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awesome, thanks for the reply and reassuring me that he will be ok :-)

Im going on vacation for a week in september and need to know whats best to do with Simba...I am a single guy who lives alone so he is home alone 10 hours of the day in his cage which i feel bad about as it is. He can be a little feisty at times but has never truly bit me(ive had him for about 5 months now). I have a friend who said she will come feed him every day but I dont want her taking him out cause i know she will never get him back in without him biting her. As im sure most your greys are, Simba can be difficult to get in his cage at night. Ive tried having a couple other friends handle him and he wasnt taking to it too well which is odd cause i got him from a busy petstore where he was out on a perch in the open all day with hundreds of people walking by him. Is it really cruel to have him caged for a whole week? I feel incredibly bad almost to the point that im thinking of not taking my vacation.

Ya, simba has his moment. Im working on the "be back in a minute" when im leaving the room for a couple minutes. Hasnt helped much yet but when im in the room and he starts shrieking nonstop i give him an empty toilet paper roll or a piece of cardboard to shred and it cures him of making any loud noises. Ive also been trying to ignore him when he shrieks or i put him in his cage and cover it but it doesnt seem to help at all as of yet. Im hoping over time I can train him.

Thanks for the help and info!! My friends 5 year old grey Rosco never freaks out when you leave thats why i questioned it. Simba is only a year and a half old so hopefully he will learn sooner than later that Im not gone for good whenever i leave the room. On a side note, in the past few days he has finally started to talk!!! I noticed in the past few weeks he was def sounding out things ive said but nothing was coming out too clear, and this morning i heard him say "Hi bud" and "step up".

Whats the best way of training a grey to not freak out when I leave the room? I have a couple books on training greys and neither mentions this. Pretty much, Simba(my 1.5 year old grey) squaks and screeches increndibly loud the second i leave the room and he doesnt stop until he sees me again. Ive left the room for well over an hour and he never once quieted down. Also, are there any other tricks to stopping them from making unwanted noises besides covering the cage for a few minutes or turning your back to them? Neither one of these ideas is working on Simba. Im mainly concerned since i live in an apartment and im sure my neigbor isnt too happy.

Just wondering how bad cold temperature can be for them? I lost heat in my apartment today and they cant fix it until tomorrow. Being in CT, its 60 in my place now and i bet it will get colder tonight, im very nervous about Rosco being affected negatively by this.