Jonesy starting to CHOMP...

...down on me!!! his previous parront said Jonesy never bit :54:

Well it seems like he has a hankering for MY flesh.

This only happens when I try and get him off the roof of his house. First he'll run all along the roof,then climb down the sides to the front door.
I have to close the door so he doesn't zoom back in.

Then when I put my arm out,and tell him to step up,he'll just sit there. I can even nudge his butt with my hand or arm,but he refuses to climb aboard. So I have to try and lift him off,both hands around his little body. This is when he CHOMPS!! Draws blood! :11: Hurts like the dickens too!

But once he is on my hand,and away from his digs,he'll climb right up my arm and onto my shoulder and start jabbering away like nothing happened.

His previous owner said The Cockatoo Man's mansion was up,eye level with the little cuss,but his house here is on the floor,and I have to bend down to look at him. I'm wondering if he feels threatened being down low like that? Maybe I should raise his house up?

I'm tellin' ya..giving him back and getting a baby Grey is looking better and better lol

Jim

My tiel can be the same way. Argues like a teenager but when you finally convince them to cooperatethey have fun. Fortunately mine doesn't bite. He just yells. All I can offer is moral ssupport. I wish I had some advice for you.

Raise his cage.
He sounds cage aggressive
Is he stick trained? My CAG was cage aggressive and I finally gave up the fight. I would open his cage and had a manzanita perch on the outside. If he wanted to hang with me he would fly down and walk over to me. At which point I couke bring him with me or do whatever. Some days he just wanted to hang on his perch.
But if I ever HAD to do something I asked him to step up on the stick.

Doublete said:

Raise his cage.
He sounds cage aggressive
Is he stick trained? My CAG was cage aggressive and I finally gave up the fight. I would open his cage and had a manzanita perch on the outside. If he wanted to hang with me he would fly down and walk over to me. At which point I couke bring him with me or do whatever. Some days he just wanted to hang on his perch.
But if I ever HAD to do something I asked him to step up on the stick.

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No Doublete...he is frightened of a stick a lot! in fact,thats how I get him to go in to his house..he just has to see it and he runs.

Amy won't let me get her from her home either,even with a stick. She just tightens her grip with her feet and beak and that's it. But out of her house,she gets right on it. That's the way I'd carry her if her toe nails were getting too sharp to handle her.

Jim

AmyMyBlueFront said:

...down on me!!! his previous parront said Jonesy never bit :54:

Well it seems like he has a hankering for MY flesh.

This only happens when I try and get him off the roof of his house. First he'll run all along the roof,then climb down the sides to the front door.
I have to close the door so he doesn't zoom back in.

Then when I put my arm out,and tell him to step up,he'll just sit there. I can even nudge his butt with my hand or arm,but he refuses to climb aboard. So I have to try and lift him off,both hands around his little body. This is when he CHOMPS!! Draws blood! :11: Hurts like the dickens too!

But once he is on my hand,and away from his digs,he'll climb right up my arm and onto my shoulder and start jabbering away like nothing happened.

His previous owner said The Cockatoo Man's mansion was up,eye level with the little cuss,but his house here is on the floor,and I have to bend down to look at him. I'm wondering if he feels threatened being down low like that? Maybe I should raise his house up?

I'm tellin' ya..giving him back and getting a baby Grey is looking better and better lol

Jim

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Mine ( 8 yr old Blue front) dose that now and then, if she want to bite when on her cage, Then fine, she stays there and my other birds come out. When she sees she's all alone in the bird room she want to step up then.
Parrots ( many species) are very protective of their cage. it's their safe Zone. You don't enter it without asking first, boss or not over the birds.

Blue fronts do things on "Their" terms.....You want a grey? They can be even more forceful with the "on my terms" approach. And needy when at a young age.

Zons are really far more laid back than a Grey. Though my Zon once really took a chunk out of my wife's neck. But She really is a nice bird
just got her claw caught once and took it out on my wife out of fear.

Hawk, Amy my BF is 26 and she is very protective of her cage also. She will try to bite if I put my hand in to try and get her.

Smokey my TAG was the same way


Jim

AmyMyBlueFront said:

Hawk, Amy my BF is 26 and she is very protective of her cage also. She will try to bite if I put my hand in to try and get her.

Smokey my TAG was the same way


Jim

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I don't know Jim, sometimes I would like to get inside the brain of my BFA
to find out why she sometimes bites, which in some causes s rare, but
she dose bite hard when she does.

Lately past month she has been very good, myself getting up earlier to feed them (7am) has them in better moods. I used to get them fed around 8:30am and they were a bit cranky. My Grey rarely bites, my Senegal though is a mean little bugger. Draws blood the evil terrorist.

Try letting him sit there until he asks to step up. Parrots don't like to be made to do things, if my other species are any indication (Rocky ALWAYS wants to step up, and he's my only experience with cockatoos). With the Quakers, tiels and my budgie, I wait for them to indicate they want to step up.

Go back to square one. Refresher course in No bite training, and boundaries....

From time to time, they act up, and you just go back to basics.

YOU KNOW BETTER, BUT... SINCE YOU SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN, WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING, DO THIS ALL OVER AGAIN, AND I'M GOING TO REINFORCE IT GOING FORWARD.

Don't like that bird? Then quit biting and behave.