Davidm

Thanks for all the good advice. That it will take time, that I know and honestly I don't have a problem with it. Today, well more like this evening, has been really nice, Jocke have said some new words to me and he has displayed a behaviour that I would interpret as curiosity, and he has really explored his cage. It's not much but i'm over the moon with joy anyway. He has completely stolen my heart. I'm so looking forward to the coming years together

Thank you so much for the kind words. It feels really good that it might be a chance that the two of us will go along fine. I'll keep working slowly and update as we go along. And if anyone have some tips or trix please feel free to tell me. I have another question. If i get another grey (that one to will be a rescue) even if they are in two separate cages next to eachother, do they have "company" of each other anyway?

Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum and also new to owning a big parrot, a beautiful CAG male. He is a rescue that I got, let just say quite quickly. I got him from a friend of mine, my friend came to me and asked if I could euthanise the parrot. The reason for this was that the parrot, called Jocke, was probably a wild caught parrot, the age was unknown but it had been here in the country for atleast 15 years, it's not hand tame and when coming close to the cage it's very frightened and squeeks. And my friend was the third owner, making me number four. My friend told me she had tried "everything" to tame it and know she had developed an allergy so she had to remove all her animals. Jocke was the only one they couldn't find a home to because he wasn't hand tame. I have always dreamt about having a CAG as a family member and of curse i couldn't bare to euthanise him. So I made a plan that if I couldn't make him hand tame or atleast tolerant of people (me) refilling his food and water without him being so scared, I would try and find a female for him and build an year around outdoor aviary with heated house so atleast i could enjoy him from a far and he could live out his days there being happy and maybe having some company from another CAG. The cage I got with him was non bigger that 30"x35"x60". So the first thing I did was to build a bigger cage ( 6ft,7"x3ft,6"x6ft,7", the weird measurements is because here in Sweden we have the metric system) and he really loves it. He do talk a little bit but wizzels alot. Now to my question, and I know maybe it is impossible to answer. But with time and practise do you guys think it is possible to make him hand tame or atleast tolerant of me changes his food and water without freaking out? I have only had him for a week so he has just started to settle in so I haven't done much with him, only talked softly and being there so he can see me. Sorry for the long post and spelling mistakes, but english is not my first languish