MikeD91
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I have been a Parrot owner for about a month. After trolling through this Parrot forum I’m thinking that I’m a pretty lucky guy. Let me start by telling you guys that I’m 50 and have wanted a Parrot for a long time. When I was a kid my parents got a Yellow Headed Amazon. I remember the first time my father pulled it out of a cardboard box with huge welding gloves on. The bird was screeching as it was put into the big gold cage hanging from the ceiling.My parents split and the bird, Nicchi went with my Father. So through the years I have been in many pet stores and alway go over and check out the birds. A good friend of mine and his wife had a couple of Grays that i used to like playing with over the years. Having a pretty costly hobby already the cost of a Parrot never came to be.
My mother informed me one day that she was going to be getting a Parrot. Mom told me that a womans husband had died and she didn’t want to keep the bird. My mom just happened to be the first person to be inline for the Yellow Naped Amazon. I don’t know who was more excited, me or my mother? So I made sure I was at moms house the minute she brought the bird home. I had to put the cage together, with no instructions either. So the bird who’s name is Bill was sitting in a cat carrier waiting for his home to be built. The second it went in its cage it was looking at me. I put my finger on the cage like I used to do 30 years earlier and Bill came over and put the feathers up on its head and let me pet him. So I was at my moms house a lot more than I normally was. Bill was really cool, and he seemed to really like me. After about a week my mother talked to my wife about my mother giving me Bill. So when Nichole told me my mother was having a hard time with Bill and wanted me to have him I was so excited! So as soon as my son got off the school bus it was over to moms house in my van to bring my new buddy home. I turned the cage sideways and put Bill and his home in my van. It was a really warm day so we put the windows down and enjoyed watching Bill enjoy the breeze. At home it was so nice how good his big condo of a cage fit in our house. Nichole while not working at the time went ahead and really set Bill up. My story so far is such a good one, and it still is but here is where the bumps start to show up. Bill is not very nice to Nichole. He has bit her a couple times really hard. I too have been on the recieving end of that deadly mouth. Nichole after getting bit for no reason at all has almost all but given up on trying to do anything around Bill for fear of getting bit. I too have gotten a bit nervous having Bill on my shoulder, even after having him sitting on me a whole bunch of times. I believe that he bit me for reasons that could have been avoided if i would of used my head a little bit more. Bill was on my shoulder and my mother was visiting. As I walked past her she reached for Bill and he got scared and jumped causing himself to lose his footing and he just tried to hold on using his beak on my neck. Man did that hurt, and it scared the crap out of me. The other time Bill bit me he was just chilling out on my neck like he liked to do. I ‘m pretty sure he really liked it cause he would get real excited to do it. He would even climb down the outside of his cage and stretch pretty far to get on the couch to walk all the way to the other side of the sectional to just hang out on my shoulder. Having Bill on my shoulder was such a cool thing to have happen. The noises he makes while nesting on my shoulder i can tell that he is happy. Bill also rubs his head on my ear and plays with my hair. I didn’t even get nervous when he would nibble on my ear. So one time I moved my head around kind of quickly to rub his head with my ear. Well it didn;t work out as well as I thought, it made Bill upset and he bit my ear so hard his beak went through my ear and made it bleed a lot. I tried to not flip out but i couldn’t get him off me fast enough. I have had him back up a couple times now, but I’m not to sure about it now. It hasn’t made me not want him, but it made me realize that I need some help from some people that know what is what with these birds. I know I’m pretty lucky with my bird after reading some of the stories on here. I can put my hands anywhere in and on his cage. I can hand feed him anything. Arm, shoulder or stick I can have Bill get up anytime with no problem. Its getting him off my shoulder I have trouble with. The last two night Bill is going into his cage by himself for Night Night. I love opening up his cage in the morning and letting him out. He gets so happy and makes really cool sounds. I guess I’ll wrap this up and go over to the other sections to start asking some of the questions that I have. I just want to say thanks for reading all this if you did, and thanks before we even start out. I’m hoping that I can make Bill more happy with his human. Thanks and see you around, Mike D.
My mother informed me one day that she was going to be getting a Parrot. Mom told me that a womans husband had died and she didn’t want to keep the bird. My mom just happened to be the first person to be inline for the Yellow Naped Amazon. I don’t know who was more excited, me or my mother? So I made sure I was at moms house the minute she brought the bird home. I had to put the cage together, with no instructions either. So the bird who’s name is Bill was sitting in a cat carrier waiting for his home to be built. The second it went in its cage it was looking at me. I put my finger on the cage like I used to do 30 years earlier and Bill came over and put the feathers up on its head and let me pet him. So I was at my moms house a lot more than I normally was. Bill was really cool, and he seemed to really like me. After about a week my mother talked to my wife about my mother giving me Bill. So when Nichole told me my mother was having a hard time with Bill and wanted me to have him I was so excited! So as soon as my son got off the school bus it was over to moms house in my van to bring my new buddy home. I turned the cage sideways and put Bill and his home in my van. It was a really warm day so we put the windows down and enjoyed watching Bill enjoy the breeze. At home it was so nice how good his big condo of a cage fit in our house. Nichole while not working at the time went ahead and really set Bill up. My story so far is such a good one, and it still is but here is where the bumps start to show up. Bill is not very nice to Nichole. He has bit her a couple times really hard. I too have been on the recieving end of that deadly mouth. Nichole after getting bit for no reason at all has almost all but given up on trying to do anything around Bill for fear of getting bit. I too have gotten a bit nervous having Bill on my shoulder, even after having him sitting on me a whole bunch of times. I believe that he bit me for reasons that could have been avoided if i would of used my head a little bit more. Bill was on my shoulder and my mother was visiting. As I walked past her she reached for Bill and he got scared and jumped causing himself to lose his footing and he just tried to hold on using his beak on my neck. Man did that hurt, and it scared the crap out of me. The other time Bill bit me he was just chilling out on my neck like he liked to do. I ‘m pretty sure he really liked it cause he would get real excited to do it. He would even climb down the outside of his cage and stretch pretty far to get on the couch to walk all the way to the other side of the sectional to just hang out on my shoulder. Having Bill on my shoulder was such a cool thing to have happen. The noises he makes while nesting on my shoulder i can tell that he is happy. Bill also rubs his head on my ear and plays with my hair. I didn’t even get nervous when he would nibble on my ear. So one time I moved my head around kind of quickly to rub his head with my ear. Well it didn;t work out as well as I thought, it made Bill upset and he bit my ear so hard his beak went through my ear and made it bleed a lot. I tried to not flip out but i couldn’t get him off me fast enough. I have had him back up a couple times now, but I’m not to sure about it now. It hasn’t made me not want him, but it made me realize that I need some help from some people that know what is what with these birds. I know I’m pretty lucky with my bird after reading some of the stories on here. I can put my hands anywhere in and on his cage. I can hand feed him anything. Arm, shoulder or stick I can have Bill get up anytime with no problem. Its getting him off my shoulder I have trouble with. The last two night Bill is going into his cage by himself for Night Night. I love opening up his cage in the morning and letting him out. He gets so happy and makes really cool sounds. I guess I’ll wrap this up and go over to the other sections to start asking some of the questions that I have. I just want to say thanks for reading all this if you did, and thanks before we even start out. I’m hoping that I can make Bill more happy with his human. Thanks and see you around, Mike D.
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