suggestions to stop Chuckles Houdini undoing his bolts?

[Durbsa]

Chuckles keeps undoing the nuts and bolts holding his water bowl door onto the cage - how do I stop him? One day I'll come home from work and he'll be sitting on the floor with a completely dismantled cage spread out around him if I don't sort this out, I reckon!!

[lisarn3]

Hahaha, Good luck with that.  These guys are very mechanically inclined.

[kgamblin]

What about making some sort of toy with nuts and bolts that you could hang inside the cage? Maybe that would distrack Chuckles from the ones actually on the cage.

[sweeetnlowww]

duck tape 

[Durbsa]

duck tape 

Round his beak, or round the nut and bolt ? LOL!

[kgamblin]

I suspect round the beak would be more effective.

[jules]

oh dear  i don't know what to say on this one except chuckles is very clever indeed. mmm,may a toy then as suggested?

let us know if you come up with something pierre 

[alicat]

iv had that problem with peanut. hed undo the nut and bolt then the little door fell off outwards and he was free!
 easily solveable if your happy to change food bowls via the big front doorinstead of using the little doors, i got three stainless steel skewers ud use for a barbeque put one across each door from top to bottom, threading each end of the skewer thru a cage bar (gotta bend em a little bit) so even if they undo the door bolts the doors wont move or fall off. its easiest if you thead them thru the brs while holding the skewers at an angle . hes given up undoing them now he cannot get out them.

[kins23]

I think Chuckles may yearn to be an engineer! I know... I am surrounded by them!  Nancy

[Billcry]

Good luck.  I have a Cockatoo who once flew up to a ceiling fan and undid the bolts holding the light fixture (six in all and not very accessible, if you've ever tried to install one).  The light, with hand painted $100 globe, crashed to the ground making a noise like a 745 had hit the house.  When we rushed into the room, expecting to find bird parts scattered hither an yon, we found a very proud Cockatoo strutting across the fan blades, wings out stretched doing the Cockatoo Victory Dance. We now keep the fan on at a very low speed to discourage her adventures, but she still occassionally will fly up to the rafters and eye the mechanism, a gleam in her beady eyes as if trying to figure out if she could ride the wonderful merry go round and turn it into a flying saucer.

[lisarn3]

OMG, Bill, I can totally envision that scenario...<snort>

[kgamblin]

Ya just gotta love those little victory dances.  I would like to have been a fly on the wall when the whole thing hit the floor.  My daughter and I watched RIO again last night and I continue to laugh at all the typical attempts to gain freedom the birds in that movie use.  Imagine if they were all set loose in a factory full of wonderful machines with lots of nuts and bolts. .  What fun!

[Billcry]

I think my Goffin, set loose in a nut and bolt factory, would think he had gone to Cockatoo Heaven.  He has a beak that he uses to snip bailing wire that I use to thwart him (temporarily) from opening cage doors and throwing all of the food dishes, water dishes, hanging toys and perches out the door.  He has develped the skill of unscrewing food jars with their four-inch diameter lids and I watched him and another Cockatoo (a Parasol) work together for hours figuring out how to pop off the lid to a ginger jar that contained my cleaning rags.  How they succeeded, I didn't have the patience to find out, but all of my cleaning cloths were shredded on the floor the next day and the three pound ginger jar was on its side, wide open, with the once secure lid shattered on the floor.   I wish I could have seen their victory dance after that one! High fours all around, I guess.

[lisarn3]

They can be ingenious little buggers when they set their minds to something, can't they?!?!?!