Azzie Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I've been busy trying to get Cleo to do her business on command. For the last week each time I've seen her start to do the bottom wiggle and tail shaking, I've been calling out "Cleo poop!" over and over, and praising her lots when she did (which of course she was going to do anyway!). Twice now yesterday she pooped on command, but I had my doubts about whether it was coincidence or the real deal. Just this evening however, when I took her out of the cage, I told her to go poop, and within seconds she started the wiggling and shaking, and produced the tiniest amount of urine. From the way it went, I'd say she didn't really need to go, but went anyway because she was told. Of course I performed a huge song and dance with praise. I shall keep testing my theory about whether she is toilet trained! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhorje Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 That is not a fluke shot. My Grey too poops on command. It is quite easy to teach a CAG to poop on command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzie Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 So what I'm doing with her, that's the right way to go about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joolesgreyuk Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Sounds good to me Azzie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmcq Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Your doing the right things and a GreYt job Azzie!! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimaysmommy Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 For those of you who have been able to train your greys to poop on command, do they also poop at will when they need to? I have considered trying to train Chimay, but I don't want him to not go when I'm at work and possibly hurt himself internally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tycos_mom Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 They will go when the have to if your not around to tell them to go poop they will tell themselves to go I know this because Tyco will do this when she has to poop she thinks she has to broadcast it so just before she goes She says go poop and then lets it fly its actually quite nice that she does this because that way if she happens to be on me I can move her before getting pooped on :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimaysmommy Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Sweet!!! We're pretty good at reading Chimay's body language and keeping track of the frequency, so the carpet gets saved....er...about 6 out of every 10 times. The majority's in our favor but I think we'll definately get him started on some potty training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joolesgreyuk Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 chimaysmommy, that's about the same rate as we get here - about 6 out of 10. Anyone who gets a better rate than this is doing extremely well! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmcq Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Well, your all doing better than me. I am lucky to catch 1 of 10. If I catch him and place him where he needs to go and tell him "Go Poop" he'll do it, but......... I walk around with him on my shoulder so much and am busy doing things that I don't realize he just backed up, parked and squatted until I feel that damn warm moisture on my back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimaysmommy Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Ha ha ha!!!! Chimay does have a tendency to poop on his daddy more than on me... One morning, my boyfriend was laying on his side with Chimay on his arm. Chimay let loose his "morning deuce part 2" all over his side and arm. My boyf looked at me and said "Ew ew eeeewwww!!! It's hot!! Get the towels!!!" :sick: Ha ha! I thought he was going to puke but it still made me laugh.<br><br>Post edited by: chimaysmommy, at: 2009/06/09 21:12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crigg83 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 My problem with my grey Charlie is that she will not go to the bathroom in her cage. That has created a situation in which we need to pay someone to come in and let her out to go poop on her potty basket. We even bought a much bigger cage so that we could put a potty basket in one corner of it. She still will not go in her cage. I am thankful that she is potty trained (most of the time) but paying a sitter to get her out every day gets quite expensive (I pay someone $10 to come in for about an hour each work day). Does anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crigg83 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 What do you do about the times that you are not there to get her out to poop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JillyBeanz Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Hi Crigg83. This was my biggest worry about when we went on holiday. Harvey would not go in his cage either and I was really worried as my parents wouldn't be able to let him out as much I we do. I was reassured by all on her that "when they need to go, they need to go" and of course, they were right! My parents were able to get Harvey out of his cage a couple of times a day, but due to their lifestyle etc they couldn't have him out all of the time. He went in his cage - there was nothing to worry about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crigg83 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 So is there a consensus that it will not do any damage for the bird to hold its poop for too long? Before we started having someone come in, Charlie held hers as long as 12 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janfromboone Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 What amazes me is that Tobie waits until he's out of the cage to do a morning poop and it's huge. But when he's on my shoulder on a hike or on the back of the couch he has a thousand tiny poops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitterysparkle Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 We've been training Sephora to go poop in her basket when she is out and she has done pretty well....she flies off of us and onto the basket to poop. Like with cleo, (we've only had her a week) so i dunno if it is coincidence but we'll see. she did it 6 times yesterday. I also praise her for going in her cage because I have the fear of her developing the issue charlie has... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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