OK, that bite hurt.

[sarafigal]

After just two weeks, Queequeg will now step up onto a wooden dowel. I was feeling so good about that, I thought I'd try to have her step onto my arm instead. She almost did it--foot hovering--she really wanted that nutriberry--and then she marched around to the other side of the cage top. I thought she was testing out another approach to my arm, but then suddenly she chomped into my hand. Owie. I stayed calm (ouch), said no, and moved away. No

Is there anything that helps these triangular little cuts heal? It is small but still hurts today.

I guess we'll stick to the dowel for another week or so?

 

[henpecked]

I find dark rum works well.

 

[antoinette]

Eina (ouch) I feel your pain
Best thing is IT DOES HEAL

 

[friedsoup]

a bandaid with neosporin on it helps
Keep at the stick training until all aggressive moves of your bird are history patience is the only suggestion here.

 

[sarafigal]

I did the bandaid with neosporin, and a good heavy red wine.

 

[MollyGreenCheeks]

I find dark rum works well.

LOL! It helps with broken hearts too!

 

[SpringCottageParrot]

I find dark rum works well.

Great idea, and if it's a cold night or you need extra comfort, put your shot of rum in a mug of hot drinking chocolate. We have a pub optic with a rum bottle in it next to the galley on our sailing boat. Just the thing for winter sailing around the UK.

 

[sarafigal]

Got it. Next time I get bitten, I explain to husband that I need a boat stocked with rum and chocolate. I like this parrot-owning thing.

 

[SpringCottageParrot]

/\ Yep, great idea!

 

[SunConureMom]

I hadn't thought of rum and chocolate for bites. My conure doesn't hurt too much but it could happen. Maybe I should stock up!

 

[KellyH]

My Blue Fronted Amazon will ALWAYS bite if I ask him to step up from his cage. He is extremely cage territorial.

My advise would be to always use the dowel to get him off or away from the cage. Take him to another room and then put him down on something. Try having him step up onto your arm again, but only if the feathers don't go up.

I know exactly what you mean about the foot going up and pausing. I thought at first it meant the same - that he was thinking about stepping up - until I read somewhere else out here on the internet that some birds will actually hold a foot up as a warning to back off. Ohhhhh! Lightbulb moment for me. lol So now I always check what the feathers on the neck and tail feathers are doing while he holds his foot up. I also noticed that if the foot is up and the head is down, back away. But, if the foot is up, feathers are flat and the head is up, means come and get me.

It's really a learning process. Whatever you do, don't take it personally. I know my zon is just not a hands-on type of bird. So we just tend to enjoy his company from afar.