Flyte
New member
- Jun 18, 2007
- 354
- 3
- Parrots
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Blue & Gold Macaw, Madison;
Yellow Naped Amazon, Rocky;
Timneh African Grey, Tyler
Heya guys.
I just brought dinner up to my babies. They were sharing my meal of unseasoned steamed chicken and potatoes.
I have a lot of trouble getting my Grey, Tyler to eat his food. He would prefer I hand feed it to him. My boyfriend, who has recently started to develop a very good friendship with Tyler, only makes this worse by hand feeding him when he comes to visit. I always tell him not to but the two of them look so cute together.. lol
My birds are usually never locked in their cages, as they have their very own bird-safe room. Anyway, I lock Tyler in his cage when its dinner time and put food in his 'special bowl for yummy yummy' (Tyler says yummy yummy when he REALLY likes food so in trying to get him excited about new food, I use his words)
I told him to go in his cage and he starts in his most pathetic little tiny voice 'no..no.nononononono' like he usually does when he really doesn't want to do something. I picked him up and he immediately flew onto my Amazon's box.
(Tyler is the only one left fully flighted as his slightly twisted leg makes him very clumsy. Also, he likes to come close and taunt the other birds, using a mean tone of voice telling them they are bad, which initiates fights. He usually needs to get away quickly. I am going to be placing him in my bedroom soon because these fights worry me.)
I told him to knock it off and went over. He refused my up command with a very firm 'NO!' followed by 'nonononononon' so I went to the other side of the box and said very firmly 'Tyler you come up to mommy RIGHT NOW OR I'm gonna -' He was stepping onto my hand at this point and interrupted me with a very clear 'Ty Scared'.
I have never heard him say the word scared before but he will usually use 'Ty' in front of sentences when he is very nervous.. like Tylo instead of hello or Ty Love you.
I felt SO BAD for yelling at him. I told him very nicely, "Tyler needs to eat his food, yummy yummy, right? So Tyler has to stay in his cage and eat his food. Mommy will come and let Tyler out to play soon.'
So I locked him in his cage and he didn't say anything else.
I gave my Amazon, Rocky his food and was leaving his door open until Tyler started in with 'nononono' again. I think he wanted Rocky to be locked in too so I said 'Mommy will put Rocky in his cage for dinner, Tyler'.
Rocky didn't even notice as he was stuffing his beak with food as fast as possible.
I really don't know what to think, I suppose he might have been scared by my tone of voice. I don't think he was scared of being locked in his cage because his cage is where he goes by himself, when he's nervous.
I just went up to let everyone out and although he ate only a very very tiny bit, I told him he was a good boy. Picked him up, undid the doors and he gave me one of his big ol' kisses, complete with mouth smacking action noises
Funny little guy!
I just brought dinner up to my babies. They were sharing my meal of unseasoned steamed chicken and potatoes.
I have a lot of trouble getting my Grey, Tyler to eat his food. He would prefer I hand feed it to him. My boyfriend, who has recently started to develop a very good friendship with Tyler, only makes this worse by hand feeding him when he comes to visit. I always tell him not to but the two of them look so cute together.. lol
My birds are usually never locked in their cages, as they have their very own bird-safe room. Anyway, I lock Tyler in his cage when its dinner time and put food in his 'special bowl for yummy yummy' (Tyler says yummy yummy when he REALLY likes food so in trying to get him excited about new food, I use his words)
I told him to go in his cage and he starts in his most pathetic little tiny voice 'no..no.nononononono' like he usually does when he really doesn't want to do something. I picked him up and he immediately flew onto my Amazon's box.
(Tyler is the only one left fully flighted as his slightly twisted leg makes him very clumsy. Also, he likes to come close and taunt the other birds, using a mean tone of voice telling them they are bad, which initiates fights. He usually needs to get away quickly. I am going to be placing him in my bedroom soon because these fights worry me.)
I told him to knock it off and went over. He refused my up command with a very firm 'NO!' followed by 'nonononononon' so I went to the other side of the box and said very firmly 'Tyler you come up to mommy RIGHT NOW OR I'm gonna -' He was stepping onto my hand at this point and interrupted me with a very clear 'Ty Scared'.
I have never heard him say the word scared before but he will usually use 'Ty' in front of sentences when he is very nervous.. like Tylo instead of hello or Ty Love you.
I felt SO BAD for yelling at him. I told him very nicely, "Tyler needs to eat his food, yummy yummy, right? So Tyler has to stay in his cage and eat his food. Mommy will come and let Tyler out to play soon.'
So I locked him in his cage and he didn't say anything else.
I gave my Amazon, Rocky his food and was leaving his door open until Tyler started in with 'nononono' again. I think he wanted Rocky to be locked in too so I said 'Mommy will put Rocky in his cage for dinner, Tyler'.
Rocky didn't even notice as he was stuffing his beak with food as fast as possible.
I really don't know what to think, I suppose he might have been scared by my tone of voice. I don't think he was scared of being locked in his cage because his cage is where he goes by himself, when he's nervous.
I just went up to let everyone out and although he ate only a very very tiny bit, I told him he was a good boy. Picked him up, undid the doors and he gave me one of his big ol' kisses, complete with mouth smacking action noises
Funny little guy!