Glad to read that he seems to have had a change of heart with you. I am going to make some comments, that in no way are criticizing you, but made in the spirit of helping you have a better understanding and relationship with your new family member.
1. Rubbing on you. Unless its him rubbing his head against you, which is fine, letting him rub oh, say his butt, against you is a mating sign and amounts to masturbation. It is to be avoided as it will only exacerbate further mating behavior and stimulate hormone release. You want to try to minimize hormonal behavior as much as possible because unless you have a mating pair, this will only get your parrot frustrated and angry as there is no source of release. There are many threads on the forum about hormonal behaivior and ways to minimize it. Cardinal rule for touching - head and neck only, other areas are no-no's.
2. THis is a tough love one. Leaving a parrot for 2 days with no human contact is cruel and dangerous. Cruel becasue these are social animals and once he becomes a part of your familial "flock" he will be distressed by the separation. In the wild, a lone parrot is an easy meal for a predator, so they have evolved flock behaviors. Some species are pair bonded, like macaws, and some separation from the flock can be tolerated, as long as the "pair" is intact. FLocking type parrots, like Greys, Ringnecks and lorries flock in great numbers in the wild. Dangerous, because parrots, being so intensely curious, investigate everything, and even in a cage with supposedly 'safe' toys, they can get themselves into trouble requiring hman intervention to prevent harm and even death. I'll give you 2 examples that happened to my own little Amazon Salty, one quite recently. Awhile ago, he was playing in his cage with ahanfing wood toy, attached to the cage with one of these screw closed links ( very common on parrot toys). He had managed to unscrew the portion of the link and catch it inside his mouth and partially down his throat. I heard him thrashing around in his cage, reached in to grab him annd free the link from his mouth. Had I not been there he could have really damage his beak and throat and possibly died from the exertions. (Always check these links for tightness!!). The second example, I had put a new toy on his play chain outside his cage, consisting of a tunnel like section of these woven sea grass mats, joined by 2 wooden dowels about 2 inches apart. Salty managed to get his head stuck between the dowels and again, I looked up when I heard him thrashing around trying to free himself. Birds do that; if they are stuck somewhere they will thrash around continually to free themselves, to the point of exhaustion. So many possibilities for this on manmade toys exist and we dont even realize they are there. We have read on this forum about parrots getting beak stuck on those split ring type loops like you see on keychains, parrots getting strangled by a thread that worked loose on these cotton covered wire core perches and other cloth or string type toys. The point of telling you all of these, aside from being on the look out for them, is to illustrate that had one of these or other things happening while you were away for 2 days would mean coming home to the worst possible circumstances.
Owning a parrot is truly like having a very active, highly curious toddler who has no idea of limits or possible chain of events. We as the parronts, have to anticipate these for them.
