Multiple Personality Bird -please help

[caleigha]

My CAG can be so sweet and I am head over heels in love with him, but he did something to me today that has second guessing everything.

 

He will be 2 in March, so perhaps his age is a factor, but lately he has turned into a brat. When he doesn't get his way he bites, and he bites hard. And he attacks.

 

It started today when he flew down to the kitchen table and grabbed a pencil. I took it away from him and he didn't like that so bit me really hard. He flew to his perch then he literally attacked me - he flew at my face and just attacked me. I put my hand up to defend my face and pushed him away. He flew back to his perch. After I calmed down, I talked to him in a calm voice and told him that he can't act that way and there is no biting. I put my hand for him to step up, and he bit me really hard again. I had to call one of my sons into the room to take him back to his cage. Now he is in his cage and happily talking although he is saying, "No biting. You bite, you go back."

 

This is not the first time he has attacked me when he doesn't get his way, and he has also attacked my 8-year-old son for no reason. It left my little guy in tears because it really hurt his feelings, although he wasn't physically hurt. He has attacked my husband as well.

 

But at other times he is just so sweet and lovable. He's a great talker, and makes us laugh all the time. He's a character, but then he's also a really naughty bird. I really don't know what to do, what to think, or how to feel. I am doubting my ability to raise him, because clearly I am doing something wrong, but all I do is love him. He has a giant cage with tons of toys that he enjoys, he has a perch in the kitchen with even more toys that he enjoys. He certainly isn't bored,and he's fully flighted.

 

I love my bird, but I'm not sure I like him. Doesn't that sound horrible? Any advice?

[judygram]

Welcome to the world of parrots. The honeymoon is over.

 

As Dave so eloquently put in the above quote yes your baby is turning into a brat. Please read thru the thread I am providing a link to, we hear this story over and over again.

 

http://www.greyforums.net/forums/showthread.php?191841-Close-to-Murdering-My-Bird

 

Your baby is just growing up and becoming more independent, he wants to make decisions for himself and he has found he can stir up some mischief, its all in the day and life of living with a wild animal. As you can see from his behavior at other times he is still his sweet self most of the time so all I can tell you is to accept him as he is for he is just being a bird.