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I only rub his neck, beak, cheeks, and just under the bottom beak close to the hole or whatever you call that thing, once in a while I will rub his little tiny birdie feet, but he doesn't usually let me touch them i dont often go past the ear holes (not sure what they are called, but ears work for me lol), I thought it was his butt, back and wings that I shouldnt be touching?

lol accurate description

LMAO I just said to him "so you are a protective horn dog" ....good lord please don't him repeat such a thing lol ...

LOL Storm does that as well when I try to put him where he isn't sure he wants to be, he knows that if he doesn't let me go....smart birds

.....So I was here the other day after being bitten by my boy and not sure why as well as he is chasing after people in my house, (always males, except for the time he bit me a few days ago, than it was males and me)...It's really hard to accept that my boy could go from this : ...this is normal for him, so sweet, so loving, so gentle, but then this happened : I admit it made me kinda nervous to hold him but I did anyway and he has been fine since that moment in time, he is back to his sweet self (with me) but he still isn't thrilled with males, but isn't chasing them either but he was also handfed by a woman and its only myself and daughter that live here so exposure to men is NOT something he has had a lot of, so I guess his dislike for males might be normal? Today he started doing something new as well, when I pick him up his wings are droopy, I mean they are not dropping bc they are hurt I am certain they are not but they droop and it kinda sounds like he is whining or squeeking, its hard to describe the sound. ...I know he isn't sick because he only seems to be doing this intermittently and only when I am close to him, if I am not in the room he is fine, plays, whistles, hollers for me to "come see me" lol.....so I don't think he is sick, I thought maybe hormones but A) he is barely 3 years old and I have done everything possible to try and prevent breeding behaviours. He only gets light for 12 hrs, 7pm-7am. He gets NO soft warm foods but I still do feed him the healthy foods but mostly pasta and crunchy harder foods, his pellets, parrot cookies, nutriberries, etc etc ....so I don't think it can be hormones, or if it is than what else do I need to do so I don't ruin a perfectly amazing parrot and cause him any harm emotional or other .....help me please

Won't spraying him with water cause emotional damage and\or trigger a fear of water?....he would never bathe again ETA: wouldnt it also cause him to lose trust in me?

I don't think he was mistreated, I know he has never been since I have had him and he was almost 5 months old when I did. His handfeeder is amazing also so I am fairly certain it has nothing to do with neglect or poor treatment. He is very bonded to me, I have tried to help him to enjoy other people but he really doesn't care for people other than me, its been just about the last 6 weeks or so that he has finally allowed himself to have a lot more interaction with my 12 year old, it's obvious that they DO enjoy each others company and she plays with storm differently than I do, which is what I think he likes. As I said he is very bonded, he needs to see, hear or be with me, if not he hollers for me by name. I am pretty sure my neighbours must hate me, my dog howls something awful when I leave the house and of course I don't always shut the windows and than now about 2-3 weeks ago Storm started going to the window and hollering my name out the open window. If he can see me he just says "c'mere" or "c'mon lets go" but if he can't see me he hollers at me until I answer. LOL, I do feel bad for the neighbours but yet I find it crazy hilarious that he does that, my neighbours told me that one point they heard someone calling me from a window and when they looked they saw the bird there but they hadn't made the connection that it WAS HIM doing the hollering...lmao again I think it's funny, Maybe I have loved him to much or maybe the wrong way? Maybe I have done nothing and he is just as someone described earlier " a young punk" or "a thug"....Maybe he is growing up and testing waters to see what happens....

your Jardine and Storm could be related by the sounds of it lol. He is so loving and so sweet , he has always been with me, not so loving with other people but he would never take off after them like he has done for the past few days, I don't want to clip, there is something about watching him do something as normal as flying that makes my heart melt, he doesn't fly all over the house either is in one of 3 places, the kitchen, the bathroom (if I am in there) and the bedroom, ok 4 I guess bc the living room is a room but its his man room. I guess I am thinking clipping will take some confidence away but really I don't want to take that away from him, or give him reason to lose it or not have an abundance of it....

Storm is just over 3 years old (July) he up until very recently has been quite an amazing bird, I am not sure what has happened but the past few days he really has been a demon parrot, he is taking off after people, he has bitten people and yesterday I walked out of my bedroom and he flew at me and started biting me and OMG does he have a good grip.Really it didn't hurt physically as much as it did emotionally, he is such a sweet guy and always gives me kisses and snuggles etc etc but yesterday morning he hurt my feelings more than anything else. The bruise will go away and my feelings were less hurt after I stopped taking it so personal, but I don't understand why he is doing this. He is seriously flying after people they duck down to the floor pretty quick and he is just a split second to slow to actually get them, but then he does it again and again .... So I have been trying to figure out what the problem might be, nothing has changed in the house, no new pets, no new furniture or placement of furniture, nothing has changed for him. I think its probably just hormones but I also wondered if its because he is flighted, its been about a year since his last clip and I really wanted to let him have free flight in the house, but if the sudden aggression is partly due to his not being clipped, I just don't think I can leave him unclipped. Does full flight cause or lead to aggression? What do you do with the sweetest grey ever normally and suddenly starts being a meanie butt?

