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davefv92c

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lily my lilac crown is now 2 she is a super sweet gal and really has bonded to me, heck i can call her like i do the dog and she fly's right to me,if she see's me heading out of the room here she is on my shoulder, when im in the kitchen without her she goes krazy and man can these guys mooch whenever food is involved which is all cool. thing is with her she is always still biting at my hand when i approach her, but she never has once bit down hard, i do understand the cage angle which she is protective over but has let me reach in a time or 2 and get her off her main perch. is this lunging thing something i will be able to work out of her with time, or is this just something that is built in. i do approach her with a lot of soft chat and sounds we make back and forth and her favorite sayings but she still will just grab a hold of a finger and push away

normal,or not?
 

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Bingo lunges at bars when my wife walks by but he hates my wife.
Bingo is my boy and can get away with most anything without getting bitten but..

There are 3 thing that make him lung at me through the bars on his cage.

1) wearing somthing he does not like (hat)
2) having wet hair after a shower.
3) if I suprize / startle him.
 

AmyMyBlueFront

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And a Normal Grey Cockatiel named BB who came home with me on 5/20/2016.
Yep...Amy still lunges at me from time to time also..usually when she is p.o. about something..like late with brekky/dinner :rolleyes:
I tell her to knock it off and cool your jets and walk away.
Usually in ten minutes or so she is back to her sweet self.





jim
 

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Ditto on the lunging. If Salty does not want to be picked up off his bing he will lunge, and bite, hard, if I let him. But I know his tricks and moods so he rarely gets a good one in. You just have let them be for awhile until the mood changes Biting while on my hand or shoulder is different, he gets a time out on a chair back for a few minutes, but that's really rare. If he is actively playing with a toy that is NOT the time to pick him up.
 

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I'll give some rambling advice here!

The Rb was an angel until he becam a rooster at about age 4. And then, he became a raging, demanding little stinker. He's a fun mimic and an entertaining character, but loves to bite.
I have reduced biting to almost zero over the decades... not because I've changed the bird, but I have changed me. And a lot of that has involved giving up on a lot of my desires/expectations. After years of battle, I surrendered. I don't do stuff that gets me bitten. I don't scratch his head much, ever... tail is okay. I NEVER do stuff that makes him mad... I don't touch others when he's out; I rarely try to get him to step up onto my hand first. Hand-held perch first, then hand. In some ways, I swallow my disappointment at having such a little monster for a pet, but he is what he is. I ALWAYS wear my hair down when he's on my shoulder, so all he can bite is hair. Really, I don't involve hands much... he doesn't like them. He seems to think the real ME is my head, perched on a weird moveable tree with questionable appendages.
Since he's fully flighted, the ONLY way I get him into the cage is to toss a chile pepper in and he flaps in after it. So food reward is a necessity for me. Time-out doesn't exist in the Rb's kingdom.
But please... listen to and try all the good advice you'll get here. Don't surrender until you know you've done your best. Then just accept and love whatever/whoever your bird turns out to be.
My darling is kind of a worse-case scenario, but we have it all worked out between the two of us.
He's a beautiful, wonderful half-wild, amazing parrot, alive and living in my home. Sometimes that just has to be miracle enough.
Very, very best of luck to you.
Good for you for reaching out!
 

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And a Normal Grey Cockatiel named BB who came home with me on 5/20/2016.
We DO put up with a lot of grief that most "sane" people wouldn't tolerate :eek:
But HEY!!! That's what makes US so unique too! ;)




Jim
 

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My BFA gets "beaky" if...
1) he is sleepy/tired
2) he is overstimulated with a new toy or treat
3) I approach his cage to clean it (or act like I could possibly do such a horrible thing)
4) my wife sits too close to me when I am wrestling with him on the bed or sofa

Despite attempts to get him to stop biting this is just his reality. We have a wooden dowel we use for when he is nippy and get him back in his cage for him to cool down. I always encourage a 'recovery' after his calm down period, so he knows that we didn't shove him in his cage and forget about him. Even if its bedtime and I put him in his cage for the night, I always come back by and tell him good night and he gives me kissy noises and this seems to help with him being more compliant to go into his cage over time. He knows he isn't forgotten about, he just needs a minute to calm down.

Amazons and their attitudes go hand in hand... :rolleyes:
 

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