ellsiebird
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- Mar 19, 2011
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- "Ellsie" Female, 2 years old, Senegal
Heya
I have a 2 year old female Senegal parrot, to me she is fine i can stroke her, play with her, turn her upside down etc, but she does have a nasty streak towards me at the same time every now and then which is normally unexpected.
But her issue seems to be with men, she has made 3 attacks at mens faces, 2 being sucsessful which ended up in a pierced lip and a bleeding forehead!
it really comes from no where, she was happily being played with and stroked by my male firend, and curled up into his arms and went to sleep.... so i thought....and so quickly went for his face...... the lip piercing was when she was out, sat on the man, happy as can be, flew off, came back to his shoulder....and got hold of lip and was NOT letting go!!!
im desperate to social ise her, but i dont know how as i live out of town so rarely have people over, nor do they any patience for her when she acts like this ( Guess not all people like the ups and downs of animals!)
she was left with a friend for a weekend who has many parrots and even told not bring her back, and this person is female
i guess the man hate comes from her past some how as only had her 6 months, and know at one point she was in a pet shop and have noticed her wing and tail feathershave been cut (not to be clipped, jus random chunks taken) so can only assume something from that!
sorry for the essay, but any ideas how to control her attcks would be great.
she very recently had me taken to A&E as she bit that hard into my finger, so i some times get this aggresion aimed at me.
any sudjestions would be great!!
Thanks
I have a 2 year old female Senegal parrot, to me she is fine i can stroke her, play with her, turn her upside down etc, but she does have a nasty streak towards me at the same time every now and then which is normally unexpected.
But her issue seems to be with men, she has made 3 attacks at mens faces, 2 being sucsessful which ended up in a pierced lip and a bleeding forehead!
it really comes from no where, she was happily being played with and stroked by my male firend, and curled up into his arms and went to sleep.... so i thought....and so quickly went for his face...... the lip piercing was when she was out, sat on the man, happy as can be, flew off, came back to his shoulder....and got hold of lip and was NOT letting go!!!
im desperate to social ise her, but i dont know how as i live out of town so rarely have people over, nor do they any patience for her when she acts like this ( Guess not all people like the ups and downs of animals!)
she was left with a friend for a weekend who has many parrots and even told not bring her back, and this person is female
i guess the man hate comes from her past some how as only had her 6 months, and know at one point she was in a pet shop and have noticed her wing and tail feathershave been cut (not to be clipped, jus random chunks taken) so can only assume something from that!
sorry for the essay, but any ideas how to control her attcks would be great.
she very recently had me taken to A&E as she bit that hard into my finger, so i some times get this aggresion aimed at me.
any sudjestions would be great!!
Thanks
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