Timneh doesn't like me to touch her stuff

[Billdore]

I was cleaning the cups on her playstand and for some reason she was not happy with me when I went to put them back. She bit me while I was putting em back on so we had a little talk about the second cup. So she bit me harder. Not sure why she got so fired up I put new pellets in em and she aggressively slammed her head and threw pellets around. Once the cups were replaced she went back to normal. Don't touch my stuff Dad. We were doing a little flight trainging earier. She flew to her house and back twice so that was pretty cool. Then she started goofing around and flying back and forth on her open moon roof, instead of flying to me. Timneh doesn't bite aggressively often but she likes to protect her things. She really wanted to roug house earlier too so I said please don't hurt me too much and we wrestled for a bit and she did take it easy on my too. How should I act when she becomes so territorial over her stuff? I put the second cup aside and let her calm down and then put it on when she wasn't looking. She made a mess of her stand tonight sorry about the mess. But with a parrot it's basically one mess to the next lol. That's when you know they're having fun.

 

[Billdore]

Marching soldier.

 

[Scott]

Wonder if you could put her in another room while you are cleaning and rearranging? A bummer you would need to, but might calm her territorial drive?

 

[DRB]

I do some cage and room cleaning with Perjo on the cage, either on top of the door or on top of the cage. She seems to enjoy watching me do the work. When I get to the bottom of the door or cage she gets too curious and wants to grab at the cloth and walk on the grates which I just sprayed with poop off.

She will occassionally take a swipe at me, I think just to get some attention like "hey don't forget I'm here". What really surprises me is she has no fear of the vacuum cleaner and the long hose, but you put that small yellow microfiber cloth near her and shes freaks out.

 

[Mindy]

My Finnegan gets that way sometimes. He'll lunge at me for changing bowls sometimes. Not saying it's the right way to handle it; I say 'very funny' and continue doing what I'm doing. When he does the throwing the food around it cracks me up so when he wants to be funny now he throws stuff really hard. We call him our curmudgeon.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Interesting Bill coz Smokey would do the same thing when I was cleaning/feeding/rearranging her pad. At times she'd literally lunge at me and on more than one occasion got a good hold of my fingers and drew blood.
Friggin hurts!




Jim

 

[clark_conure]

clark doesn't do anything like that, but I kinda think any ammount of interaction that doesn't frighten the bird just makes him/her more acclimated to you. Perhaps it's a game perhaps he/she is mad, but you have to stand your ground too and do normal maintenance.

It's not like your chasing a bird around the inside of it's cage trying to grab it, or capture it in a hand towel. The bird needs to be able to accept the care-taking you provide, over time he/she should just give up and realize it's nothing to be bothered about. They are instigating the response, so it's not really your fault. Just do what you have to and they will realize there is "no there there". And move on from the bad behavior eventually.