maggiemoo123

Great news everyone, we are making great progress with rover he is talking a lot cant shut him up, he mimicks quite quick, he is eating out of our hands he also lets me put my hands in his cage now, he still gets a bit agressive but not as bad as he was. He will let me stroke his beak and the top of his head but thats all. We have got him on a parrot stand for 1 hour a day for the time being just so he can have a bit of freedom from his cage and to get used to us walking past him and being around him. We still have a few problems with him but we will deal with them as we go along he rips his food bowl off everytime we feed him throws it around his cage, he keeps pulling his water bowl off flooding his cage we are having to clean him out 6 times a day. He tends to scream when we are eating he goes crazy so i have to give him some of whatever we are having, he also goes mad with the telephone he hates it i dont know why. thats all for now.

THANKYOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR ADVICE I REALY APPRECIATE IT I WILL KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED ON MY PROGRESS WITH ROVER. I KNOW ITS GOING TO TAKE TIME I AM WILLING TO WAIT.

when i clean him out my boyfriend feeds him from the other side of the cage to distract him a little he seems to be ok with that. His name is rover, when i talk to him he chats back, i can stand infront of the cage and talk to him but he is very wary and sometimes attacks the bars of the cage to get to me i stand there and dont move an inch when he does this to show him im not scared of him when he does this. I love a challenge, i will not give up with him.I have tried to let him out but he doesnt want to come out i dont want to chase him out i would like him to come out on his own.

thankyou i will try them tips out and let you know how i get on. All i know about the bird is that he was coverd up constantly day and night for screaming, since we have had him he has been great no screaming he has been chatting a lot he whistles a lot, when we talk to him he does come to the bars but he wont let us put our hands near him he will take treats off us fine he doesnt snatch or anything. I dont know if he has ever been out of his cage so i dont know if he is better out then in. he is around nine years old.

we think he is about 9 years old.

I have had an african grey for approxomatly 2 weeks now,we can feed him,talk to him he will talk back, the problem we are having with him is, he wont let us put our hand in the cage to feed him as he goes for us, he wont let us touch him. If you go near his cage he attacks the bars to get to us. He wont come out of his cage we have tried to let him out but he isnt having any of it, i have a macaw we handle him so the african grey can see us he still isnt having any of it, is there any advice on how to calm him down. Or an easy way of taming him we have put him in a new cage with all new toys, perches and bowls,we have put him in the window near the other parrot.