stopping screaming before it starts?

[luv4jjt]

I am getting a baby african grey in about a month and a half. I have a sunny. My sunny (as i know sunny's are) is loud a lot. My question is.....how do i prevent my grey from learning the same screaming behavier from my sunny? I am trying to teach the sunny not to be so loude by giving her distactions when she is screaming. Usually a bath. But does anyone know how to deal with this issue and prevented it before it happens?

[chapala]

Your Grey, if he/she is anything like mine, will learn to imitate everything in the environment, including the other birds. My Grey besides imitating the Macaw (though not quite at full Macaw volume!) and Parrotlet and dogs, also has quite a repertoire of wild bird calls. When I hear a Black-crowned Night Heron on the terrace, or a Woodpecker, or a Dove, or a Social Flycatcher, and many others, I know it's my Kali!

[shadowsmom]

I'm not sure if anything will help I have a Jenday and my grey imitates her perfectly. Including the ear piercing screams Grey's only have to hear some things once or twice to be able to mimic it.
Just think... in a few months you'll have stereo sunnys!!

[luv4jjt]

lol.. seround sound. thats funny. I was just hopeing is all. lol. I can deal with it. How know's maybe i'll get lucky and the grey wont be interested in the sunny's screams. But i won't hold my breath on that one.

[magdalena]

Don't hold your breath lol. I had my new grey for a week maybe while my black lory was still here and she picked up his shrill call so perfectly (and amplified) that I was on the phone with someone and they asked me if I had a lory (his family had bred them in the past). This was after the lory had gone to his new home and it was just the grey imitating him. Over and over and over. :D I did just ignore the noise and always reward the other calls she makes (except the smoke alarm ones heh) and she hasn't made it in weeks though so there IS always hope.