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Hi, I have actually been a member here for awhile, but havent been on the forum in a long time. I have a seven year old Timneh Grey named Breezy. He is primarily bonded to me, but he likes my husband as well. Hoping to keep learning about Greys here.

If there is, I haven't found it! For Alfie, I put things on the floor. He prefers being up high so anything I don't want him to mess with goes on the floor when he's out. He very rarely explores the floor so everything is generally safe there. With Pixel and Widget... NOTHING is safe. 🙄

Alfie seems to have been hard hard by his hormones this year. I only had to walk into the room and say hello and he would start regurgitating. Only thing is he will then immediately eat it afterwards. Gross! I also had to be really careful what foot toys I gave him. Anything round was out of the question as he would treat it like an egg rather than flinging it at my head like he usually does. After that he went through a spell of being quite distant from me and then he would fly to the back of my head and bite it. That was after some upheaval when I was decorating the rest of the house though... and I also decided to cut my hair really short so I think it was just too much change in a short time. At the moment we are in some kind of middle ground. He will let me scritch him out of the cage on occassion but he will not put his head down for scritches whilst he is in his cage. He reserves that for my housemate instead these days. He follows me round the room to see what I'm up to and will fly to me as well (without attacking the back of my head).

So many great birdie memes out there. Which ones are your favorites?

Good to see you Breezy! Hope you find time to post more about life with your TAG (that's what I have also).

HAHAHA! I'd also saved this one from that FB grey forum to share here!

I had a macaw that would also romance me with regurgitated food. She'd gag/bring it up (I could see the food in her mouth) and then she'd re-swallow it like "nevermind, you're not worth this delicious crop full'. Um, thanks -- really, but I didn't want it anyway. But my male CAG Snickers is quite the lover and is very generous with regurgitated food sharing. (Is there a gag emoticon in these boards?) I think the problem/joy of greys is how intensely they feel things. I admit, he does often think I am his girlfriend. As long as he isn't actually suffering/pining/sad with his delusion that I am his his mate -- it's fine. I provide lots of platonic love, good eats, adequate out-of-cage-time and toys. I just have to be careful where I touch him so I don't send a mixed message (which would be unfair to my Snickers -- I want him happy, not pining). I do think it's best to stay close to head/neck/throat to be safe and keep my parrot happy and within normal cross-species relationship boundaries.