming. She do a quick bite not hard, but enough to get the point across, if she gets upset at me for a reason. My male U2 usually will just hiss at me if he get upset, or start to argue. Cockatoo's are impressively smart. Baby knows how to pick locks and not to grab locking part to try to push button, but will shim down a piece of wood from her toy and shove into spacing to defect the latch, to open door, she even figured out how to remove bolts to lift food door enough to pop it out of its hinges and remove it. She wasn't trained to do this, she figured it out on her own. Then she when to the cockatiels cages and lifted the doors and let them out. That room was a huge mess that day needless to say when I came home. Thankfully no wood chewed up, or birds hurt, but curtain was a goner, more likely thanks to Cooper. Shockingly Cockatiels were behaved as they stay by each other and stay on tree most of the time while bigger birds were causing havoc. Now if I have to leave them for a few hours and not home and can't take them with me, I have next door neighbor take them to babysit them, or checkup on them.

So yes that table will be chewed, if it hasn't been already as soon as she not looking, or moves away from it long enough. My male U2 love to chew curtains and literary will wait till I turn the corner and actually peek out to see if I am looking at him before he flies to a curtain, he even walk slowly instead of flying in hopes I don't hear him and catch him going to a curtain. Then when I call him down, he come down, but he will hiss at me for stopping him. I leave him out with Baby at work and they talk to people and play around as have toys and stands they can play on, as soon as I was out of sight he at times would go straight for the back-out curtain I have for the custom walk in bird aviary I built them. It was funny as the customers reactions as people that didn't see the birds before would say you have a large white bird that flew from around the corner to the curtain and is now lifting the curtain and never seen a bird like that? Then you get the ones that had, or have a cockatoo before and never seen one that well tamed and allow to free roam and fly and not attack anyone. Except for the one time Baby bite a lady in the nose way before I adopted her, as won't have allow her to pick her up but last owner didn't know any better and lady knew it was her fault as she grab her without asking the last owner as she would pet her and talk to her several times, but 3 years later she came back and I taught her how to handle birds properly and she pick up baby all the time now without getting bitten and adopted a sulphur crested cockatoo last year, as she love birds and learned from mistakes and now works at a rescue as well.

Cockatoo's in general are the most misunderstood parrot and quite intelligent and adapt faster then most people believe. I been working with and training birds, including macaws since a kid and Cockatoos are a completely whole another different level and they end up training you and learn as fast as most humans do. They have the intelligent of a human, or a primate and do adapt well to most if treated correctly. You can tell the lady in the video take good care of that bird and even has cage out where they are at during the day. Hence why I believe they sure have never been bought into captivity as they have the intelligent of a primate and very social animals and complex to meet their needs and not a pet like a cat, or dog and more of a companion that needs to spend a lot of time with you as they would with flock members in the wild. Yes they get into trouble, can be very destructive and argue with you and have selective listening at times, but quite rewarding to have around if you understand them and have the time for them and not left in a cage. Reason why most people have issues with them and they get re-homed a lot, is they require tons of attention and very social and loud in nature. They are not the bird you would buy as a pet period, or on impulse and not as forgiving as most other animals. They are definitely more closer to like raising a child and they can live as long as you do, if not outlive you, as Baby my female U2 did with her original owner that died of COPD.

My bird at law Baby also ironically a U2 as well think that bird has a strong case and sure be allowed to eat the table after watching the video. Cooper my male U2 states the table cloth would be ok to eat and shred.

Thanks for your post and it's quite informative. I've read Cockatoos require a lot of attention and that if they don't get it can be very aggressive. I'm not really sure a Cockatoo would be for me, as it scares me some when they raise the feathers on their heads. If a person knows enough about them to deal with their actions that's great.

I am not sure if what you said above means that you might be thinking about getting one....lol (or if you just were trying to be nice when describing your thoughts on them)...BUT

Unless you have a lot of experience with cockatoos specifically DO NOT get one. They are the most re-homed of all parrot species. I love them- I love mine, but they are very different from other large parrots and they are more work than a human toddler x2 in many ways. Even if you have had other large parrots, a cockatoo like that is not the same. They are super complicated and the aggression can come from many things---not just too little attention, but too much attention. They want to be glued to your hip 24/7 and do not understand that you have a life outside of them. This means a lot of "tough love" on top of hundreds of other quirks etc. YES--- they are adorable...but they are like plunging into the deep end of the crazy/high-maintenance pool (they aren't really "crazy", but they kind of are...it takes a lot of work to keep them well-behaved and a "well-behaved" cockatoo is still crazy by most standards lol).

