denzarki
Regular Member
I'm trying so hard with echo. But it's been a downward spiral for the past few weeks and I'm starting to lose my patience. I expected parrot ownership to be a challenge but I expected it to be a challenge with reward and we're not getting reward at the moment. We basically have a £400 noisy attack machine.
Id love to believe it's spring time blues but he's so aggressive I've got to question if he just decided he hates us. I've bought him tons of toys which he doesn't seem to pay any attention to, he's scared of everything we've found, even his top perch when we put it on his cage to hold the doors open. I don't know what conditions he was kept in before us but we're doing the best we can for him now and all we're getting in return is bad behaviour.
So let me explain a few of the behaviors we've had recently.
1/ standing next to his food bowl whining and switching and stretching his feet
I Googled this one, I saw this might be begging for food.. I've changed his food 3 times (went to 3 different shops) and I even picked out the things he doesn't like and he'll still do this alot. I haven't observed him eat today.
2/ screaming then running
If we leave the room he screams, this used to be only if he was out of his cage but now he does it inside. But if we come to him he runs away (gets in his cage)
3/ screaming in general
We can't solve it and it's getting worse. We've tried all sorts of things suggested on here. I also tried waiting for a silence to enter the room then treating the silence. Didn't work
4/ aggressive stances and biting
We've decided that we're going to let him decide when he's ready. So what we do, every now and then we'll go to him, hold our hand out for a scratch or step up and if he lowers his head or lifts his leg we continue but if he ducks or stands tall with his mouth open we leave him alone.
Sometimes he will not even give a warning he just straight up lunges for you. I've been bitten twice today this way, this morning almost drew blood yet 30 minutes later he started regurgitation next to me on the sofa, confusing. If he decides to attack without warning the cage gets closed and covered. We also do the same thing when he yells and runs. We want him to know if you misbehave you'll get time out. I know this might develop a behaviour that when he wants to be covered he'll do the behaviour but really I'm lost for how to deal with it at the moment.
5/ biting on step up
When stepping up echo bites. At first I recognised it as a stability thing and it didn't bother me, he was just using his mouth to balance himself on me. But recently he's been lunge biting on step up, this morning he broke the skin when he did it, I don't think it's stability anymore but I also don't know why he's doing it.
===
With all of the above we've halted any training, any bonding and I think we've both reached our limit. We've even discussed rehoming him.
My view on this is, give him 3 months, let the spring run its course then see if he calms down but I'm honestly struggling with him at the moment. Any and all support is appreciated but please don't tell me off I've tried everything lol
Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
Id love to believe it's spring time blues but he's so aggressive I've got to question if he just decided he hates us. I've bought him tons of toys which he doesn't seem to pay any attention to, he's scared of everything we've found, even his top perch when we put it on his cage to hold the doors open. I don't know what conditions he was kept in before us but we're doing the best we can for him now and all we're getting in return is bad behaviour.
So let me explain a few of the behaviors we've had recently.
1/ standing next to his food bowl whining and switching and stretching his feet
I Googled this one, I saw this might be begging for food.. I've changed his food 3 times (went to 3 different shops) and I even picked out the things he doesn't like and he'll still do this alot. I haven't observed him eat today.
2/ screaming then running
If we leave the room he screams, this used to be only if he was out of his cage but now he does it inside. But if we come to him he runs away (gets in his cage)
3/ screaming in general
We can't solve it and it's getting worse. We've tried all sorts of things suggested on here. I also tried waiting for a silence to enter the room then treating the silence. Didn't work
4/ aggressive stances and biting
We've decided that we're going to let him decide when he's ready. So what we do, every now and then we'll go to him, hold our hand out for a scratch or step up and if he lowers his head or lifts his leg we continue but if he ducks or stands tall with his mouth open we leave him alone.
Sometimes he will not even give a warning he just straight up lunges for you. I've been bitten twice today this way, this morning almost drew blood yet 30 minutes later he started regurgitation next to me on the sofa, confusing. If he decides to attack without warning the cage gets closed and covered. We also do the same thing when he yells and runs. We want him to know if you misbehave you'll get time out. I know this might develop a behaviour that when he wants to be covered he'll do the behaviour but really I'm lost for how to deal with it at the moment.
5/ biting on step up
When stepping up echo bites. At first I recognised it as a stability thing and it didn't bother me, he was just using his mouth to balance himself on me. But recently he's been lunge biting on step up, this morning he broke the skin when he did it, I don't think it's stability anymore but I also don't know why he's doing it.
===
With all of the above we've halted any training, any bonding and I think we've both reached our limit. We've even discussed rehoming him.
My view on this is, give him 3 months, let the spring run its course then see if he calms down but I'm honestly struggling with him at the moment. Any and all support is appreciated but please don't tell me off I've tried everything lol
Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk