Normally in the morning before work I get Que out to hang out on the play stand. She always gets weird about it but never bites and after running up to the top of her cage and hanging upside down she would ummm well step up for upside down.
Well in the evenings when I move to the living room and sit by her cage to watch TV and/or crochet she gets really close.
So lately I have started letting her come out. She never runs to the top of the cage and well step up just as pretty from the perch.
So I have decided my grey is not a morning parrot. lol
We now come out ever evening. Not as long as when we did in the mornings but she seems to enjoy it better.
Even my husband is getting into it he well let her sit on his knee and offers her a treat ever evening.
Funny after 8 years I still learn new things about her.
You can "watch" them but it only takes a split second and your bird is gone. A blink of an eye I don't know about you but I can't move that fast. I love my birds way to much to risk it. Don't you?
No matter how much you think your cat is safe around your bird it only takes a tiny scratch to kill the bird.
I would never let the bird out when the cat is lose.
Either lock the cat up in a different room or crate train the cat.
I have heard the story to many times. Oh my cat/dog wont hurt my birds ever. And then hear oh no the cat/dog got the bird. I never thought it would ever happen.
My cat is 15 years old and never even looks at the birds to busy napping but I still lock her up. What if on of my birds got spooked and landed on my cat? It could happen.
Cats/dogs and birds can live together as long as the owner is willing to keep them apart.
Good luck
Keep trying. But remember to give your bird plenty of what he/she well eat. A hungry bird wont try new things.
It took me six month to get my Que off a seed only diet.
Try hanging Broccoli from the cage or favorite toys.
Yes this is normal. After a while he well stop asking to be feed. It more like he is just making sure it is there if he needs it and this is ok. It is important that he knows it is there if he needs it.
If you like you could try just warm foods in the evening cheaper then formula and it gives him that comfort feeding he is seeking.
If the cat managed to scrath him and you don't take him to the right now he may not be with you in a couple days.
I know you think he is not hurt but I had this same thing happen to a budgie once two days later Sky my budgie was dead.
So take him to the vet and do the meds even if you don't see anything.
When it come to my grey I worry all the time. It's weird I know but I worry she well start doing all the things you hear that greys have problems with. Plucking, cage bound.....I know its all "myths" that greys are more prone to this stuff but I can't help myself.
But she is fine and Im better now that its over. lol
Going to take her and Joey to the vet today to have nails done. I can do tips but they both need must more then tips off this time.
Poor Que keeps getting hung up on the cage and since she needs to go I am taking Joey too.
Normally I do them myself but my husband is really scared of holding them even wrapped in a towel. So I get very nervous and that makes the birds more upset.
So just taking them to the vet this time.
So they are going to work with me and to the vet when I am done.
Que does not ring. But she well make a beeping sounds sometimes when I dial the phone and sometimes she well answer it if I have the answering machine off and it rings to long.
She'll say hello or Pretty Puppy.(my old dog grooming job she use to go to work with me.)