If you were responding to my post sorry if you misunderstood me, but no I'm definitely not thinking of getting a Cockatoo. They are pretty birds, but I don't feel it would be right for me.

 

[noodles123]

Thanks for your post and it's quite informative. I've read Cockatoos require a lot of attention and that if they don't get it can be very aggressive. I'm not really sure a Cockatoo would be for me, as it scares me some when they raise the feathers on their heads. If a person knows enough about them to deal with their actions that's great.

I am not sure if what you said above means that you might be thinking about getting one....lol (or if you just were trying to be nice when describing your thoughts on them)...BUT

Unless you have a lot of experience with cockatoos specifically DO NOT get one. They are the most re-homed of all parrot species. I love them- I love mine, but they are very different from other large parrots and they are more work than a human toddler x2 in many ways. Even if you have had other large parrots, a cockatoo like that is not the same. They are super complicated and the aggression can come from many things---not just too little attention, but too much attention. They want to be glued to your hip 24/7 and do not understand that you have a life outside of them. This means a lot of "tough love" on top of hundreds of other quirks etc. YES--- they are adorable...but they are like plunging into the deep end of the crazy/high-maintenance pool (they aren't really "crazy", but they kind of are...it takes a lot of work to keep them well-behaved and a "well-behaved" cockatoo is still crazy by most standards lol).

If you were responding to my post sorry if you misunderstood me, but no I'm definitely not thinking of getting a Cockatoo. They are pretty birds, but I don't feel it would be right for me.

Sorry- I wondered if I had---Just wanted to make sure because if you were on the fence and fearing the crest feathers, I wanted to help you make up your mind lol.

 

[ParrotGenie]

Cockatoo's are definitely not for most people. The smaller species are not as bad and not as demanding as have a little corella cockatoo name frankie as he way more layback and not as demanding, or as destructive as my U2's, but the larger ones like umbrellas and moluccan are on the hot sheet for good reasons. They have the temperament of most humans and intelligent as well and quite demanding as a result. They are quite rewarding as well once you get past all the stages of learning how to adapt to them. My U2's especially Baby as she was the first in my flock goes everywhere and travels with me on my shoulder and is free flight trained as well as potty train. She does as well have a temper and my most aggressive and destructive bird as well. I had people offer me way above what I paid for her and won't give her away even for a million bucks as don't know what I would do without her. She a family member and best friend to me as well as my other birds.

If your thinking about adapting a cockatoo, or any other bird, I suggest go to a rescue first and work there for a while, or meet and get to know the birds and learn how to handle them. Then you can see noise level and required cleanup and personality of the birds and etc and to see if that particular bird will be a good fit, usually it the bird that picks you. Like Baby my U2 she pick me as no one could handle her reliably and first day working on a project she was sitting on her stand as she done for years and put her foot out and I pick her up and she didn't attack me, or bite me and ended up bonding to me. She before that would attack and hiss anyone that came near her, or near her space, she would even come down her stand and chase people. last owner could barely handle her as she was given to them by the mother sons as she past away of COPD and he couldn't handle her and baby pretty much almost took his finger off, even cracking the bone sending him to the hospital, so he sold her to them, as he was going to drop her off at a rescue before that as he fear her and didn't want to just keep her in a cage, they offer to buy her, when another customer told them the story. He dealt with wildlife as hawks and etc. The last owner was shocked that she adapted to me so quickly and didn't get attacked. I ended up adopting her off of them after training her for several months. She taught me a lot and had tons of experience with large and small birds, but she was way different. Now very social and well behaved from what she was before. I take her to work with me and at stores and etc and she sit on my shoulder even on car rides. I rarely use a carrier unless really cold outside. Even through she fully free flight trained I harness trained her as well for public as she use to fly off to get to something of interest, so harness trained her and took me only 2 days that how quick they learn. The first day was hard as she would hiss at me and at the harness arguing at bluff biting, but won't bite, but pretend she would to try to scare me, I would just give her a few minute break and try again till she allow it over her head and on second day she realized it meant going outside, so she accepted it and now will even lift her wing and help me put it on her. Cooper was same day and didn't give me a hard time at all, as he likely was harnessed trained at some point. Don't really need it for him as he stay on shoulder when out in public and don't just fly off like Baby does at time. He put his head up and bounce to let me know when he wants to fly. Someone at some point flight trained him and other training as I didn't really have to, to come think about it, didn't really had to train him at all, he was even potty trained and would wait till I got out of car and step off shoulder and poo. Baby it took me about a year.

