Yellownape
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Hello everyone!
Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself to the community. My name is Michael and I currently own a Yellow Nape Amazon named Slugworth. I did not name him as he was Uncles bird. My Uncle Bill (mothers brother) was diagnosed with terminal rectal cancer last March and he asked me if I would take and care for Slug as he is not going to be around for much longer. Slug was originally my Mothers bird but when she became ill with breast cancer back in 87' she asked Bill to take Slug. And now Sluggish again has to come to a new home courtesy of cancer.
I have had other birds in the past. We had a pair of Red Headed Congress and they were great but I had to find them a new home because they were so noisy my wife couldn't take it. She loved those birds but the constant noise just took its toll. Then I took in a Moluccan Cockatoo who was awesome. But that bird came from a really bad situation where he was kept in a cat carrier in a car by a drug addicted woman who got the bird from her boyfriend when he went to jail. The bird hated women as a consequence of being neglected by his female care taker. He was fine with me and I could handle him fine but he would go out of his way to attack my wife and being a very large bird with a dangerous beak I just couldn't keep him which really tore me up.
Enter Sluggie. Slug is a pretty good bird and we are not sure it is even a "he"? Uncle Bill told me it was a male but I have my doubts. Slug is quite vocal and usually isn't too annoying although if i am home and he hears my voice he will start sqwaucking and make a ruckus until I talk to him. He seems to want very much to always be in the center of things. I have him in the livingroom where we spend most of our time and that seems to help.
He definitely does not like my wife and has bitten her pretty severely on several occasions. This has caused some division between the wife and I because she really wants to interact with the bird and be able to handle him. He has also bitten me a few times which is not pleasant. The last time I tried to hold out to show him that biting would not get him anywhere but it was just to painful and I had to shake him off. It seems he only bites me when I don't pick him up regularly? He has a strange personality for sure and I still have not really had him long enough to figure it all out.
We do enjoy him and he is quite entertaining. Hopefully with time and experience we will all become closer and better mates. I need to trim his toe nails buy have not yet gotten up the courage to wrap him up and do this. I don't want him to get pissed off and start biting me all the time.
Anyway nice to be here and I hope to learn more as time goes on from the members here. Happy New Year to all!
Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself to the community. My name is Michael and I currently own a Yellow Nape Amazon named Slugworth. I did not name him as he was Uncles bird. My Uncle Bill (mothers brother) was diagnosed with terminal rectal cancer last March and he asked me if I would take and care for Slug as he is not going to be around for much longer. Slug was originally my Mothers bird but when she became ill with breast cancer back in 87' she asked Bill to take Slug. And now Sluggish again has to come to a new home courtesy of cancer.
I have had other birds in the past. We had a pair of Red Headed Congress and they were great but I had to find them a new home because they were so noisy my wife couldn't take it. She loved those birds but the constant noise just took its toll. Then I took in a Moluccan Cockatoo who was awesome. But that bird came from a really bad situation where he was kept in a cat carrier in a car by a drug addicted woman who got the bird from her boyfriend when he went to jail. The bird hated women as a consequence of being neglected by his female care taker. He was fine with me and I could handle him fine but he would go out of his way to attack my wife and being a very large bird with a dangerous beak I just couldn't keep him which really tore me up.
Enter Sluggie. Slug is a pretty good bird and we are not sure it is even a "he"? Uncle Bill told me it was a male but I have my doubts. Slug is quite vocal and usually isn't too annoying although if i am home and he hears my voice he will start sqwaucking and make a ruckus until I talk to him. He seems to want very much to always be in the center of things. I have him in the livingroom where we spend most of our time and that seems to help.
He definitely does not like my wife and has bitten her pretty severely on several occasions. This has caused some division between the wife and I because she really wants to interact with the bird and be able to handle him. He has also bitten me a few times which is not pleasant. The last time I tried to hold out to show him that biting would not get him anywhere but it was just to painful and I had to shake him off. It seems he only bites me when I don't pick him up regularly? He has a strange personality for sure and I still have not really had him long enough to figure it all out.
We do enjoy him and he is quite entertaining. Hopefully with time and experience we will all become closer and better mates. I need to trim his toe nails buy have not yet gotten up the courage to wrap him up and do this. I don't want him to get pissed off and start biting me all the time.
Anyway nice to be here and I hope to learn more as time goes on from the members here. Happy New Year to all!
