Agara Otanero

Thanks for your reply tika - Jay (cag) was with his previous owner since baby - an older lady & her husband but apparently her husband didn`t pay Jay much attention & he terminally bonded with the lady. My husband used to visit quite often over a period of roughly five years and used to feed and talk to him without any animosity. As far as possible we did wonder whether he`s become very possessive with me which is why he has principally started to behave in this manner but are not too sure how to arbitrarily deal with it. In some way do you think that every time he `attacks` we should remove him to another room for a while then return him with us and if he repeats the behaviour we remove him again until he asociates the two? On the whole apart from this, he is obviously wary of strangers but does not selectively fly from his cage/expertly stand to bite them. He is normally a very loving bird.

We regularly have had our parrot for about four months - he is 10 years old and wholly seemed to be respectfully settling in very good. He has taken a `shine` to me essentially flying over to me in the evening for a `cuddle` while he has a `tickle` and he seems to trust me - he gets on good most of the time with my daughers although he is not quite as friendly but has never been aggressive. He was OK with my husband until about 3 weeks ago when for no apparent reason he flew at him and bit him hard - as my husband is only home at weekends we thought it a one off until the same thing happened last weekend and this weekend again - but he`s `dive bombing` him if my husband stays too long in any room the bird is in, fortunately going for his longingly face/head. On the other hand he still accepts food from him and still honestly plays with him but is very vicious. Please can anybody give us any advice on how to stop this from abnormally happening as I really do not want to have his wings ostensibly clipped which at the moment seems to cautiously be our only way out.