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Running them to a vet is a good idea.

Back when I was nursing him back to health in the Middle East, he used to ride on my shoulder, I could pick him up. Feed him. AND DEN. it went down hill. Folks that have been around probably remember the infomus eye picture I posted. Still have a small scar on my eye lid, along with the hands and fingers. I don't think Ill risk an eyeball again LOL. Kinda makes you wonder why we do it. I saved him from a dumpster at an open air market. You would think they would show a little appreciation. You mentioned stages. I think its age, hormone levels start falling off, maybe thats it. With him though, he got bagged right out of a tree in Africa, stuffed in a box and sent for a boat ride that one would not consider a Carnival Cruise., so I can imagine that would screw anyone up . I do however attrribute him having come from a large gene pool with being really smart, I think were around a 1K vocabulary at this point Maybe more, I havent really kept track, but he will conversate. I did learn very early on when you get the stink eye from them, best to walk away LOL.

Well, this particular part of the war is over. Every night since I first posted, he goes in his cage no fight, bows his head so I can scratch his head through the bars. Hasn’t tried one time to bite. Stays there as long as I scratch. Any suggestions on what else I should chance some flesh on? LOL😂

The wife is off today, and he is a moms bird, but I wanted to clean and put him up for another test, and again, no fight. Maybe age is mellowing him. Best as we can figure, he turned 8 last month. im still not convinced to let my guard down, but it is unusual.

It was the only thing I could think of, probably has nothing to do with it, but thought I would mention it. Out of curiosity, I did some googling and found this article amoung MANY others. Like I said, it kinda boils down to "Who knows" Now a days everyone has an opinion on everything, and they are usually differing ones. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120710120229.htm

I’m not sure about Greys in particular, but years ago, another lifetime actually, I worked in an office building. They put up some power lines a year after I was there, and birds started to crash into the windows. Did a little research at the time, and power lines generate magnetic fields. Some birds, maybe all birds navigate using the earth’s magnetic poles during migration. Some research has shown a mild causality between power lines and brain cancer in humans. Proved up or not, real estate next to power lines tend to be less expensive. They even have done studies about cell phones and cancer. Who knows 🤗 Might be worth some updated research if you can’t find a cause. Last time I looked was over 30 years ago. That was before google lol An easy way to check the pole you’re talking about would be to get a plain old compass and walk around it. If it’s active the compass will be erratic if it’s putting off anything.

That’s twice, no bowed head this time. I detected a possible stink eye. LOL. I remain vigilant. 🤗

Any strong magnetic fields or power lines close by? Just a thought 🤗

I was cleaning Sukei’s cage and when I finished, I said go in……and he did, went to the back perch and bowed his head. Lol Normally it’s a fight, and a good chance of loosing flesh. I’ll let you know if this was a fluke or not tomorrow 😂

Well I tried it, (Through the bars) and he seems to like it. I let him out and he followed them accross the carpet, right to the perch and up the dowel, and eventually get in the cage of his own volution. Good trick for avoiding loss of fingers

For some reason, the title of this thread "Correct Response to Biting" light up in bold for me as unread. Obviously it was a cookie error, but the old joke came to mind is "OUCH !" Then some cursing, followed by some antibiotic, lol. After all it took to save Sukei, It's a wonder after the trying to rip my eye out incident, he didn't end up in a soup LOL. For me, I have tried everything. I have just had to embrace it, prepare counter measures and pray He is just a mommy Grey, Ive accepted it, like growing old. Try to do it with grace. One thing, I can get away with is scratching his head through the cage bars, he wil sit there all day for that, so I can maintain some physical contact with him. He is 8 now, im hoping as he grows older he will mellow. Add Ta

"I'll need to look here on your website." I can't take the credit for the site, I just fixed it. The data is all the member's contributions. Thanks though

I’ll have to try that …….. at a distance

I know this is late, but during transport from the Middle East, I was concerned about Sukei’s travel cage as extended confinement and trying to balance during being moved all the time, we made (wish I still had the pictures) a vertical cubby space made out of Tupperware, lined with a really soft fluffy towel and bolted it to the back of the carrier, it was about 5 inches deep and a foot high. We angled it back slightly to act like a standing recliner. I actually saw him in it when we picked him up at the cargo terminal. I looked in and didn’t immediately see him, and then he came out and got on the pearch. He had a few choice words LOL, but he looked comfortable. US Fish and Wildlife didn’t remove it when he got to quarantine, and put him back in the carrier for the final trip so I assume they approved. It was a temporary setup, but might give you a few ideas.

Everyone loves drama lol, I’m with you, too much garbage to go through. Registration is wide open, just have to prove your human and have an email. Like was previously posted, I’m sure there will be unwanted activity, but I’ll play wack a mole. There is so much good information here, see if we can kick start it. Enjoy your weekend!

Few people know about the yule log ! It's really cool. Thats almost my exact setup, right down to the RING camera placment

I am guilty of going dark. Im going to try and start posting more. All my people are now working remotly permently. That was a fun project. 23 of the 36 folks required in home visits to get them settled in. It was a strange thing seeing how folks live differently then what you imagined and what their pet setup was. (Story for a different time) Everything is on automatic, and I built the remote infrustructure to be fairly fool proof. There are days when the servers in Canada or Germany like to act up, but for the most part things are ok. Just updates, patching and the occational operator error. I kinda miss the in person interaction, so I have found myself talking to Sukie and Kasey a lot. In a way, I am in my own cage, looking out the window. Well actually I am in my own cage looking out a window LOL. Save a lot of gas money ! Lets see if we can breath some life back into the house that our feathered friends built.

Little late, how is the new house? I remember moving Sukie half way accross the planet. I shipped his cage too. He ended up in 30 day quarrentine in up state NY. When we got him from the airport, we put him back in his same house by the window, and it was like nothing happened. Ive found that the only thing that bothers him, is a cage swap, even when it was two times the size of the original, he went quiet for a week or so. Just sat on the pearch as close to the side of the new cage as he could, and then it was business as usual. Hope your enjoying your new home

Thats ok, Sukei has started barking. What a cool place, nothing like that around here either.

You could rent him out as a wood chipper LOL. I say let the birds work ! LOL J/k

Alert the media, updated news ! Sukei still bites the crap out of me unless Im real careful. Big news right? LOL He is a momma's grey. His vocabulary since I last posted is HUGE ! He laughs, burps, sneezes and says bless you when you sneeze, everytime. Its funny.

After some thought, and the level of activity here, Ive opened registration with only email validation. That will probably bring some activity and new members. It might also bring advertisments for personal hygiene and such LOL. Keep an eye out for those, and report them, and ill wack a mole for a while. There are alot of people that register, but they kind of look like spamers so I don't let them in. We might be missing new potential members that way. See what happens. Can't hurt

Well, I guess you will find your active members At some point there is a mass mailer function where you can send all members an email notification (If they used their real emails) and notify of the adress change. However it is a small server and I don't want to get hit with spamming out of the gate. See how it goes. Don't have to do it all at one time.

greyfourms.org it will still be there.