Grumpy

Yes, it really helped At least you can try, there's nothing to lose.

My bird started chewing tips of its wing feathers some time ago for no obvious reasons; has got a very spacious cage, lots of toys, other animal friends, is out of the cage for at least 5 hours a day ... So one day, I introduced a cat's feather teaser as a new toy, and chewing is reduced to minimum, instead my bird chews on his toy now

Exactly! But then I am the distressed party .

Ha, ha, You really made me laugh, though fortunately non of my cats is of the caterwauling type, but there are some other as irritating sounds as well .

To keep you informed, at the moment Cockey is on his swing practising some new sounds and possibly trying to use some new words .... But so far, he loves what I hate most, and that is meowing almost at the top of his voice, guess why

Ha, ha, At least there is something "grey" in the post I was also confused reading about the lizard's tail ... but when there was mentioning of a poor pinky, I realised it must have been some snake in question . Good laugh after all .

Thank you all for nice pieces of advice. I was just wondering what was going on with my bird since many other start talking at an earlier age, but am quite satisfied with him. The highlight of the day, actually, is the early morning when he wakes up and is so happy to see me . Then I let him out, and while I'm feeding my other pets, though Cockey is first on the list of priorities, he starts chasing me all over the place just to be as close as possible. Could be bothering at times, but is it not love .

I am not quite sure what you mean by "the time limited in Serbia" ... if you think of the climate and sunny days here, it's the same as almost everywhere else, climatic changes in progress, with lots of extremely hot days during the summer, even this February was no exception, so we had 23 degrees Celsius only a couple of days ago ... and my bird's cage is facing the window, just a few inches apart, so I'll soon have to pull down the shutters.

Yeah, I know there is plenty of time, but on the bird side

Besides his playground with three different size and shape swings, my bird favours the living room door frame, but he never chews it, though tried at first ... however, that's rather a solid wood and I added a toy on top of it as a sort of distraction, so Cockey is happily sitting atop the door gnawing his feathery toy. At the same time that simple toy, a cat teaser, helped him to get rid of the bad habit of chewing tips of his own wing feathers . PS. The door is at the back of the avatar pic, the right hand corner, so it's also a good flying route all the way from his stand where he is chewing the wind catcher

In case he is not going to acquire any more new words, Cockey is still my feathery friend, difficult to deal with at times, as all greys are, but chaming and irrestible as well. I know that he has bonded with me so much and wants my presence all the time, and only his morning "chase", when he's out of the cage looking for me and flying over to another room where I am, just to perch on my shoulder, WOULD DO .

My CAG, Cockey, has been with me since November last year. When I got him, he was round a year old then. The bird is completely tame, cuddly, fully flighted, and well adjusted to its surroundings, has lots of other animal companions ... three cats, two dogs ... is out of its spacious cage most of the day ... but ... as far as his talking abilities are in question, he uses his name quite often, does some whistles trying to sing ex Yu national anthem, tries to mimic cats' sounds and nothing more except for some unpleasant sounds asking for attention Even when pronouncing his name, it's not quite clear and is not in my voice. Is he a lousy talker, or there is still a possibility he' may catch some other words/phrases, or sounds? Ps. Before Cockey, I had two hand fed cockatiels who, already as babies, were singing the anthem ...

"One day she will be ready for human hands and when she can be relaxed, I can find time to post a photo". The time certainly will come, and then we'll enjoy watching your pictures

I was pestering my bird so much, that he almost bit me, twice

A jolly happy bird he is! Here's my Cockey at the porch of his dog carrier, non the less happy by the space he's been offered Besides having a roomy cage, most of the time he's out, doing antics on his playground

Her name is Mo (CukiBuki's Daisy) and is only a four-month old EB Nobody should worry, they are at a safe distance, though have made friends so far. The pics were taken the first day Mo arrived ...

A picture is worth thousand words ... Btw, I have to be more aware of what the bird could do to my cats, since I saw him, not once, driving them away from his favourite spots ... You have probably noticed that I have some other smaller, exotic birds (canaries) and I always leave some lights on during night as a measure of precaution. When my bird arrived, he was wary of the cats at first, but that lasted just for a day or two ... now he's the boss The cats were interested in him when arrived, but the intrest vanished the moment they heard him squeak so loud that they immediately looked for some refuge

A nice cage it is!

The "voice raising" goes just to the acceptable level, should be well balanced of course. I've never scared him.

Btw, my Cockey enjoys "solving a problem" with a bundle of colourful straws, and needs less than a minute to take them apart, but never swallows a part of it. However, here he is doing acrobatics on his swing with a newly attached plastic toy ... Sorry for the poor quality pics due to a bad ligting and a cell phone cam.

There he is, happy and inquisitive, enjoying the acrobatics on a new swing ...

I do agree that, if bird's properly trained, the height doesn't matter. The top of my new bird's cage is above my eye level, and he readily steps up if I'm confident that he should do it. The same applies if he is atop of the room doors, the spot he favours while having his free flight across the room. However if he does try to bite, or better to say is about to, I just raise my voice and he readily does what I want him to ...

Temporarily this is my bird's cage ...

My bird has recently developed a bad habit of chewing its wings' flight feathers, the tips of ... He seems healthy and is fully flighted, but obviously there is something missing. I know that his cage is not big enough until I get him a bigger one, or possibly make an indoor aviary, but he's out of it for the most of the day, has plenty of toys to play with, good food with the addition of veggies ... Maybe it's an issue of overbonding already, since he may be on my hand enjoying head scritches, kisses, but at the same time he starts overpreening and nibbling/chewing the tips of the flight feathers. By the way, he also has his regular baths, either spraying or he takes a sink bath himself. I will replace the cage asap, but am not sure it will help, since I know lots of stories about birds having the best conditions possible, but the chewing issue still on. Anyway, would appreciate some suggestions ...

Anyway, to my opinion homemade toys are much better and more attractive to our birds, not to talk about the money saved.