shinyuankuo
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- May 9, 2019
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- Parrots
- Winston 屁撚, the Eclectus. 屁撚 (pi-nian) came from Pinion (Psalms 64, meaning flight feather, typifying God's soaring power.)
Hi guys,
I am wondering if you have experienced successful trust building as a not-preferred parront? I've been having problems with Winston. Winston ABSOLUTELY LOVES his dad (my husband), and I'm the unwanted mom. I respect his boundaries and is okay with him choosing dad overall, but things got complicated over the past few weeks.
1. Hormone - (facepalm)
Winston chases his dad everyday. We been discouraging, but we can at best prevent birdy love vomit.
2. He's sick (sour crop) without appetite. To manage his weight, we give more than usual amount of fruit and treats to entice him to eat. We also almost stopped all the recall training because he had no interest. He didn't feel well enough to do it. We've seen a vet, and he is recovering. I plan to start cutting his sugar once he gets into the 470g weight range. He's at 460g but normally at 488g.
Now, problems I have with Winston...(let me make a big sigh here.)
Thanks!
I am wondering if you have experienced successful trust building as a not-preferred parront? I've been having problems with Winston. Winston ABSOLUTELY LOVES his dad (my husband), and I'm the unwanted mom. I respect his boundaries and is okay with him choosing dad overall, but things got complicated over the past few weeks.
1. Hormone - (facepalm)
Winston chases his dad everyday. We been discouraging, but we can at best prevent birdy love vomit.
2. He's sick (sour crop) without appetite. To manage his weight, we give more than usual amount of fruit and treats to entice him to eat. We also almost stopped all the recall training because he had no interest. He didn't feel well enough to do it. We've seen a vet, and he is recovering. I plan to start cutting his sugar once he gets into the 470g weight range. He's at 460g but normally at 488g.
Now, problems I have with Winston...(let me make a big sigh here.)
Winston and I kind of get along, but he will choose to bite. I can put my face to him, and he'd be fine receiving a kiss. We have great singing sessions every other day (shower schedule). But he will floor shark me out of the blue.
- Step up (permission based with a treat) became very wacky. He knows that he can refuse a step up, and I know when he says no. He will however choose to step up and bite my hand without getting a reward. The bite became his reward. He always gets a firm "NO" and a time-out after bites, but he will choose to have consequences. I feel he's stepping up to bite me sometimes. This is a big problem because it breaks our trust.
- He displays some hormonal behavior towards me, too, but it's more like a bad boy using a random girl as a target to take out emotions. His hormonal behavior towards his dad is like "ooohhh, let me show you my great precious vomit. I'm sure you will like me (romantic voice over)," Towards me? "HORMONE CHOMP! You'd better be satisfied with this! Because you are getting NOTHING ELSE!"
Thanks!
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