Sad - my Amazon hates me now :(

[awdee]

I REALLY hope it's hormones!! Odd I had thought that birds mate in the spring it's middle of winter here! Then again this is his 1st winter here I've been cranking the heat up since he doesn't like being cold.

Oddly him biting is bad but him ignoring me seems even worse as it makes me sad I am trying to give him as much love as I can and as much attention as possible. But I can't stay with him 24x7 sometimes I DO want/need to go out and do my own thing. It just seem to get worse when I go out.

hey I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL here giving me support. I feel a bit better!

 

[lene1949]

What happened, when you came home from your holidays? Did you immediately go to him, and pretended you hadn't been away? I'm just wondering whether you scared him with your excitement of seeing him again?

 

[ftlaudmom]

This is a long shot I know as I've said I'm no expert but I've watched a lot of videos and read a lot in the first few weeks I got my OWA. One guy said that birds can be like people in that sometimes we want the ones that we can't have. Well actually I've found that to be true with most animals. Maybe you're trying too hard. HP told me that when I made my first post for advice and I took his advice and my bird seemed to warm up to me more when I didn't push so hard. My cat was the same way. My husband doesn't like cats and she just seemed determined to win him over and at times would choose to lay on him rather than on me even though I'm the cat lover. I admit I was a little jealous but now they're the best of buddies and she can take or leave me. That's how it is sometimes.

There's a video on youtube of a man who is working on socializing a very aggressive macaw. He sits by the cage and clicks the clicker and then gives a treat. He did this for a few weeks until the bird got to know that the clicker meant treat. He doesnt get a treat without a click. Then he moved on to the target. No treat unless he moves a little toward the target. And so on and so on until the target game becomes fun. I was doing the target for a couple weeks before I actually could get my OWA to come to me willingly. He still complains once in a while but he comes just the same and doesn't try to bite. I really hope I don't ever end up in a situation like yours but its highly possible because my little one is only 4 so maybe he'll change too when he gets hormonal.

Maybe you should give him a little space and see what happens.

 

[awdee]

What happened, when you came home from your holidays? Did you immediately go to him, and pretended you hadn't been away? I'm just wondering whether you scared him with your excitement of seeing him again?

yup that's what I did I went right up to him at the bird sitters saying "hi BABY mommy's home!!!" he lifted 1 foot looking like he was asking to step up as usual but immediately bit me HARD. After that he bit the bird sitter as well (he hasn't done that for the 3 weeks he was there). Then afterwards we put him in the travel cage he lunged at me when I was close

After going home I left him to calm down for a day before picking him up again. The rest..well you already know