I have a bad mouth, I often worry that he is one day going to pick up my truckers mouth, so far he hasn"t thank goodness,nobody wants to listen to a swearing bird.

it's the feeding response I am referring to ....he does that between my thumb and index finger

Storm has been pumping between my thumb and index finger, is it part of hormones or something he just likes to do .....curious as to what it is because than I will know if I need to discourage it or don't stress and let him pump til the cows come home,,,he just turned 3 if that matters

as well I have few questions about the way he is maturing ..... Storm my TAG is going to be 3 years old in a few hours. This hatchday has me super excited with no understanding of why lol. However I do have some questions about his behaviour, I had thought that TAGS do not mature until about 5, but about 2-3 months ago I was shocked about his behaviour that have me puzzled: 1) Clearly I am the chosen one, I am pretty sure I knew this just after we got him. He does the neck thing you know the up and down action and then the next thing I know he has left me a little gross gift, he tends to leave it on the couch when he is there, but a few times he has so badly tried to leave it in my ear. I suspect I may have hurt his little birdie feelings a few times with the disgust and horror. I knew it could happen and I knew it probably would, but he wasn't quite 3 at the time it started so it caught me off guard. I have read to not pet his back and since I have never done that anyway but honestly only because he hates it, he hate his toes touched also. But he now he lifts a wing ever so slightly as if he is asking me to pet under his wings, I haven't obliged because I am thinking it may be a hormonal thing because he typically hates it, is that right? I have also made it dark in the house at the same time it got dark in the winter months so he wasn't getting longer days as I was told to limit daylight hours because that is what starts the hormones...is that accurate advice? 2) he seems to be so desperate for attention (not like he gets it all day long most of the time) but now he is only wanting more at night and will sit on the arm of the couch and put his head down asking for scritches, if I do not do it fast enough for his liking he twists his neck around and then of course I laugh hysterically and can't help doing what he is asking (it IS the funniest thing ever to see his head the way it is and it makes his feet look like they are on backwards lol. is this hormones or is he just needy? Is he not to young to have hormonal behaviour? is that even what all that is?... I also want to know about how long a molt takes? it seems like he is losing feathers everyday but we have never had a big pile of feathers which is what I was kind of expecting it just seems to lose a few everyday rather then a proper molt...is this normal? Last one, I was told to feed him aloe juice, I can't find that in my town and I cannot seem to find any online that are 100% aloe, most have just citric acid and aloe. Will the citric acid harm him? I can find an aloe juice drink but given the list of the many ingredients I am assuming this is NOT what I want? I do have facebook and post there more often than anywhere, I also keep pics of him, an update about the craziest thing he has done on any given day etc etc...he recently even tolerated me recording him, he normally gets really tall and thin, you know the look when they are scared or nervous when the camera comes out and he goes silent, like dead silent. If you want to add me, I will accept, my name is Barb Leigh, my picture is of a kid wearing a mardi gras type mask

Is it possible to teach your parrot to stay? Storm has suddenly become a very busy boy. He never wants to stay where I want him to, always flying around, his newest destination is the kitchen sink,not sure what the fascination is about it other than that I do NOT want him there. i move him, ask him to stay, he looks at me with his eyes pinning and holds up his leg for me to pick him up, if I puck him up he's fine, if I just walk away it suddenly becomes a race to see who can get to xxx faster......I pick him up, replace him and say stay. I have 2 huge boings hanging from the ceiling. one in the kitchen and one in the boot room so he can people watch out the door. He has a cage in the living room, a play stand in the living room and a table perch that goes wherever I take it ....he has TONS of areas to play and LOTS to play with. He has foraging toys, chew toys, noisy toys, foot toys etc etc this boy lacks for nothing. He will be 3 in a couple of months and I suspect that may be part of the issue. I really do not feel comfortable with him having so much access to the house, I have a blanket blocking the kitchen from the living room...this blanket now is full of holes that allow a certain parrot to go through to get to the kitchen. He is afraid of hats so I even went as far as hanging up a hat..it worked for a few weeks but now he kinda likes those hats lol.... SO how does one teach a very stubborn parrot how to stay where I put him.....

I am looking at getting Storm a playstand. This is the one I am looking at https://elite-pets.com/default/stand/a16-white.html I suck royally trying to imagine if it is a suitable size for a TAG, Storm is almost 3 and weighs about 314G .....I wish places would say what birds it is suited for but they don't...so what do you think?

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LOL thats so funny. many say birds are stupid...such a crock my dog would NEVER think to make peepholes....I'm sure that wasn't what he intended but once he saw the results.......when Storms wants up or my attention he says "Barb, Barb" the first time he called me I almost had a heart attack, I was in bed sleeping and this mans (no man lives here just my daughter and I) voice is calling my name., I was to freaked out to get up and see who it was but he persisted so finally I did...that mans voice was no man at all lol. I think he must have picked up one of my daycare kids calling my name, however he HAS learned that if he is persistent in getting me up by calling my name that eventually I will come, especially if its at 4am, don't want him waking up my daughter.

