MomtoPercy
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Percy hasn't bitten me with the intention of hurting me/scaring me away/whatever in quite a long time and so, it was quite dissapointing when he started nipping me quite hard every so often, recently
I've now discovered he only does it when someone else comes too close (my mom/son or Gyzmo, the pug). He gets really aggressive and has drawn blood on occassion. Clearly, it is displacement biting
We really make sure he gets to interact with everyone in the family as we cannot afford for him to be a one person bird. With my work schedule, I must leave him in my family's care sometimes and I can't have him caged all the time I'm away (usually two nights, 3 days at a time) because the family is afraid of biting. So, we encourage (and have had good results) him to interact and visit with everyone.
Even so, he seems to favour me now and as a result, *I* get nipped if 'intruders' come along This is causing some unhappiness between us because when he bites that hard, I put him on his gym and walk away. I can clearly see that he doesn't understand why mommy is cross and it breaks my heart But I do want to be consistent and let him know that hard bites will result in time out every time.
Percy is a shoulder bird (because normally he never bites faces) but he's threatened once or twice now and I fear a bite to my face will cause serious damage. I really don't think his 'shoulder sitting' is the problem (if I did, I would immediately discontinue it) - I have to address the displacement biting issue because it happens no matter where he happens to be sitting : shoulder, hand, knee... Any advice?
I've now discovered he only does it when someone else comes too close (my mom/son or Gyzmo, the pug). He gets really aggressive and has drawn blood on occassion. Clearly, it is displacement biting
We really make sure he gets to interact with everyone in the family as we cannot afford for him to be a one person bird. With my work schedule, I must leave him in my family's care sometimes and I can't have him caged all the time I'm away (usually two nights, 3 days at a time) because the family is afraid of biting. So, we encourage (and have had good results) him to interact and visit with everyone.
Even so, he seems to favour me now and as a result, *I* get nipped if 'intruders' come along This is causing some unhappiness between us because when he bites that hard, I put him on his gym and walk away. I can clearly see that he doesn't understand why mommy is cross and it breaks my heart But I do want to be consistent and let him know that hard bites will result in time out every time.
Percy is a shoulder bird (because normally he never bites faces) but he's threatened once or twice now and I fear a bite to my face will cause serious damage. I really don't think his 'shoulder sitting' is the problem (if I did, I would immediately discontinue it) - I have to address the displacement biting issue because it happens no matter where he happens to be sitting : shoulder, hand, knee... Any advice?