Before meeting baby I was looking to adopt a African grey from a rescue I was working at the time, I wasn't even thinking about a cockatoo as know how aggressive they usually are. Now I have 3 of them over the 3 to 4 years since getting Baby. Cooper is my rescue. He was a rescue as he plucked most of his feather out and in bad health with liver issues and infections as they kept him in a dirty rusted small cage with sunflower seeds in back of a garage as they didn't want the noise inside their house. Likely second owner, or bird flipper as he was professional trained at some point and was very social off the bat. He cost me over 2k in vet bills in the first year and tons of bonding to get him back to 100%. He since molted most his feathers back, fully flighted and has fully recovered and even mated to my female U2 as now they are a pair. That I was surprised as Baby is picky and usually don't get along well with other birds, I actually kept her separated for the first couple of months, she accepted his bonding request first time around from meeting him and then they started to mate shortly and a year later inseparable as if I pick up one, I have to pick them both up within a few minutes, or they fly and call out to each other.


Cockatoos in general is like owning a primate, they are not the bird for faint of heart and a large lifetime commitment.

 

[Jasmine333]

I am not sure if what you said above means that you might be thinking about getting one....lol (or if you just were trying to be nice when describing your thoughts on them)...BUT

Unless you have a lot of experience with cockatoos specifically DO NOT get one. They are the most re-homed of all parrot species. I love them- I love mine, but they are very different from other large parrots and they are more work than a human toddler x2 in many ways. Even if you have had other large parrots, a cockatoo like that is not the same. They are super complicated and the aggression can come from many things---not just too little attention, but too much attention. They want to be glued to your hip 24/7 and do not understand that you have a life outside of them. This means a lot of "tough love" on top of hundreds of other quirks etc. YES--- they are adorable...but they are like plunging into the deep end of the crazy/high-maintenance pool (they aren't really "crazy", but they kind of are...it takes a lot of work to keep them well-behaved and a "well-behaved" cockatoo is still crazy by most standards lol).

If you were responding to my post sorry if you misunderstood me, but no I'm definitely not thinking of getting a Cockatoo. They are pretty birds, but I don't feel it would be right for me.

Sorry- I wondered if I had---Just wanted to make sure because if you were on the fence and fearing the crest feathers, I wanted to help you make uphttps://youtu.be/Jsxc848Rasc?t=57
your mind lol.

That's ok, appreciate your concern. No, I decided a while back a Cockatoo was not for me.

 

[Jasmine333]

Cockatoo's are definitely not for most people. The smaller species are not as bad and not as demanding as have a little corella cockatoo name frankie as he way more layback and not as demanding, or as destructive as my U2's, but the larger ones like umbrellas and moluccan are on the hot sheet for good reasons. They have the temperament of most humans and intelligent as well and quite demanding as a result. They are quite rewarding as well once you get past all the stages of learning how to adapt to them. My U2's especially Baby as she was the first in my flock goes everywhere and travels with me on my shoulder and is free flight trained as well as potty train. She does as well have a temper and my most aggressive and destructive bird as well. I had people offer me way above what I paid for her and won't give her away even for a million bucks as don't know what I would do without her. She a family member and best friend to me as well as my other birds.

