samansad

Thank you guys for all your help, Gilberts thread helping me so much. Latest update is that Alex is now stepping out of his cage. Funny was yesterday while he was out, I brought my food and sat on sofa in front of him to eat. After few minutes, I saw him trying to lean forward towards me, and tried to see what I was eating. I had spaghetti, so I offered him small piece and move towards him. He grabbed it from me and liked so much. That was a cool experience. I think that is a good improvement because even out of his cage he doesn't go away from me anymore. First few times he got out of cage, he used to ran back in to his cage even if I tried to move on the sofa. But now he eats from my hand and I tried to change his water bowl while he was on his cage and he just looked at me and continue to play on top of his cage. Here the video recorded first time he came on top of his cage:

Thank you all for your help. Your help is great and I learn so much from you all and this forum. I also uploaded a video of Alex. If you have time please watch it and help me to understand Alex better. Again thank you so much. https://youtu.be/8oOXKnzC1pk.

Those are great advises and thanks for being encouraging. I so love Alex and he is so cute. When I adopted him, I had only one reason and to give him best life I can. Neow: yes he brings his head down and basically let me touch his neck but sometimes after two or three mins he try to bite. So you mean I shouldn't be angry at him and stop giving anger look? (I don't make drama because I know they like it. So I just give him a calm No with a straight anger look to his eyes and he don't move while I am looking at him) Also there was this website that said blow in their face. I tried it today and he didn't like it. He got more aggressive and didn't allow me to touch him for a while. I attached two of his pictures(His cage is not full of toys now but this picture is the first day). He had this problem in his last home that he chew his tail. I did a search and I found out that it is because of being board and sad. In last 5 days he didn't chew and I hope I give him a good and happy life that he stopped chewing his tail.

Hi all, 5 days ago I got my first grey(I had parrot before but never had grey). His name is Alex and he is 18 years old. I adopted him. The last owner thought he is 9 years old but on the ring on his leg I saw 97 which I assume it is his birth year. The last owner had it for a year and she was the second owner. In past few days he learned our name and call us by name and he is so cute. Anyway I am new and I need your help. I have some issues with him and I want to work on it so we can have a great relationship. 1- He likes to bite and even when I am petting him, suddenly he bites so hard. (What is best way to stop him from biting?) 2- He doesn't like to come on my hand and he bites hard. Also as soon as I open the cage he goes on the side of the cage and he doesn't stand on his wood inside the cage so I cannot bring my hand close to his foot to make him come on my hand. If I bring my hand close, he bite badly or goes away. 3- Because he does not come on my hand I wanted to use spray to give him bath but he got so angry and start screaming. How should I bath him? I will appreciate your help and suggestion so I can build friendly and loving relationship with him. He get's food from my hand and he wakes me up with his good morning and if I don't go close to him he whistle till I go close and talk to him but when I try to touch him he bites. I read in the internet that I shouldn't punish him. So I am just trying to show him angry face say no and then after few second continue playing with him. Well with my last parrot I thought him not to bite by holding his beak and talking to him but I read that this method is not a good method for grey. Thank you Sam