KellyH
New member
Okay, at first I thought this was just an accident. Kinda like that Amazon overload thing you hear about.
Since FeeBee came to us he has always played very vigorously with his toys. He usually hangs upside down from the roof of his cage biting and shaking his toys. While he does this, however, he always bites at his own leg and 'yelps' sort of like a dog who just had his tail stepped on.
I thought maybe it was just an accident because he was playing so hard and got carried away with what was his own body and what was his toy that he was biting.
Today, him and I were playing with one of his foot toys. I would hand it to him. He would take it in his beak, transfer it to a foot, shake it and then drop it on the floor. But then he started biting his own leg and 'yelping' again before dropping it to the floor.
I was being careful not to get him too wound up and in overload mode because I didn't want to get bitten when he was taking the toy from my hand so we were doing it slowly and waiting a few seconds before I would pick it up and give it to him again. He wasn't eye pinning or squawking or anything else that would show me that he was getting close to overload.
Once he started biting his leg more than two times in a row, I thought I had better end the game. I don't want to teach him to hurt himself. :52:
Does anyone else's zon bite their own leg when playing or is this something that my bird has learned on his own sometime in his previous homes??
Since FeeBee came to us he has always played very vigorously with his toys. He usually hangs upside down from the roof of his cage biting and shaking his toys. While he does this, however, he always bites at his own leg and 'yelps' sort of like a dog who just had his tail stepped on.
I thought maybe it was just an accident because he was playing so hard and got carried away with what was his own body and what was his toy that he was biting.
Today, him and I were playing with one of his foot toys. I would hand it to him. He would take it in his beak, transfer it to a foot, shake it and then drop it on the floor. But then he started biting his own leg and 'yelping' again before dropping it to the floor.
I was being careful not to get him too wound up and in overload mode because I didn't want to get bitten when he was taking the toy from my hand so we were doing it slowly and waiting a few seconds before I would pick it up and give it to him again. He wasn't eye pinning or squawking or anything else that would show me that he was getting close to overload.
Once he started biting his leg more than two times in a row, I thought I had better end the game. I don't want to teach him to hurt himself. :52:
Does anyone else's zon bite their own leg when playing or is this something that my bird has learned on his own sometime in his previous homes??
