Hello. I have an 18 year old Blue Fronted Amazon. I got him when I was single and it was just me and him for the first 10 years. Now enter my wife 8 years ago. Before my wife he always talked and love to be scratched. When she moved in he totally changed. He bites me and very rarely talks anymore. We had a very large homemade cage that required taking the door off a room to put the cage in. I admit I have somewhat neglected him because he was in the back room by himself and since he would attack and bite me he spent most of the day by himself except for feeding and putting the cover over him at night. I recently decided I was being a bad bird owner and bought him a really nice smaller cage so he may spend the day in the living room and I will push it back into the back room for quite sleep. I have always fed him well with pellets, fresh fruit and seeds on occasion.
Since moving him into the living room he does seem much happier and when the wife is not home he has let me scratch him again for the first time in 8 years!!!. He still only says one or two words very rarely. He has about a 20 word vocabulary and want to teach more but since he really is not talking I just try to say the words he already knows??
When my wife comes home and I try to approach the cage he wants to kill me.
Do you think now he will adjust and return to his old self now that we moved his location? I know he was attached to me and when I got married I feel he got really jealous....anything I can do to improve this situation and get my old bird back?
I really would just like him to return to talking. Sitting on my shoulder is not that big of a deal.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Here is a few pics of old cage and new and a picture of my Buddy.
Since moving him into the living room he does seem much happier and when the wife is not home he has let me scratch him again for the first time in 8 years!!!. He still only says one or two words very rarely. He has about a 20 word vocabulary and want to teach more but since he really is not talking I just try to say the words he already knows??
When my wife comes home and I try to approach the cage he wants to kill me.
Do you think now he will adjust and return to his old self now that we moved his location? I know he was attached to me and when I got married I feel he got really jealous....anything I can do to improve this situation and get my old bird back?
I really would just like him to return to talking. Sitting on my shoulder is not that big of a deal.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Here is a few pics of old cage and new and a picture of my Buddy.
