We recently adopted a 2 year old male lesser from a young women and I am looking for any tips on how to get him to "re" bond with human males.
Here's the story.
He's two years old and was owned by a young (early 20's) lady. From what we have gathered he has never been socialized much with Human Males, been outside, around children or other animals and according to my wife, has never seen a stick. From what the women told us he's pretty much been in her apartment and IMO a little sheltered, not abused, just not use to more than just her.
My Wife an Daughter have no problems getting him out of the cage and socializing with him, but if I try to, I will be bit.
I'm not planning on throwing in the towel but any tips to speed up (because it hurts) the not getting bit phase would be great.
For now I'm going to do the following:
1. try to do as many things in front of his cage as possible so he gets use to me being around.
2. do all the feeding, water changing and cage cleaning.
3. offer treats.
4. pet him as much as he will allow.
BTW, this is not our first parrot, we had a B&G Macaw we raised from 4 weeks old that was stolen from us a while back. So this is not my first time at the Rodeo when it come to testing and behavior issues.
Thanks,
Gene
Here's the story.
He's two years old and was owned by a young (early 20's) lady. From what we have gathered he has never been socialized much with Human Males, been outside, around children or other animals and according to my wife, has never seen a stick. From what the women told us he's pretty much been in her apartment and IMO a little sheltered, not abused, just not use to more than just her.
My Wife an Daughter have no problems getting him out of the cage and socializing with him, but if I try to, I will be bit.
I'm not planning on throwing in the towel but any tips to speed up (because it hurts) the not getting bit phase would be great.
For now I'm going to do the following:
1. try to do as many things in front of his cage as possible so he gets use to me being around.
2. do all the feeding, water changing and cage cleaning.
3. offer treats.
4. pet him as much as he will allow.
BTW, this is not our first parrot, we had a B&G Macaw we raised from 4 weeks old that was stolen from us a while back. So this is not my first time at the Rodeo when it come to testing and behavior issues.
Thanks,
Gene