Rebecca

Hi would just like to say thanks to every one for making us feel so welcome ! Tilly can step up onto the palm of your hand but she is quite wobbly, she has me petrified that she is going to fall off, she likes to climb but just walks of the end of what ever she's on, likes to sit on her cage door but fell off that last night, my hubby was next to her I was too scared to look, but then i sat on the floor saying oh you poor baby and she actually choose to walk to me and came up on my hand, i suppose at that particular time i was more worried about her hurting herself then nervous of her, so as i said i frightened shes going to brake something i dont want to let her out when i'm on her own, so shes learning that when hubby comes home she comes out, anyway i love her to bits and wouldnt change her for the world. Oh i did put a pic on of her chewing through her box and throwing everything out lol

Hello to everyone, I've been a african grey owner now for a whole 2 days ! Tilly is lovely 10 months old, very friendly to my husband, I've wanted a grey for 12 years, since my parents emergrated to cape town, and i finally have one and she turns her back to me and wont let me tickle her, but lets my husband and asks him for tickles I'm sure my problem is though that I am a bit nervous of her, my husband isnt at all. I need some advice of how to stop her pecking at me how do i respond to her? I am trying to be positive and not be nervous. Also she has no toes on one foot and last night fell off the settee, she sometimes loses her balance in her cage but nearly always catches on to something with her beak she is very strong willed but also carefull and gets about her cage very well, I have read that greys can be clumsy is this right? does she just need to feel safer in her new home and then she will be more steady? she doesnt appear to be scared of anything, (apart from the hoover lol) but she has me a nervous wreck as i'm worried she will break something, any advice on anything, i know i've asked a lot ! lol, would be greatly appricated. Thanks to all, Rebecca.