Wera
Regular Member
Some time ago we adopted second parrot, she is an Indian Ringneck and next January she will be 3 years old, she is very friendly and really easygoing, unfortunately Bluey is terrified of mop,I usually keep bucket and mop in the bathroom but then she doesn’t even want to come there for shower so I move it to our bedroom every time before I let her out of the cage, I can’t mop the floor if she is out of the cage because she will hear it or see it and then goes straight for attack and tries to bite my face,if I mop floor when she is in the cage she is really stressed and paces up and down,when I mop next to the cage she gets really angry, she is growling and lunging, because it annoys her so much usually I put her in spare bedroom, close the door and then quickly mop, but poor sweety keeps flock calling all the time,I was wondering is it possible to desensitise her to mop and mopping floors? I was trying to offer her piece of much favoured walnut each time I mop and then bigger piece when I mop next to the cage, but she outsmarted me, she puts walnut into her food bowl and carries on with growling and lungingher behaviour around mop and mopping is not an issue for us, we love her anyway, I just wonder is there anything we could try to help her overcome this fear or it’s better to just keep her closed in spare bedroom when mop is around, I guess it’s more of my fuss that I want her to be confident and not scared of household objects