If your thinking about adapting a cockatoo, or any other bird, I suggest go to a rescue first and work there for a while, or meet and get to know the birds and learn how to handle them. Then you can see noise level and required cleanup and personality of the birds and etc and to see if that particular bird will be a good fit, usually it the bird that picks you. Like Baby my U2 she pick me as no one could handle her reliably and first day working on a project she was sitting on her stand as she done for years and put her foot out and I pick her up and she didn't attack me, or bite me and ended up bonding to me. She before that would attack and hiss anyone that came near her, or near her space, she would even come down her stand and chase people. last owner could barely handle her as she was given to them by the mother sons as she past away of COPD and he couldn't handle her and baby pretty much almost took his finger off, even cracking the bone sending him to the hospital, so he sold her to them, as he was going to drop her off at a rescue before that as he fear her and didn't want to just keep her in a cage, they offer to buy her, when another customer told them the story. He dealt with wildlife as hawks and etc. The last owner was shocked that she adapted to me so quickly and didn't get attacked. I ended up adopting her off of them after training her for several months. She taught me a lot and had tons of experience with large and small birds, but she was way different. Now very social and well behaved from what she was before. I take her to work with me and at stores and etc and she sit on my shoulder even on car rides. I rarely use a carrier unless really cold outside. Even through she fully free flight trained I harness trained her as well for public as she use to fly off to get to something of interest, so harness trained her and took me only 2 days that how quick they learn. The first day was hard as she would hiss at me and at the harness arguing at bluff biting, but won't bite, but pretend she would to try to scare me, I would just give her a few minute break and try again till she allow it over her head and on second day she realized it meant going outside, so she accepted it and now will even lift her wing and help me put it on her. Cooper was same day and didn't give me a hard time at all, as he likely was harnessed trained at some point. Don't really need it for him as he stay on shoulder when out in public and don't just fly off like Baby does at time. He put his head up and bounce to let me know when he wants to fly. Someone at some point flight trained him and other training as I didn't really have to, to come think about it, didn't really had to train him at all, he was even potty trained and would wait till I got out of car and step off shoulder and poo. Baby it took me about a year.

Before meeting baby I was looking to adopt a African grey from a rescue I was working at the time, I wasn't even thinking about a cockatoo as know how aggressive they usually are. Now I have 3 of them over the 3 to 4 years since getting Baby. Cooper is my rescue. He was a rescue as he plucked most of his feather out and in bad health with liver issues and infections as they kept him in a dirty rusted small cage with sunflower seeds in back of a garage as they didn't want the noise inside their house. Likely second owner, or bird flipper as he was professional trained at some point and was very social off the bat. He cost me over 2k in vet bills in the first year and tons of bonding to get him back to 100%. He since molted most his feathers back, fully flighted and has fully recovered and even mated to my female U2 as now they are a pair. That I was surprised as Baby is picky and usually don't get along well with other birds, I actually kept her separated for the first couple of months, she accepted his bonding request first time around from meeting him and then they started to mate shortly and a year later inseparable as if I pick up one, I have to pick them both up within a few minutes, or they fly and call out to each other.
https://youtu.be/Jsxc848Rasc?t=57

Cockatoos in general is like owning a primate, they are not the bird for faint of heart and a large lifetime commitment.

That's great you have such a special bond with your birds. If I had that I wouldn't part with them either. You mentioned about the Greys, my brother had one for many years that talked, and one of the things he'd say when a cat walked under the cage was "damned cat"!.

 

[ParrotGenie]

Cockatoo's are definitely not for most people. The smaller species are not as bad and not as demanding as have a little corella cockatoo name frankie as he way more layback and not as demanding, or as destructive as my U2's, but the larger ones like umbrellas and moluccan are on the hot sheet for good reasons. They have the temperament of most humans and intelligent as well and quite demanding as a result. They are quite rewarding as well once you get past all the stages of learning how to adapt to them. My U2's especially Baby as she was the first in my flock goes everywhere and travels with me on my shoulder and is free flight trained as well as potty train. She does as well have a temper and my most aggressive and destructive bird as well. I had people offer me way above what I paid for her and won't give her away even for a million bucks as don't know what I would do without her. She a family member and best friend to me as well as my other birds.

