Is Cloud neurotic or . . . .

[Diane, Clouds assignment]

. . . . is he trying to tell me I screwed up?

Cloud has three dish holders in his cage. The first one on the left always has his water. The one on the left, toward the back, always has his seed mix. The one on the right is for his cooked Bean Cuisine. Today I inadvertently switched the seed and the Bean Cuisine locations. He looked at one bowl, then the other and then at me. Finally, he went to his seed bowl and took some of the mix in his mouth and went to the perch on the other side where his seed bowl usually is, and ate the seed over the Bean Cuisine bowl. He then returned to the seed bowl, got some more in his beak and went back to the Bean side and ate it. He did this several times, never eating the seed over the seed bowl.

When I switched the bowls back to where they usually are, he went to the seed bowl and happily ate the seed from it's usual location. :confused::umm: I'd say he is either fixed in his ways or I have a bird with OCD.

[Dot]

Hey, at least he ate. Blusher (RFM) lives to play and eats enough to live. The Amazons take food from foraging toys and carefully make their way back to a food dish to eat it. Blusher takes a toy to the food dish so that if she drops it, she'll still have it. :yernutz:

[FoxersArtist]

Him and Benny Boy will start a club together: OCD Cockatoos Unite. That's TOO funny.
-Anna

[bonnie]

LOL I should see what happens if I switch around Chicken's bowls! Silly bird!

[00andy]

Him and Benny Boy will start a club together: OCD Cockatoos Unite. That's TOO funny.
-Anna

Yup..."OCD Cockatoos Unite! ... right after I rearrange these papers and put my toys back in the tub and arrange my toys in the tub by alphabetical colored order oh but I have to make sure all my feathers are preened and make sure theres no dead skin on my talons and sharpen my nails and..."

Hmmmm...could take a while for that group to get started...

[TikiTalks]

Yup..."OCD Cockatoos Unite! ... right after I rearrange these papers and put my toys back in the tub and arrange my toys in the tub by alphabetical colored order oh but I have to make sure all my feathers are preened and make sure theres no dead skin on my talons and sharpen my nails and..."

Hmmmm...could take a while for that group to get started...




roflmbo:rofl:

[Diane, Clouds assignment]

:rofl::rofl::rofl: I can't tell you guys how relieved I am to hear that Cloud isn't the only bird on this board that does this. I spent a long time searching the internet last night for a bird psychiatrist to help Cloud deal with this behavior. I got as far west as Utah without finding one.

This morning when I checked my computer, I found that Cloud had been doing some searches of his own. He was on a site called Happy Humans. He posted yesterdays incident and was referred to a topic on Rehomed Humans. Basically it suggested, with older humans, perseverance is required due to the fact that their long and short term memories are not what they used to be in their younger years. He was told that the way he handled it was correct. And once his human switched the bowl back, showing his pleasure by happily eating the seed from the correct location, reinforced the the desired human behavior. He was cautioned that his human may regress for no other reason except that she is old and her brain circuitry may be as scattered as the contents of a dropped seed bowl.

Oh . . .Dot, Blusher had several posts on you! :snicker::snicker::snicker:

[Anne-Samantha's Mom]

do tiels qualify for this too...sam does almost the same thing..weird...lol

[too&me]

Poor Harry I rearrange his all the time, in an effort to make feed time more interesting. Did you see any of his posts?

[Diane, Clouds assignment]

If he goes by the user name 'HarryToo', he has several posts on the topic, CHALLENGES OF LIVING WITH A CLUELESS HUMAN. Here's part of a response . . . "although most humans will eventually come around and produce this desired response, there are those that the task is just too complicated to comprehend. If carrying food to the correct feeder to consume it or refusing to eat altogether fails, you may have to accept that the task is beyond your humans comprehension and be satisfied that this unorganized behavior of hers gives her a sense of accomplishment in seeing that she has provided you with an interesting and ever changing order of delivering your food matter.
You may also want to take a blood sample for further evaluation to see if there are any other causes for this strange behavior.
Keep us posted on your progress."

[Dot]

:snicker::snicker::snicker:

she old and her brain circuitry may be as scattered as the contents of a dropped seed bowl.

I love the way you write. When are you going to write a book? You should be saving these posts. I want the first copy.

[Diane, Clouds assignment]

Thanks, Dot. I do have a jounal with pics in progress.
The title is 'CLOUD-LIVING WITH AN ALIEN'