Hi everyone, I'm Mary. I'm new to this site.
Anyway, my baby, Newton, who we've had for like three or four years is always squawking. He rarely stops, and it is soooo annoying.
He even does it when he's out of his cage! Do you have any ideas on how to get him to stop
and why he's doing this? I thought maybe because there's a lot of loud noises at my house, but I don't know.

Also, I thought this was really cute and he's been doing this since we've had him;
if we give him something a bit hard and crunchy like a cracker, then he goes and he
runs into his cage and dunks it in water, then eats it. Do any of your quakers do that?

Thanks everyone!

What does he do when you go over and talk to him?
Are you rotating the toys every once in a while? I do mine every week.

All of my birds are dunkers. I think most birds are.

He stops when we go up to his cage, and he doesn't squawk when we hold him, but when he's in
his cage and sometimes out of it it's just squawk squawk squawk. He didn't use to do this, either.
It's especially annoying when we're talking or watching TV because we can't hear anything!

And okay. I thought only my baby dunked.

Sounds to me like your baby is looking for attention. How much one on one time does he get with you? Do you handle him every day?

Also, what do you do when he is squawking?

Yep, most birds are dunkers. I've switched all my birds over to water bottles though, so none of mine are able to dunk anymore.

Truman is a dunker too.

He is out of his cage most of the day when we are home (mostly on his cagetop play gym) and we give him attention every day. He still gets into squawking fits, but when he does I put him in his cage (if he's not already in it) and cover it for a few minutes. He gets the idea! Now he has learned what the cover is and growls and quiets down pretty quickly when he sees me getting ready to pick it up.

I remember when I had that trouble with Morgan. This site was not available then and he drove me crazy. Eventually he grew out of it. I hope Newton stops this soon.

I would agree with Carrie Anne, how much out of cage time does your quaker get. We just recently moved and I noticed that my Mr. Kiwi is squawing alot more. I give him some Pine Nuts and he calms down. I am trying to put things away in my house and he wants to see me. I have to say that I spent more time in the beginning when I bought him, then I am able to spend with him now. He knows what his boundaries are, but right now he is a little mixed up. because I am home all of the time. I hope this made sense. I have had my Mr. Kiwi for over 8 years and even tho I did absolutely NO research, I would NOT trade him for anything in the world. He is my world!

Hmm... Newton gets lots of time out of the cage, but the moment he gets back in he starts squawking. I hold him a lot, and he likes me best

The rest of my family yell "Shut up Newton!" when he squawks, and I heard you shouldn't do that, so when he squawks I try and go up to him and
talk gently. But when I walk away he just starts up again. It is really starting to get on everyone's nerves.

Ive heard that yelling at the bird only makes them worse. with my bird, i never get mad or yell at him, even when i want to, and Midori is a really well behaved bird.

Is the cage in the main room in your house? maybe your fid feels left out.
sorry i cant offer any more advice than that....