Hi everyone, so I adopted Monkey a little while ago from a pet store. The store said he is about 3 years old, don't know his sex actually, and that someone just dropped him off because they were moving and couldn't care for him. He has been at the store for some time before I got him. He loved me from the second I held him, cuddled me and now kisses me and loves when he sees ME. Well he hates my husband since day 1 and my sister. The first day out he came off of me and onto the couch then ran up to my husbands leg fluffed up and tried to bite him, it was pretty funny and cute. If my husband comes close to me he makes this growling type noise, my husband isn't too fond of Monkey either so the feeling is mutual but Monkey does it to my sister also, I am actually on vacation and she is cari for him and she says he is laughing at her when she tries to change his food, which I think is the growling. I thought that GCC could like more than one person, is there a way to get them to like each other or is this normal?
GCC hates my husband
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roxynoodle
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Some conures like more than one person and some don't it seems.
I never had much luck getting my Blue Crown to like my ex fiance but I also think he could have done more to win her over.
Your husband and sister can try giving him his food, cleaning his cage and giving him all his fruits and veggies and other special treats each day. They might also try making friends with him when you aren't home or out of sight and sound. Handling him in an unfamiliar room might help as well.
Some also suggest you should hand the bird to them to show the bird they are accepted flock members.
But, if the humans don't want to make an effort to win him over, they probably won't.
You may have to watch him for hormonal behaviors towards you as well.
I never had much luck getting my Blue Crown to like my ex fiance but I also think he could have done more to win her over.
Your husband and sister can try giving him his food, cleaning his cage and giving him all his fruits and veggies and other special treats each day. They might also try making friends with him when you aren't home or out of sight and sound. Handling him in an unfamiliar room might help as well.
Some also suggest you should hand the bird to them to show the bird they are accepted flock members.
But, if the humans don't want to make an effort to win him over, they probably won't.
You may have to watch him for hormonal behaviors towards you as well.
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Don't know if conures are anything like cockatoos, but if they are...you are his and he/she is not sharing you. There is no need in his/her life for competition. In my experience with a cockatoo, the best you can hope for is tolerance.
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Yes, they can be possessive like 'Toos about their special human. Maybe less dangerous though to the competition, lol!
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We all say that somehow they pick us, we do not pick them. No matter what we think!
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Awwww....it's very frustrating for the people Monkey don't appear to like. He MIGHT be intimidated by your husband and sister as well. And also, if your husband isn't very fond of Monkey...Monkey can sense that and react in a hateful manner.
Our Franklin was getting very bonded to me, still is very much partial to myself over my husband and kids. He WILL go to them, but at the first opportunity he'll run back to me. We taught Franklin from day one..."BEEE NIIIICE!" So if he'd fluff up and run at someone or another of our birds, we'd block him or move him and say "BEEE NIIIICE!"
It took a few weeks, but he caught on, now if he starts acting like a bully we just have to say "Frankieeee....Beee Niiiice...." and he backs off.
Good luck with your Monkey.
Toni
Our Franklin was getting very bonded to me, still is very much partial to myself over my husband and kids. He WILL go to them, but at the first opportunity he'll run back to me. We taught Franklin from day one..."BEEE NIIIICE!" So if he'd fluff up and run at someone or another of our birds, we'd block him or move him and say "BEEE NIIIICE!"
It took a few weeks, but he caught on, now if he starts acting like a bully we just have to say "Frankieeee....Beee Niiiice...." and he backs off.
Good luck with your Monkey.
Toni
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I have to agree with you Nakiska, you can communicate with these birds by talking to them in a forceful voice. If Amigo is doing something he shouldn't be doing and I catch him in time before it's too late, (like taking a bite out of the baseboards), he'll stop, look at me, and walk away. Disgruntled, but I know we communicated.
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My sister had a Meyer's that was hard for me to figure out. He loved to chat with me, but didn't want me near him, lol! I was the one who taught him most of his vocabulary during weekends he stayed with me while she was traveling with her now husband. But, I had to be very careful feeding him or he would try to get me. And when I went to her house as soon as I walked in the door he would call greetings to me. But, yet, he never wanted me close by. So that one was really odd, for a bird to be so happy to see me, but only if I kept a respectful distance. So he definitely didn't love me but found me fun to talk with.
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