Katishalynch4
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- Jun 22, 2016
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- Parrots
- Yellow nape Amazon and a double yellow headed Amazon
Hello,
I have 2 Amazon's, one is a 30-40 yr old dbl yellow headed Amazon, and then i have a 4 yr old yellow nape Amazon. My yellow heads name is ziggy and she is nice and talks and gives me kisses and sometimes even flies to me, I can walk around with her and even take her outside she's pretty awesome I knew her when her previous owners had her so she knows me. A few yrs ago when my friend had her she was caged with another smaller male parrot (idk what kind) when I got the birds he wasn't with her anymore they told me he had died and now they had Marla (another female, the yellow nape) and she wouldn't let you hold her, and she bites, doesn't talk and her and ziggy don't get along. They said ziggy stays on the cage and Marla stays inside and won't come out. Well, when i got them home after a cpl days I left the cage open and she comes out but she is mean to sight and gets mad if ziggy gets attention and runs at her with her mouth open if ziggy is getting held or talked to. I talk to Marla and she will get as close to me as she can and does a little purr noise, and she will inch closer and squat down and stare at my shoulder like she wants to be held she just won't step up and she will bite. I think she has actually made a lot of progress since we have had her but we don't know her history. We only know her age from her bracelet (ziggy doesn't have a bracelet) well yesterday I was in our room and my bf yelled for me to come get the bird (Marla) she had flew off the cage and was on the floor in the kitchen. She bites hard so I didn't want to try and pick her up so I just sat next to her on the floor, she walked right up to me and started making her purr noise and then started nibbling at my leg, I let her cause I figured she couldn't get a hold of my skin and it wasn't aggressive. (I was wrong, she got a hold of my skin above my heel.. OUCH!) I got up and started walking down the hall back to the room talking to her and she actually walked all the way to the room following me, I sat on the bed and she came up to me then too making her noise. I was scared for my toes. But my bf told me to get a sweatshirt and try to hold her, and she actually got on my arm I walked around a little bit with her but she was perched really awkward, ( not like ziggy who's a pro ) so I sat down with her and she kept biting the sweatshirt, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to react till today when I read about it. I thought she would know I wasn't happy when I said no in a form Voice and I told her no bite. Now I know I went about that all wrong, I read they are equivalent to a toddler so it seemed like the right thing to do. Boy was I wrong, it seemed to be working for a min... then BAM she just lunged down and bit and got my arm with the shirt, she got me good too broke skin and where she but down got swollen.
Sorry for the long msg, but if anyone had some super duper advice on how I get her to stop biting and picking on ziggy I would appreciate it. I know I'm not supposed to react now, but man I dont wanna get bit. What should I do? Someone help pls
I have 2 Amazon's, one is a 30-40 yr old dbl yellow headed Amazon, and then i have a 4 yr old yellow nape Amazon. My yellow heads name is ziggy and she is nice and talks and gives me kisses and sometimes even flies to me, I can walk around with her and even take her outside she's pretty awesome I knew her when her previous owners had her so she knows me. A few yrs ago when my friend had her she was caged with another smaller male parrot (idk what kind) when I got the birds he wasn't with her anymore they told me he had died and now they had Marla (another female, the yellow nape) and she wouldn't let you hold her, and she bites, doesn't talk and her and ziggy don't get along. They said ziggy stays on the cage and Marla stays inside and won't come out. Well, when i got them home after a cpl days I left the cage open and she comes out but she is mean to sight and gets mad if ziggy gets attention and runs at her with her mouth open if ziggy is getting held or talked to. I talk to Marla and she will get as close to me as she can and does a little purr noise, and she will inch closer and squat down and stare at my shoulder like she wants to be held she just won't step up and she will bite. I think she has actually made a lot of progress since we have had her but we don't know her history. We only know her age from her bracelet (ziggy doesn't have a bracelet) well yesterday I was in our room and my bf yelled for me to come get the bird (Marla) she had flew off the cage and was on the floor in the kitchen. She bites hard so I didn't want to try and pick her up so I just sat next to her on the floor, she walked right up to me and started making her purr noise and then started nibbling at my leg, I let her cause I figured she couldn't get a hold of my skin and it wasn't aggressive. (I was wrong, she got a hold of my skin above my heel.. OUCH!) I got up and started walking down the hall back to the room talking to her and she actually walked all the way to the room following me, I sat on the bed and she came up to me then too making her noise. I was scared for my toes. But my bf told me to get a sweatshirt and try to hold her, and she actually got on my arm I walked around a little bit with her but she was perched really awkward, ( not like ziggy who's a pro ) so I sat down with her and she kept biting the sweatshirt, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to react till today when I read about it. I thought she would know I wasn't happy when I said no in a form Voice and I told her no bite. Now I know I went about that all wrong, I read they are equivalent to a toddler so it seemed like the right thing to do. Boy was I wrong, it seemed to be working for a min... then BAM she just lunged down and bit and got my arm with the shirt, she got me good too broke skin and where she but down got swollen.
Sorry for the long msg, but if anyone had some super duper advice on how I get her to stop biting and picking on ziggy I would appreciate it. I know I'm not supposed to react now, but man I dont wanna get bit. What should I do? Someone help pls
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