Comments on: Does Your Parrot Love You?

By: Bonnie Hemmersbach

Bonnie Hemmersbach — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:45:03 +0000

I want to believe what you say. I allow for the natural behaviors and responses. I am educated on the temperment of a Yellow-naped Amazon. I hand-raised this male from the time his pin-feathers were emerging. He wasn’t my first parrot and he wasn’t my first Amazon. He probably has a record-breaking vocabulary, he sings and is quite the character. As a baby, he watched TV. I could call him to me from another room, and he slept with me in a basket in bed. Now, to try to handle him, he will bite-and bite viciously.
I know it is out of jealously-there are two other parrots and 5 dogs. Hey, it’s not like he hasn’t learned about the dogs! He calls them all by their names! And, he barks all their individual barks! (He can also say: “Are you ready for some football?”)
I don’t believe he is happy, yet I don’t know what to do. He has been raised on people food. Fresh, daily, the best vegetables, cooked rice, etc., (he also loves pizza) who else can I really trust to take over his care? Or how do I communicate to him he is still just as loved as ever, when he bites me to the bone?
The two other parrots: a Gallah (Rose-Breasted Cockatoo) and a Myers (which was a rescue). The dogs are all small dogs (rescues).

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:30:01 +0000

Hi Eva,
It sounds like Skeeter is excited. Since you mentioned the clicking beak, my guess is hormones.
Patty

By: Eva Knoche

Eva Knoche — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:06:54 +0000

hey i have a question about my bird (sunconure) skeeter when i have him in my lap or on my chest he will make this rapid sort of clicking noise and sometimes it loud or soft and he is puffed up and looks happ y his eyes are half open im wondering though is he really happy or annoyed or what and what does it mean when he is puffed up or when his feathers are straight and flat/ thankyou so much!!! ps havin fun reading the articles!!