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Hi Everyone,
I am hoping you can help me.
We have a white pied faced cockatiel. We have had Lenny for just over a year.
We have had issues with him becoming obsessed and aggressive when he has a mirror. He seemed to go through the adolescence stage with a few behaviours but after the breeding season he became content without the mirror.
We thought we had passed the behavioural issues HOWEVER......around August until present he has become obsessed with his shadow, reflection in any surface. He's obsessed with the fridge. Unfortunately we have shiny gloss cupboards, yes he's obsessed with these. Even his tray on the bottom of his cage when we take the paper off, he can see a slight reflection.
He has a toy in his cage that he is also obsessed with. And he pecks at it whilst what we think is masturbating
At the moment we are not able to interact with him outside the cage as he will just fly off and get his fix in the fridge, cupboards bar stools, photoframes.
If this just the mating season or a phase. Is there something we can do apart from sell and cover all our furniture/fittings and sit in the dark 🙈🙈
We have even had to cover his metal food bowls, he is extremely obsessed. We obviously don't want to just get another cockatiel as I think he would stalk her to death. 😂
On a serious note though I am worried that he's not happy or that we are doing something wrong.
Thanks everyone. 🤞🤞
I am hoping you can help me.
We have a white pied faced cockatiel. We have had Lenny for just over a year.
We have had issues with him becoming obsessed and aggressive when he has a mirror. He seemed to go through the adolescence stage with a few behaviours but after the breeding season he became content without the mirror.
We thought we had passed the behavioural issues HOWEVER......around August until present he has become obsessed with his shadow, reflection in any surface. He's obsessed with the fridge. Unfortunately we have shiny gloss cupboards, yes he's obsessed with these. Even his tray on the bottom of his cage when we take the paper off, he can see a slight reflection.
He has a toy in his cage that he is also obsessed with. And he pecks at it whilst what we think is masturbating
At the moment we are not able to interact with him outside the cage as he will just fly off and get his fix in the fridge, cupboards bar stools, photoframes.
If this just the mating season or a phase. Is there something we can do apart from sell and cover all our furniture/fittings and sit in the dark 🙈🙈
We have even had to cover his metal food bowls, he is extremely obsessed. We obviously don't want to just get another cockatiel as I think he would stalk her to death. 😂
On a serious note though I am worried that he's not happy or that we are doing something wrong.
Thanks everyone. 🤞🤞