Comments on: Tips on How to Fit Your Parrots In With a Busy Schedule http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/tips-on-how-to-fit-your-parrots-in-with-a-busy-schedule/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Liz http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/tips-on-how-to-fit-your-parrots-in-with-a-busy-schedule/comment-page-1/#comment-12027 Liz Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:16:53 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=1819#comment-12027 wow that is a tough situation!! how is mac when he is just --around-- you. for example, i have a tall rolling tree stand that i keep in the kitchen for charlie for the evenings. the kitchen is a very social place in our house. that is where i fold the laundry, cook, do homework, etc. sometimes all she wants is to just at least SEE me. it has toys and feeders on it too. also, how is her entainment for when you are NOT there? i have noticed if i give charlie something different to play or even re-arrange her cage that morning before i leave for my day, when i return that evening she is alot less rowdy and vocal. like, it kept her busy and isn't so demanding when i return home. my conure has the same biting problem with me when my brother gets near to me. he HATES!!!! my brother. but there is definite help for that. Skittle responds best to my brother when taken out of his comfort zone & forced to be around unfamiliar things. birds don't like change and they don't like what they dont know. for instance, in a room full of strangers Skittle will actually step up for my brother--- because compared to the strangers, he trusts my brother. i have even heard of people literally taking their bird out of the home & into another home with the "unliked human" and they respond better. mac regards you as HIS. in my opinion, your husband and mac need to spend time together alone, without you around for them to develop a relationship. obviously mac and your husband have been around eachother for quite a while so it is not a change that would manifest over night.. i hoped this somewhat helped!! wow that is a tough situation!! how is mac when he is just –around– you. for example, i have a tall rolling tree stand that i keep in the kitchen for charlie for the evenings. the kitchen is a very social place in our house. that is where i fold the laundry, cook, do homework, etc. sometimes all she wants is to just at least SEE me. it has toys and feeders on it too.
also, how is her entainment for when you are NOT there? i have noticed if i give charlie something different to play or even re-arrange her cage that morning before i leave for my day, when i return that evening she is alot less rowdy and vocal. like, it kept her busy and isn’t so demanding when i return home.

my conure has the same biting problem with me when my brother gets near to me. he HATES!!!! my brother. but there is definite help for that. Skittle responds best to my brother when taken out of his comfort zone & forced to be around unfamiliar things. birds don’t like change and they don’t like what they dont know. for instance, in a room full of strangers Skittle will actually step up for my brother— because compared to the strangers, he trusts my brother. i have even heard of people literally taking their bird out of the home & into another home with the “unliked human” and they respond better. mac regards you as HIS. in my opinion, your husband and mac need to spend time together alone, without you around for them to develop a relationship. obviously mac and your husband have been around eachother for quite a while so it is not a change that would manifest over night..

i hoped this somewhat helped!!

]]> By: Tasha http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/tips-on-how-to-fit-your-parrots-in-with-a-busy-schedule/comment-page-1/#comment-12018 Tasha Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:08:45 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=1819#comment-12018 I would LOVE more advice on this subject. I am 25, recently married and on my own and living with 2 cats a dog a sugar glider and a 7 yr old blue and gold macaw Mac (who I think is a male). When I went back to school in '04 Mac started be mis-behave. I assumed it was just because of lack of time spent with me due to working full time and going to school full time. Thankfull I was living with my parents at the time and they were a great help with him spending time with him and helping with feedings and cleanings. Well 1.5 yrs ago they moved a way and it has just been me and my now husband with him and he does NOT like my husband. He is much like Roxanne with him. He will puff up and bite him any chance he gets and if he is on me and my husband gets to close he will bite me. This combined with my busy schedual makes it very difficult to spend anytime with him. Add on top of that his constent screaming and you have a very unhappy household. I do not want to have to get rid of him because he is my baby, I have hand raised him since he was 2 mo old and I love him to pieces but he is to the point now that if he is not covered in his cage or on me he screams and when he is on my he bites and often draws blood. PLEASE HELP!!! I would LOVE more advice on this subject. I am 25, recently married and on my own and living with 2 cats a dog a sugar glider and a 7 yr old blue and gold macaw Mac (who I think is a male). When I went back to school in ’04 Mac started be mis-behave. I assumed it was just because of lack of time spent with me due to working full time and going to school full time. Thankfull I was living with my parents at the time and they were a great help with him spending time with him and helping with feedings and cleanings. Well 1.5 yrs ago they moved a way and it has just been me and my now husband with him and he does NOT like my husband. He is much like Roxanne with him. He will puff up and bite him any chance he gets and if he is on me and my husband gets to close he will bite me. This combined with my busy schedual makes it very difficult to spend anytime with him. Add on top of that his constent screaming and you have a very unhappy household. I do not want to have to get rid of him because he is my baby, I have hand raised him since he was 2 mo old and I love him to pieces but he is to the point now that if he is not covered in his cage or on me he screams and when he is on my he bites and often draws blood. PLEASE HELP!!!

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