Jumpingtadpoles
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- Oct 22, 2013
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- Parrots
- We are looking for a bird for our family. It's very much like we are pregnant and waiting for the day the new addition comes to the family!
Rico, my macaw I've had for almost 2 months, and is in the swing of his hormones, has been super mean.
He's constantly begging for something, but nothing makes him settle. He's always trying to regurgitate for me.
And at night it's been a fight to keep him off the bathroom floor where he tries to build a nest by pulling towels down and chewing them. He gets super mean at night. The last two nights I've resorted to putting him in his cage until he's exhausted and will go up his spot to sleep.
All the guessing and trying to figure something out to distract him is exhausting me, and he's scaring my family when he lunges at them.
If the kids are carrying blankets he lunges at them to try and take the blankets.
I keep repeating calm and steady wins the race, but his normal bed time has been 8. With this fighting to be on the floor it's more like 9/9:30, which is just making an even MORE nasty birdy.
I'm considering forcing him to sleep in his cage. Which will mean a week or so of everyone suffering, especially him, but at least he can't climb down and try to nest.
I'm limiting petting to head and neck.
I'm trying to trick train him. To try and distract him from regurgitating. Walking away does almost next to nothing. When you come back he starts again.
He regurgitates for me and both my girls.
So I'm not the only one, but I'm his main love.
What does everyone else do to stop the mean bird?
I'm tired today. I just want to play, sing and have my normal bird back. But his constant begging for "nothing", regurgitating, and running for nesting spots is driving me and the kids batty!! Not to mention his screaming if we aren't paying attention to him, which we don't want to, when it's all just mating dances.
We want to sing, talk, and play. He has none of it. Just mate mate mate.
He seemed to be getting past all this just last week, too
(
He's constantly begging for something, but nothing makes him settle. He's always trying to regurgitate for me.
And at night it's been a fight to keep him off the bathroom floor where he tries to build a nest by pulling towels down and chewing them. He gets super mean at night. The last two nights I've resorted to putting him in his cage until he's exhausted and will go up his spot to sleep.
All the guessing and trying to figure something out to distract him is exhausting me, and he's scaring my family when he lunges at them.
If the kids are carrying blankets he lunges at them to try and take the blankets.
I keep repeating calm and steady wins the race, but his normal bed time has been 8. With this fighting to be on the floor it's more like 9/9:30, which is just making an even MORE nasty birdy.
I'm considering forcing him to sleep in his cage. Which will mean a week or so of everyone suffering, especially him, but at least he can't climb down and try to nest.
I'm limiting petting to head and neck.
I'm trying to trick train him. To try and distract him from regurgitating. Walking away does almost next to nothing. When you come back he starts again.
He regurgitates for me and both my girls.
So I'm not the only one, but I'm his main love.
What does everyone else do to stop the mean bird?
I'm tired today. I just want to play, sing and have my normal bird back. But his constant begging for "nothing", regurgitating, and running for nesting spots is driving me and the kids batty!! Not to mention his screaming if we aren't paying attention to him, which we don't want to, when it's all just mating dances.
We want to sing, talk, and play. He has none of it. Just mate mate mate.
He seemed to be getting past all this just last week, too
(