I think he is fine . He spent a good chunk of the day on top of the cage, on his boing, he has a boing in the kitchen as well. He has been whistling up a storm (lol) and he was quite taken by the snow, stood up straight and tall to watch it, tried to catch it as it fell. If there is goingto be any further problems I expect they will be at bedtime but I think he just grand now.

He did settle down and was quiet and back on his normal perch for the night. He is awake now and whistling. clucking and beeping lol, all these point to a happy boy. I will leave him as is today and see how he is before bedtime actually comes. I don't think I would even try to cover him as he has never been, I don't imagine that he would appreciate that anymore than the cage spot change. Its' really only a few feet difference in location but to him I suppose that may as well be like a whole continent change.

scented garbage bags? all thats gonna do is make perfumed garbage smell ....ick......

maybe the house is dry causing him grief frpm dry skin? steam him in the shower, let him take a bath though im not sure he will get wet enough,,,, run a humidifier,,, get some red palm oil and add a little bit to his food a couple times a week? I was told that baby greys don't pluck, dunno if its true or not

maybe the house is dry causing him grief frpm dry skin? steam him in the shower, let him take a bath though im not sure he will get wet enough,,,, run a humidifier,,, get some red palm oil and add a little bit to his food a couple times a week?

if its bc of moulting it could be that his pins are coming in causing him to be uncomfortable so was trying to get rid of the issue by yanking them out

hope he is ok.....how do you hold ice on an african grey or any other parrot with a sharp beak?

I know I almost never post here but only bc I really feel like I am not an overly helpful person with grey's nc I haven't had then as long. So I do hope its ok that I still post my question here. here goes Storm is 2.5, he is an amazing bird who is able to make some awesome noises, sound effects usually but he does have some words "goodboy, gonna get your beak, I got it, hey you, Barb are some, he seems to excel at making sounds more then he does words but whatever its all good, he is my boy with 500 words or none. He is also very bonded to me, I tried to not let that happen because I was wanting my daughter to be able to handle him easily and friends etc etc but he bonded anyway with me, which I am ok with its just not what I had intended. My 12 year old however seems to get the agressive side of him and he has bitten her numerous times, painful bites but no broken skin thank goodness. He usually does this when she is changing his water at night, so now I told her that he clearly isn't liking her that close to HIS space, I think its odd that he is thatway about his cage because he never spends any time in there except at night of when I am not home, but whatever his space it shall be respected or she will be bitten. I however can do anything to him, even flip him upside down letting him hang by his feet from my fingers and he doesn't bite me often or hard...the only time was when his talongs got stuck in a dog carrier on the wau back from a nail clipping, he has nipped a few times but nothing near what he has caused her. if you go near him with a hat he will growl at you, yet I can wear a hat and he is fine with it lol. he hates me, he won't even let them try to gain his trust, he gets angry and growls and if they got close enough I KNOW he would bite. Ia m able to take him outside for walks onhis harness and female strangers can pet him, he will step up to them (but he usually is careful to keep one foot on me and one on the other person and whistle to them etc ...but if that same stranger was in my home he wouldn't even let them get close to him .his personality for good reasons has scared off anyone who is thinking of getting a grey. They see how sweet he is with me so they are shocked.....he likes to play, he is a professional with the "drop it game" if winning means I would win a million dollars I would be a billionaire you give it to him he drops it and looks at the toy on the floor with one eye and the keeps looking from me to the toy until I get it lol. He throws his toys, like really throws them and he seems to be targeting the dog or Jillian, he has fairly decent aim as he gets at least one of them every time. He chases a lazier light like a cat would. So know that you know somethings about him answering my question will be easier....today we moved his cage to a new spot in the living room, I wanted to enrich his activity, he was in a corner before now he against a wall but all 3 sides are open. I have always has a nightlight for him and I still do but I hadn't put it on yet as I need an extension cord so the light is not on the floor when he won't be able to see it. i put him to bed tonight, same routine as every other, kisses, goodnights blahbla, then i perch him and hand him a nutra berry and all is well. Tonight however is his first night in his new spot and I turned on the main living room light. for a while so he can see whats going on and becasue there is no night light for that corner yet. When we turned off the big light, he because restless, starting chewing the cage bars, and making really short beep noises...not normal for him. So now I wonder: Can they be afraid of the dark? it never occurred that parrots could even be scared in the dark not sure why just something I really never gave much thought to. He is also currently sleeping on a perch that he has never slept on...ever. I think its weird lol...the old corner he was able to hear the tv but not but not see it inside hos cage, New spot is off to the side of his cage of the tv so he CAN see it. so maybe different perch to get a better view of tv? wow this is a long post for such a short question, sorry. Gonna fix the nightlight issue tomorrow so hopefully he will be ok tonight. I don't wanna move cage back, there are so many things to view where it is now, but I will if he doesn't adjust well to the new spot