spoilt bird!!!

[ellsiebird]

Since getting Ellsie back... she is nipping again to get her way..
she isnt viscious towards me so target training wouldnt work.... its just if i move her if she wants to be on something, or take something from her.... or dont give her enough attention, i get nipped.

There not as savage as they used to be (she used to take hold, put her feet in and fly backwards to get as much damage as possible.. this has stopped)

but now its so random i cant predict and dont know how to stop her, obviously the other guys only had her a month and she worked out that this worked for her with the other family...

How do i teach her now that this is not on? if i do a steardy 'no' i get tall and skinny, and 9tries to bite and attack more... so now she ends up being left where ever she was and walked away from or put in her cage... but i dont think shes getting it!!

how do i stop this brattish behaviour all over again!!???!!

 

[merlinsmom13]

She's too smart not to get it eventually. I do the walk away & put him in his cage for nipping. Since he wants to be w/me above all things, its effective. Merlin communicates w/his beak. You may not be able to eliminate it completely. If I know he is going to act negatively to something, I don't do it if it can be avoided.

 

[xreinx]

you might try the dish towel, my aunt had a lovebird, her name was cherry, I loved her, (even though she was a evil bird who didnt like anyone except my aunt, still have the scars to prove it)

when cherry first came to my aunts house, (her privious owner died and deeded her to my aunts family) she didnt like to be touched, and when the door opened on her cage, she would fly out, well we all knew she would step up when she wanted to.. but that was when she wanted to.

my aunt tried one day to pick her up and she bit my aunt hard enough to make her bleed, so my aunt dropped a dish towel over her, it was compleatly by accident but she dropped it when she stood to go get a bandaid, it scared cherry so she scrambled out from under it, but when she looked around, my aunt had gone.

looking back at it now, thinking of it the way a bird would think of it, that her human would have JUST dissappeared, it scared her enough so that she ran across the room towords my aunts voice and accually climbed up her leg to get onto her shoulder.

it would have been funny if the poor bird hadent been so afraid of being suddinly left alone. you might try that. just drop a towel over her and walk away

 

[MikeyTN]

You can actually make a bird afraid of the towel from doing so! I still say target training! Whenever my cockatoo becomes nippy, I bring the stick back out. She jumps right on it with no issue, no nipping and all back to normal. She will nip too if she don't get what she wants, but that's what target training was meant for, when you command the bird to do something on your terms.