amerrie

wanted to let ya'll know that I "caught" Taffy eating out of her dih today and there were shells and tidbits left behind. I have refused her anything from me what so ever since I first posted and got a response. So thanks to you all...I am positive that this is a bad habit we will be able to end soon!!

Thanks to all...I appreciate every ones little tidbits cause between all of us we can come up with some good answers!!

Wow it sounds like you have your hands full.. I guess ignoring bad behavior is difficult when there is so much bad and not much good, huh! Best of luck to you and hope that all will work out well.

Has anyone adopted a new bird and decided to change their name? Does it affect them in an adverse way? Just wondering cause I am considering it...

Thanks alot!!! I will try anything because I know the health of her and the sanity of our relationship counts on it. Could you imagine if I went away for a night or 2 and had to have her birdsitter actually feed her like this??? No...I think not!

always good to know these things and to have someone watching out for us!

I have read all the stuff on feeding and definately know about the bacteria issues. I literally mean she bombards me and shoves her beak in my mouth to try and get whatever I have. I had to pry her off of me several times. She has me concerned that her former owner, whom raised her from infancy possibly fed her this way, like a momma to a baby. I don't want this to be how she eats, truly I don't. I am only afraid that this is what she is used to...that's why I need the advice on how to break this habit. I don't want her to dehydrate or starve while trying to figure out she can't do this with me. BTW: previous owner was old lady who was alone and became very ill and was on death bed when family called rescue to get her. I can't know what happened in her previos life or how was fed or anything...shelter and I get along great and have calls back and forth all the time..I follow their and vets instructions as much as possible, she is just taking CONTROL of MY mouth or anyone else who has food!!!!

Wierd eating habit - 2009/08/27 22:46 HI!!! I'm the companion to a really cool African Grey named Taffy. She is 5 years old. I have only had her 3 days, for you see I have adopted her from a rescue. (I have had another Grey male that I adopted and ended up giving back to the rescue for he had been severly abused and was in need of intensive care and training I was unable to provide.) My question?? Curiosity is this....Taffy will only eat or drink if it is directly from my mouth. She has food and water in her cage, and has not touched it in 3 days. When I realized she wasn't kissing me but trying to get food from me I was interested. She drank for 1/2 hour straight. (The rescue had only had her 3 or 4 days when I adopted her and I wonder if she drank there at all?) I have tried hand feeding her, (she was a hand fed bird from birth), I've tried wetting some food and trying to get her to eat it, I finally got her to eat some melon by putting her at the dining room table with it in front of her. I can't eat or drink at all around her unless I plan on sharing! I find it odd that she only seems to know how to get food or water this way. As I said she refuses to even look at her seed type food, and I am wondering if someone has an idea of how to get Taffy to eat and drink normally? I told her today that she has baby bird syndrome and needed to learn to eat on her own for crying out loud, she laughed at me.:woohoo:

HI!!! I'm the companion to a really cool African Grey named Taffy. She is 5 years old. I have only had her 3 days, for you see I have adopted her from a rescue. (I have had another Grey male that I adopted and ended up giving back to the rescue for he had been severly abused and was in need of intensive care and training I was unable to provide.) My question?? Curiosity is this....Taffy will only eat or drink if it is directly from my mouth. She has food and water in her cage, and has not touched it in 3 days. When I realized she wasn't kissing me but trying to get food from me I was interested. She drank for 1/2 hour straight. (The rescue had only had her 3 or 4 days when I adopted her and I wonder if she drank there at all?) I have tried hand feeding her, (she was a hand fed bird from birth), I've tried wetting some food and trying to get her to eat it, I finally got her to eat some melon by putting her at the dining room table with it in front of her. I can't eat or drink at all around her unless I plan on sharing! I find it odd that she only seems to know how to get food or water this way. As I said she refuses to even look at her seed type food, and I am wondering if someone has an idea of how to get Taffy to eat and drink normally? I told her today that she has baby bird syndrome and needed to learn to eat on her own for crying out loud, she laughed at me.