Should I?

[Echo]

Yep he is definitively pissed! I would be careful with your little boy! I have no experience with Amazons but I'm sure someone else also may have a demonic Zon who can decrypt the dark magic language! LOL

I love to read your posts by the way! Very funny and entertaining to read LOL! You should write a book!!

 

[GinaF]

I'm clipping him tomorrow.

It's not something that I typically agree with, but I can't have a flying meat cleaver in my house and I don't want to keep him caged. It might do him some good. I don't know. I'm on the fence about it. Perhaps if he ever settles down and realizes I don't eat exotic foods (although I may make an exception if he keeps up!) I'll let them grow back out. But his strong desire to attack without provocation puts him in the 'dangerous' category and I have to take steps to minimize that as much as possible.

I'm not ready to give up on him yet but I am starting to wonder if he needs a home with a man as his primary caregiver. He doesn't go after my son. In fact, my son can give him treats through the bars of the cage. He's grown up with birds, so he recognizes the signs that he's about to get bit. I do too, I just obviously don't pay attention to them because I've gotten nailed a couple of times already. Still yet, I constantly tell my kids not to mess with him, as I don't want them to be next on the list of sacrifices.

He's also fine with men, though admittedly I haven't had too many over to give it a go. From what I gather, his previous owner was male.

 

[Echo]

I agree with the clipping. I would do the same thing. Safety first.

 

[JerseyWendy]

I'm clipping him tomorrow. .

Put on your suit of armor first. :54: All joking aside, he DOES look like he means business. Make sure you're wearing your running shoes after clipping him, as he undoubtedly will give chase by foot, beak wide open, wings spread.

You really got yourself quite the Kamikaze there.

 

[GinaF]

I've already got one of his feathers Wendy. By the end of the week I should have enough to make a dreamcatcher!

Seriously speaking, the next time he bites me I'm biting him back.

 

[JerseyWendy]

Oh man...I need to put on Depends before reading your posts - no kidding!

That is going to be a VERY pretty dream catcher.

 

[ShellyBorg]

I would say clip him and I am a believer in flight. You are doing such a great job with this guy!

 

[Pinkbirdy]

OMG,At first I thought their was a male talking . Then I realized it was HIM!! I love rehomes you never know what they are going to say

 

[Captsteve]

Oh my! I think you should arm yourself with holy water, garlic, wooden stakes, silver bullets and a south american witch doctor or two!!!

If his head starts spinning, GET OUT!!!!!!

 

[henpecked]

I want a video of you clipping his wings !!! At least i know what to get you for Christmas,,, a big box of bandaids.

 

[GinaF]

I want a video of you clipping his wings !!! At least i know what to get you for Christmas,,, a big box of bandaids.

I don't mean to beg, but can you throw in some gauze bandages, lidocaine and some sutures? I have a feeling I'm going to need them.

 

[ShellyBorg]

Wish you where closer! I groom breeder birds all the time. Between us he would not be a issue. MAke sure you helper has a steady nerve and keep his head covered!

 

[GinaF]

I'm about to wire his beak shut. Between the demonic chanting and the bear claw trap he's got going on there. Do they make the type of masks Hannibal wore in Silence of the Lambs for parrots? You know, the kind with the wires over the mouth?

He's talented though. He could probably bite me with his butt.

The little demon actually had the nerve to try to grab me with his talon through the bars of the cage.
I wish I knew what his deal was.

 

[ShellyBorg]

Sounds like he is trying to get you before you get him. This is how my TAG acts around men. When I got him some one had hacksawed the hook off his beak, so I understand his hatred. My best friend lived with us for 2 years and spent time talking to him. He moved out a couple months ago. Spirit and him came to a friendship and Spirit even asks about him. When he comes over Spirit damns that he comes and talks to him. So there is hope.

 

[GinaF]

At some point, me and Lucifer here, are going to have to have a meeting of the God's. I don't really like his God though. Kinda scares the crap out of me. If he acts like this tomorrow, I'm locking his cage door and setting the deep fryer in front of it. Maybe that'll get a message through him.

In all seriousness, is it possible to take a bird that hates a certain gender and turn him around? I'm not quite committed to him, but I do love a challenge, albeit an easier challenge would be nice here. I'm kinda tired.

 

[ShellyBorg]

Bruce never really tried to turn Spirit around. He was just talking to him and it amazes me how far both of them went. To the point when I was making out a will of who got the birds he asked for Spirit to go to him! (Not sick just taking care in case of) I do think that a bird can be turned around, it may not be as close a bond as a man could get with him but close I am sure. You could always give it X amount of time, get him on a better diet and do some clicker training to insure when he goes to his next owner he is a better pet.

 

[GinaF]

That's where my commitment in him lies right now. Making him into a better pet and if necessary placing him in the right home. I'd be fine if he worked out here, but the reality of it is, I wish more for his happiness than my own.

Clicker training is going to be hard with a bird that won't even take treats from your hand. He's not food motivated... at all. If fact, his reward seems to be biting me. He appears to derive a great amount of pleasure from that. Bonus points if he draws blood, which, he's also quite fond of.

 

[ShellyBorg]

There is nothing wrong with that. I have a quaker I raised from 2 weeks old that I am rehoming because she really wants anyone but me! Had that silly bird 5 years and this year she laid a egg and started looking for some one to bond with.

 

[christinereed]

Well, I think Emmy likes him. I played your video of him and she climbed down from her cage, walked across the couch, got on my knee, opened her beak and put her tongue on the phone screen.

She makes mumbling/grumbling sounds, too, sometimes.

 

[Pajarita]

A week is nothing!!! It takes much longer than that to calm down an aggressive bird which is, most likely, sexually frustrated and physically uncomfortable. And he might not attack your boy but he wasn't happy at all with him putting his face to him like that (see how he had his neck feathers up, was whipping his head and biting the atom?). He needs to be let out on his own (nobody approaching him at all) with just people calmly walking around doing their business not too close to him and without interacting except an occasional verbal one.

Please don't clip him! He is such a magnificent animal and he doesn't deserve the punishment. I know that you took him in to do him a favor and that was very kind of you but maybe you were not as prepared as you thought you were to handle an aggressive zon...