hello world!
(sorry- if this is kind of long since I feel like I should provide context, but if you want to skip to the main question I underlined it.)
so I've had my parakeet, Dexter, for roughly two years now and have been trying to tame her/at least get her to tolerate me for two years now but to no avail because 90% of the time she would run into a coconut hut that I got her (I ended up buying it for her since I thought it would offer her comfort- now I'm never going to buy something without researching it first). There's been no problems other than that up until a few months ago when she started to go into these unwarranted chirping/screeching fits which occasionally turned into full fledged screeching/hissing whenever I got close to her- but only for a few seconds until she calmed down.
there's nothing wrong with her. I took her to an exotic vet and they said she was healthy (save for her diet, which I have since changed), she never has issues molting and isn't currently molting, and she's eating regularly as per usual, but lately she's gotten incredibly aggressive.
I was looking into it online when I read something about female birds being especially aggressive when their hormones are triggered by things like coconut huts/enclosed things in the cage- so I took it out.
needless to say she did NOT like that, which is where we're at right now. She's been screeching/screaming even more constantly than before and this has been going on for a few days. She only gets more angry whenever I approach, screaming viciously at me as if threatening my life because I took her beloved coconut hut.
I'm pretty sure she won't forgive me anytime soon, but is there anything I can do to try and calm her down just a bit or is there something I should be doing in general? Or is this just a waiting game now? I feel bad for taking it away even though she appears completely healthy still since I removed it and I'm not sure how to occupy her other than playing music since she barely picks at her toys except for one and ignores fruits/veggies I leave for her like they're the plague (even going as far as screaming angrily whenever she tosses the veggies out of her food bowl whenever I leave them there).
*I'm not sure if this information is important- but I got her since she was being given away for free at a store due to her allegedly killing her cage mate at her last house. She was named Dexter for this (and also because she was believed to be a male), but I learned she was a female after she laid an egg a year ago. There was no other information about her + her background when I bought her but I feel like she was abused or at the very least hurt because whenever I rose my hand to feed her when I first got her she would flinch.
Dexter during a moment of temporary peace. She is probably pretending I'm the toy and is definitely glaring at me when I took this photo.
(sorry- if this is kind of long since I feel like I should provide context, but if you want to skip to the main question I underlined it.)
so I've had my parakeet, Dexter, for roughly two years now and have been trying to tame her/at least get her to tolerate me for two years now but to no avail because 90% of the time she would run into a coconut hut that I got her (I ended up buying it for her since I thought it would offer her comfort- now I'm never going to buy something without researching it first). There's been no problems other than that up until a few months ago when she started to go into these unwarranted chirping/screeching fits which occasionally turned into full fledged screeching/hissing whenever I got close to her- but only for a few seconds until she calmed down.
there's nothing wrong with her. I took her to an exotic vet and they said she was healthy (save for her diet, which I have since changed), she never has issues molting and isn't currently molting, and she's eating regularly as per usual, but lately she's gotten incredibly aggressive.
I was looking into it online when I read something about female birds being especially aggressive when their hormones are triggered by things like coconut huts/enclosed things in the cage- so I took it out.
needless to say she did NOT like that, which is where we're at right now. She's been screeching/screaming even more constantly than before and this has been going on for a few days. She only gets more angry whenever I approach, screaming viciously at me as if threatening my life because I took her beloved coconut hut.
I'm pretty sure she won't forgive me anytime soon, but is there anything I can do to try and calm her down just a bit or is there something I should be doing in general? Or is this just a waiting game now? I feel bad for taking it away even though she appears completely healthy still since I removed it and I'm not sure how to occupy her other than playing music since she barely picks at her toys except for one and ignores fruits/veggies I leave for her like they're the plague (even going as far as screaming angrily whenever she tosses the veggies out of her food bowl whenever I leave them there).
*I'm not sure if this information is important- but I got her since she was being given away for free at a store due to her allegedly killing her cage mate at her last house. She was named Dexter for this (and also because she was believed to be a male), but I learned she was a female after she laid an egg a year ago. There was no other information about her + her background when I bought her but I feel like she was abused or at the very least hurt because whenever I rose my hand to feed her when I first got her she would flinch.
Dexter during a moment of temporary peace. She is probably pretending I'm the toy and is definitely glaring at me when I took this photo.