If your thinking about adapting a cockatoo, or any other bird, I suggest go to a rescue first and work there for a while, or meet and get to know the birds and learn how to handle them. Then you can see noise level and required cleanup and personality of the birds and etc and to see if that particular bird will be a good fit, usually it the bird that picks you. Like Baby my U2 she pick me as no one could handle her reliably and first day working on a project she was sitting on her stand as she done for years and put her foot out and I pick her up and she didn't attack me, or bite me and ended up bonding to me. She before that would attack and hiss anyone that came near her, or near her space, she would even come down her stand and chase people. last owner could barely handle her as she was given to them by the mother sons as she past away of COPD and he couldn't handle her and baby pretty much almost took his finger off, even cracking the bone sending him to the hospital, so he sold her to them, as he was going to drop her off at a rescue before that as he fear her and didn't want to just keep her in a cage, they offer to buy her, when another customer told them the story. He dealt with wildlife as hawks and etc. The last owner was shocked that she adapted to me so quickly and didn't get attacked. I ended up adopting her off of them after training her for several months. She taught me a lot and had tons of experience with large and small birds, but she was way different. Now very social and well behaved from what she was before. I take her to work with me and at stores and etc and she sit on my shoulder even on car rides. I rarely use a carrier unless really cold outside. Even through she fully free flight trained I harness trained her as well for public as she use to fly off to get to something of interest, so harness trained her and took me only 2 days that how quick they learn. The first day was hard as she would hiss at me and at the harness arguing at bluff biting, but won't bite, but pretend she would to try to scare me, I would just give her a few minute break and try again till she allow it over her head and on second day she realized it meant going outside, so she accepted it and now will even lift her wing and help me put it on her. Cooper was same day and didn't give me a hard time at all, as he likely was harnessed trained at some point. Don't really need it for him as he stay on shoulder when out in public and don't just fly off like Baby does at time. He put his head up and bounce to let me know when he wants to fly. Someone at some point flight trained him and other training as I didn't really have to, to come think about it, didn't really had to train him at all, he was even potty trained and would wait till I got out of car and step off shoulder and poo. Baby it took me about a year.

Before meeting baby I was looking to adopt a African grey from a rescue I was working at the time, I wasn't even thinking about a cockatoo as know how aggressive they usually are. Now I have 3 of them over the 3 to 4 years since getting Baby. Cooper is my rescue. He was a rescue as he plucked most of his feather out and in bad health with liver issues and infections as they kept him in a dirty rusted small cage with sunflower seeds in back of a garage as they didn't want the noise inside their house. Likely second owner, or bird flipper as he was professional trained at some point and was very social off the bat. He cost me over 2k in vet bills in the first year and tons of bonding to get him back to 100%. He since molted most his feathers back, fully flighted and has fully recovered and even mated to my female U2 as now they are a pair. That I was surprised as Baby is picky and usually don't get along well with other birds, I actually kept her separated for the first couple of months, she accepted his bonding request first time around from meeting him and then they started to mate shortly and a year later inseparable as if I pick up one, I have to pick them both up within a few minutes, or they fly and call out to each other.
https://youtu.be/Jsxc848Rasc?t=57

Cockatoos in general is like owning a primate, they are not the bird for faint of heart and a large lifetime commitment.

That's great you have such a special bond with your birds. If I had that I wouldn't part with them either. You mentioned about the Greys, my brother had one for many years that talked, and one of the things he'd say when a cat walked under the cage was "damned cat"!.

LOL greys are way more layback and not as demanding, but also quite intelligent and the best talkers.

 

[Siobhan]

All the drawbacks to 'toos being said, I still love Rocky devotedly. Yeah, he's a pain. Yeah, he's demanding. He bites. He screams. He destroys stuff. He makes giant messes. I have to rock and sing him to sleep and even then he sometimes screams for half an hour or longer after I've put him to bed. And yes, we argue just like the woman and the 'too in the video. LOL Even though I don't understand most of what he's saying.

 

[ParrotGenie]

All the drawbacks to 'toos being said, I still love Rocky devotedly. Yeah, he's a pain. Yeah, he's demanding. He bites. He screams. He destroys stuff. He makes giant messes. I have to rock and sing him to sleep and even then he sometimes screams for half an hour or longer after I've put him to bed. And yes, we argue just like the woman and the 'too in the video. LOL Even though I don't understand most of what he's saying.

Baby will sometimes flap her wings and scream when it bedtime and she wants to stay out, Cooper will hang off me upside down when he don't want to go in cage to keep from putting him on his perch. They are not bad as they only do it once in a while, most of the time they go into cage. Frankie will just fly back to cage on his own and go in around 9pm on the dot pretty much and say nighty night, if only my U2's and tiels would do the same?

 

[noodles123]

Noodles has bedtime down (luckily). She is actually obnoxious about going to bed AS SOON as SHE is ready....and heaven help me if I ignore her (as I once had to do in a late-night car trip....)