Bad at titles but need advice

gracebowen

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Jade a few days ago decided he likes to get sctitches. He runs his beak and tongue on my arm or hand. Sometimes he pinches. I say no bite or sometimes ow then no bite.

I dont want him to learn to bite to get attention. If I tough him wrong he puts his beak on my finger but usually doesnt apply much pressure. I say no bite. Sometimes he doesnt let go so I say let go. When he does i say good boy.

Should I do something different or keep doing what im doing?

Also he wont step up.

He still seems a little afraid of my hands even though he is asking for scritches.
 

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GaleriaGila

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About hands... 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.

But that's my solution. Other people have been much more successful at training than I have!
 

itzjbean

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Bite pressure training should be done with all pet parrots. Here's a link to a thread on here explaining it. It's used to help birds learn what pressure is, and isn't okay to bite with. This sounds like what you're doing. A lot of people will physically remove themselves from the room or put their birds back into their cages when they bite too hard, in order to teach them that it is not accepted. No bird wants to be ignored, so they learn to do it less and less.
 

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