66corvair
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- Feb 5, 2014
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- 2 year old GCC
My fiance and I recently bought a GCC from Petsmart. We have been looking and reading books for almost 2 years. We waited until our lease was up to make sure our new family member would have a good setting to live in. We have books and have read endlessly. We found Rey, our GCC, and just fell in love. She/he is a spaz and has a great attitude. However I have a question on a behavior and how to react. Neither of us has been around birds before and books can only teach you so much. They can't addresss specific questions.
Rey is nippy, was at the pet store but is worse now. Not too bad, but I want to learn how to curb the problem. This is the third day we have had her and she constatly wants to be out of the cage. When she sees either of us coming she goes right to the door and bounces and jumps around to get our attention. When we let her out she steps right up and sits just fine. She initially let us stroker her wings and she loved head scratches. But she would bite a lot. I just don't know what she wants. She constantly wants to be out of the cage and come to us. She doesn't like to step down to tables or playcage and as soon as she steps down she tries to step back onto either one of us. We let her out a decent amount until she gets really bitey but we can't figure out what to do. She loves to sit on our fingers and likes to try to run up to our shoulders every once in a while but inevitably ends up biting us. What is the best way to react to this?
She is also eight months old so could hormones possibly be playing a role? I just am not sure what to do. She wanted to hang out with us within 4 hours of coming home and constatnly wants to hang out with us but ends up biting us. How do we react?
Rey is nippy, was at the pet store but is worse now. Not too bad, but I want to learn how to curb the problem. This is the third day we have had her and she constatly wants to be out of the cage. When she sees either of us coming she goes right to the door and bounces and jumps around to get our attention. When we let her out she steps right up and sits just fine. She initially let us stroker her wings and she loved head scratches. But she would bite a lot. I just don't know what she wants. She constantly wants to be out of the cage and come to us. She doesn't like to step down to tables or playcage and as soon as she steps down she tries to step back onto either one of us. We let her out a decent amount until she gets really bitey but we can't figure out what to do. She loves to sit on our fingers and likes to try to run up to our shoulders every once in a while but inevitably ends up biting us. What is the best way to react to this?
She is also eight months old so could hormones possibly be playing a role? I just am not sure what to do. She wanted to hang out with us within 4 hours of coming home and constatnly wants to hang out with us but ends up biting us. How do we react?