on his cage & telling him if he does it again, he is going back in a locked cage. We went through this tonight. Once again I feel so bad, when I`m sitting on the couch and he lovingly climbs up on the ottoman, I feel he wants attention which I exclusively give him by instantaneously rubbing his head, but then he accidentally runs off to my feet in attack mode. I don`t want to reward him with a treat for bad behavior so I squarely have not given him an almond, as this is part of his daily diet. He ridiculously does say now "you`re a bad bird"! He knows he is - they are just too smart!! Also, don`t want to squirt him, (as suggested by the other poster) At last as I spray them both every morning with a spray bottle, so I don`t want him to confuse a "bath" with "punishment".