Libbi24
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- Aug 23, 2023
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Hi all,
I posted recently about a cage size for an Ecelectus parrot I was adopting. But now I have another problem lol!
For some context: pickles is (around )a five year old Ecelectus parrot. He was found outside of a hospital in London. He was malnourished, and he had lost nearly all of his feathers. a rescue to tried to find his owners as eclectus parrots are expensive and hard to come by in the UK. He is pretty tame as well. However no one had come for him. Fast forward a couple of years a lovely lady took him in for that time. However unfortunately she had to move back to her home country and that is then how I ended up adopting him.
Heās a great little guy. He can speak two languages, and say all sorts of cool things. He steps up, and enjoys human company. However, Iām having a problem where heāll step up without a problem and then out of nowhere growl and lunge, heās actually bit me pretty hard on my neck. Iāve had biting parrots before so I understand why they do it. My reaction when he does this is basically make no reaction, I go ow so he knows heās hurt me and put him down on his stand and ignore him. However, it keeps happening. He flew onto my head today and I do not allow parrots on my head I donāt believe it is a good thing and I was in the process of actually doing my hair, so I asked him to step up, he stepped up for me and then took a chunk of out my hand.
He has been with me now for two days, but I have been to the rescue a handful of times to get him aquatinted with me. It seems as if heās frustrated but how do I get past this with him. Do I use positive reinforcement? I have never owned an Ecelectus before so any help would be greatly appreciated!
(Ignore the wall, weāre going to be decorating soon lol!)
I posted recently about a cage size for an Ecelectus parrot I was adopting. But now I have another problem lol!
For some context: pickles is (around )a five year old Ecelectus parrot. He was found outside of a hospital in London. He was malnourished, and he had lost nearly all of his feathers. a rescue to tried to find his owners as eclectus parrots are expensive and hard to come by in the UK. He is pretty tame as well. However no one had come for him. Fast forward a couple of years a lovely lady took him in for that time. However unfortunately she had to move back to her home country and that is then how I ended up adopting him.
Heās a great little guy. He can speak two languages, and say all sorts of cool things. He steps up, and enjoys human company. However, Iām having a problem where heāll step up without a problem and then out of nowhere growl and lunge, heās actually bit me pretty hard on my neck. Iāve had biting parrots before so I understand why they do it. My reaction when he does this is basically make no reaction, I go ow so he knows heās hurt me and put him down on his stand and ignore him. However, it keeps happening. He flew onto my head today and I do not allow parrots on my head I donāt believe it is a good thing and I was in the process of actually doing my hair, so I asked him to step up, he stepped up for me and then took a chunk of out my hand.
He has been with me now for two days, but I have been to the rescue a handful of times to get him aquatinted with me. It seems as if heās frustrated but how do I get past this with him. Do I use positive reinforcement? I have never owned an Ecelectus before so any help would be greatly appreciated!
(Ignore the wall, weāre going to be decorating soon lol!)