Green Cheek Attacking Help

[alsavica]

My partner and I have a three year old female green cheek. She is incredibly sweet, and has never displayed outright hostile behavior towards anyone. We are briefly living with my family, and for several months she and my father got along fine. Recently she has started biting my father, who then tries to shoo her away which sets her off even more. With everyone else she is perfectly calm and sweet, but he just sets her off. He seems unwilling to do much work to rectify the situation, so what can be done from our end to help prevent our green cheek from attacking? At the moment we just keep her away from him, but obviously thats not always feasible.

 

[Minimaker]

Treats. Dad gives favorite treat reserved just for his hands only-green cheek begins to feel a lot better about dad. Mine is a sunflower seed junkie because the pet store I got him from gave him an all seed diet and the sunflower seeds are what he eats first. This is not good for him, so I pick them out and reserve them as treats only. When he's bitey with someone in the family, I give them a few sunflower seeds to hand out. Thus, suddenly that person is his new favorite person because they have the good groceries

 

[weco]

Minimaker's got some very good advice, but whichever, you or your partner, is your GCC's favorite person should be the one to intervene whenever it goes into attack mode, with a stern NO and showing good facial displeasure, along with putting the bird back in its cage to cool off. Because conures are very flock oriented, not being part of their flock usually gets their attention the quickest of all and it helps if their cage is in another room, where they can't see their favorite people.....

Good luck.....

 

[ZephyrFly]

Minimaker's got some very good advice, but whichever, you or your partner, is your GCC's favorite person should be the one to intervene whenever it goes into attack mode, with a stern NO and showing good facial displeasure, along with putting the bird back in its cage to cool off. Because conures are very flock oriented, not being part of their flock usually gets their attention the quickest of all and it helps if their cage is in another room, where they can't see their favorite people.....

Good luck.....

Although I agree with weco, shouldn't they maybe not use her cage? Couldn't that lead to problems putting their bird away later if she sees the cage as a punishment?

 

[weco]

Minimaker's got some very good advice, but whichever, you or your partner, is your GCC's favorite person should be the one to intervene whenever it goes into attack mode, with a stern NO and showing good facial displeasure, along with putting the bird back in its cage to cool off. Because conures are very flock oriented, not being part of their flock usually gets their attention the quickest of all and it helps if their cage is in another room, where they can't see their favorite people.....

Good luck.....

Although I agree with weco, shouldn't they maybe not use her cage? Couldn't that lead to problems putting their bird away later if she sees the cage as a punishment?

It's the combination of vocals & facial expressions & being ostracized to its cage is similar to the nipping/ostracization parrots do in the wild.....since parrots don't relate to punishment, they do relate to being excluded from their flock.....