Amber

Thank you for all the welcomes! Also thank you for the advice! Yes I did know Tuki was Hebrew for parrot!

I've recently had our 3rd daughter and I don't know if this is making Tuki act unusually aggressive. I know that one of my dogs acted very differently whilst I was pregnant. Animals definately know if you are pregnant! They can tell something's different! Tuki just stares at my baby whenever I have shown her to her, but she has that look in her eye like she wants to bite her! I don't know if parrots feel jealousy. My 2 older daughters are very well behaved and have been brought up around animals. They would never tease Tuki or anything, so her aggression isn't to do with nasty treatment or anything. I often wonder what she'd be like with another Grey as she wanted to kill my budgie ha ha! I just wish I knew what she was thinking.

If Tuki is out of her cage, she will step up if she is standing on a flat surface and then when she's on my arm, I can talk to her but she always looks restless like she wants to get off incase she falls. She has bitten my arm recently which bruised it, but I don't think she actually meant to hurt me, she grabbed me for balance but it still really hurt! I tried not to show that it hurt as I knew she didn't mean it. She will never step up from inside her cage, she always seems aggressive around her cage. She also goes after my dogs if she's out and my little terrier has had a bad bite which drew blood (she did ask for it though!) If she's on the floor she will bite feet HARD! She has a foot biting fetish! Or she bites pieces out of the sofa which we can't seem to discourage her from doing. I need to clip her wings again as she now has full wings and can fly. I don't want to risk her escaping and also she enjoys going outside for a little while in the warm weather, however she hates it when I put her in an aviary and she will cling to the side of the wire until I take her indoors again! She's also scared of rooks if they fly over her but I thought she may thought it was a bird of prey. How is the best way to react if a Grey is aggressive towards you? I know you shouldn't shout at them but are you meant to ignore this behaviour because that doesn't seem to work either! I've tried so hard with her to play and things. She enjoys the game of throwing items off the worktop, then I pick them up and put them back, then she throws them off again! Well I think she enjoys it anyway, she could just be getting stroppy with me for putting it back! I do love her but it just feels like she hates me and it's upsetting.

I hope I can sort this problem out soon! I thought about lowering her perch so she wasn't so high up and then maybe the poo wouldn't shoot across the floor so much! She likes to be high up though, so that wouldn't be fair on her. She doesn't like coming out a lot unfortunately, so if I opened her cage door, she'd probably just sit in there and do it just as always! Yuk! Thanks for your replies.

:)Hello everybody! My name is Amber and I have a Congo African Grey called Tuki. She will be 4 in May. I always wanted a parrot ever since I can remember so I eventually bought a baby Grey! My grandad used to have a Grey and I loved her! Tuki was very friendly at first and would let anyone touch her including my daughters. Unfortunaely she doesn't like being touched anymore and doesn't seem to like women (this is why we think she's a female.) She will bite most people if they put their fingers in her cage and I've told my daughters to stay away from her. This isn't what I wanted. I wanted her to be a proper family pet that we could all interact with. I don't think she likes me because I clean her cage out and this makes her angry and try to bite me. She doesn't even really like coming out of her cage much anymore and it's sad. She makes us laugh with the things she comes out with though! She tells our dogs to go and do a wee because she hears me say it so much. I love having her around but I wish she was more friendly!

Yes she does have fruits and vegetables too and I have tried cutting these out for a few days to see if it made a difference but it didn't. It really does smell so bad that it stinks the downstairs of my house out for a while! Her poos throughout the day don't smell, so I don't think she has an illness or anything. I have a feeling she does it for fun, little bu**er!

{Feel-bad-0002006A} I have a problem with my 4 year old African Grey. She never used to do this, but recently she has a disgusting habit of when I uncover her in the mornings, she wiggles her bum and all the poo she has stored up over night, she propels forwards with such force that it shoots straight out through the front of the bars of her cage and across the room and it is runny and absolutely stinks of a repulsive eggy sour smell, it makes me feel ill. I can't deal with this everyday. Throughout the day, she does normal poos that land on the floor of her cage. In 1 bowl, I feed her Kaytee exact rainbow chunky, and in her other bowl she has tropimix 100% edible food. I tried to find the best foods for her as I want her to be healthy. Can anyone help me with why she might have started doing this? Please help, it's horrible!