ChickensMom
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- Apr 13, 2011
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I'm at my wits end with my Sun! I'm so mad right now so please forgive me if I seem, well, mad. What the hell am I to do with this bird? ANYTHING that resembles a stick we get attacked over. I was sweeping the kitchen and my Sun was sitting on my shoulder making her typical double "bark" squawk letting me know she doesn't like my broom and I purposely ignore it because she needs to get over this! I've had her for 4 years and she's 4 years old, its about time!! Most of the time she doesn't bite me, but now I have a nickle-sized triangle-shaped bloody bruise on my bicep. We can't use anything without being scared: paintbrushes, pens, pencils, knives, spatulas, turners, scissors, markers, Straighteners, perches (unless they're in her cages)! These items are ok as long as we are not touching them, but once we touch them she attacks and won't let go of us! She's been this way for years.
I've stuck pens and pencils in her cage as suggested by someone on this forum, but she just bites them, knocks them down to get them away from her, and that's it.
My fiance's daughter hates her because she can't just carry on with her normal routine (she straighten's her hair in the morning) without our Sun flying into her bathroom to attack her. So now I tell my fiance's son not to let her out in the mornings. My fiance, his son, and me love our Sun, but are extremely leary of her. Sometimes we will be watching TV and she will sit on our belly's just relaxing, we will scratch her head and give her love, then after 5 minutes of us not giving her attention she'll lunge at our face or neck. We've always put her on a time out for such behavior, but it's not doing any good. She's done this when she cuddles, sometimes not all the time - she'd be under our shirts cuddling, and once we lift our collar to check on her or to admire her, she'd lunge at us like a rattlesnake and bite our faces.
I don't understand how some people's Conures are good around company and kids. I'm always worrying about letting her out around my company in fear that she'll hurt them, especially our little nieces and nephews. What should we do?! Please help!
I've stuck pens and pencils in her cage as suggested by someone on this forum, but she just bites them, knocks them down to get them away from her, and that's it.
My fiance's daughter hates her because she can't just carry on with her normal routine (she straighten's her hair in the morning) without our Sun flying into her bathroom to attack her. So now I tell my fiance's son not to let her out in the mornings. My fiance, his son, and me love our Sun, but are extremely leary of her. Sometimes we will be watching TV and she will sit on our belly's just relaxing, we will scratch her head and give her love, then after 5 minutes of us not giving her attention she'll lunge at our face or neck. We've always put her on a time out for such behavior, but it's not doing any good. She's done this when she cuddles, sometimes not all the time - she'd be under our shirts cuddling, and once we lift our collar to check on her or to admire her, she'd lunge at us like a rattlesnake and bite our faces.
I don't understand how some people's Conures are good around company and kids. I'm always worrying about letting her out around my company in fear that she'll hurt them, especially our little nieces and nephews. What should we do?! Please help!