Hermit57
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- Aug 16, 2013
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- Parrots
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Rocko - Blue Fronted Amazon
Sasha - Goffin Cockatoo
Ziggy - Cockatiel
My BFA Rocko has been in the throes of his hormones since October and I am the object of his aggression. To keep a daily positive interaction, I have clicker trained him (he beaks a stick, I click, he gets a treat) and he's as sweet as can be during the training sessions. Once they're done, I'm fair game. He watches me if I sit quietly, but as soon as I walk around he flies at me and attacks like he's from the Hitchcock movie.
I don't want to do anything that could cause long term damage to our relationship. I'd like to clip his wings, but I'm concerned that what it would take for me to towel him might be worse in the long run than keeping him flighted for a few hours a day until his hormonal stage passes. I have toweled him in the past for clipping, but I know that doing it now would be difficult for both of us. Or am I encouraging his aggression by letting him dive bomb me at will? Right now I wear a hoodie while he's out and flap some newspaper at him when he attacks. I'm also thinking about blocking the doorway from his cage room to the living area, but not sure if isolating him would cause problems.
Any ideas? Am I over thinking all of this?
I don't want to do anything that could cause long term damage to our relationship. I'd like to clip his wings, but I'm concerned that what it would take for me to towel him might be worse in the long run than keeping him flighted for a few hours a day until his hormonal stage passes. I have toweled him in the past for clipping, but I know that doing it now would be difficult for both of us. Or am I encouraging his aggression by letting him dive bomb me at will? Right now I wear a hoodie while he's out and flap some newspaper at him when he attacks. I'm also thinking about blocking the doorway from his cage room to the living area, but not sure if isolating him would cause problems.
Any ideas? Am I over thinking all of this?