Comments on: 3 Examples Of The Unexpected Parrot Bite And What You Can Do To Avoid It http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/why-do-birds-bite/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:33:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shellie http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/why-do-birds-bite/comment-page-1/#comment-15520 Shellie Mon, 10 May 2010 03:03:00 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=4217#comment-15520 Hi guys, 2 mcaws which are female. I let them sit on there eggs for 27 days knowing full well ...(female on female).hubby said, as well as I........after 27 days, get them out of room because they are really mean and whatever, no babies. No babies wanted here . I did that today and 1 of them bite half my right thumb finger nail backwards. BLOOD STEAMS. I have to clean their nice house so I bled all over the place and then the other one bite me on my toe. We have had them for over 13 years and now they are laying eggs. Shellie me as well as hubby (still love the macaws, still bleeding from my bites) We put them in their 15 hundred dollar cage, which we never, ever use, only to clean thier home. Our cats are really cool with them. Parrots are so mean, cool..survivalI hope you guys are vegs heads as my hubby and I are. Please send an email to sjkrocky@q.com Shallie Hi guys,

2 mcaws which are female. I let them sit on there eggs for 27 days knowing full well …(female on female).hubby said, as well as I……..after 27 days, get them out of room because they are really mean and whatever, no babies. No babies wanted here
. I did that today and 1 of them bite half my right thumb finger nail backwards. BLOOD STEAMS. I have to clean their nice house so I bled all over the place and then the other one bite me on my toe. We have had them for over 13 years and now they are laying eggs.

Shellie me as well as hubby (still love the macaws, still bleeding from my bites) We put them in their 15 hundred dollar cage, which we never, ever use, only to clean thier home. Our cats are really cool with them. Parrots are so mean, cool..survivalI hope you guys are vegs heads as my hubby and I are.

Please send an email to sjkrocky@q.com
Shallie

]]> By: Tom Stickel http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/why-do-birds-bite/comment-page-1/#comment-14844 Tom Stickel Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:48 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=4217#comment-14844 I've had my 19 year old macaw for 2 weeks now. he loves my wife and if he gets to hop up on her arm, its hard to get him down. when he offers to get up on my arm, i let him, but usually within 2 minutes, he ends the occassion by biting the crap out of me. He is so funny and irresistable when he shakes his head up and down with one foot stuck up and hollering "hello" when he asks me to let him up on my arm. I just don't trust him anymore because he nails me everytime shortly after he gets on. I just put him back on his perch and give him a ugly look and calmly say "bad bird" and walk away for 30 minutes. what else can i do? i'm running out of skin. Tom I’ve had my 19 year old macaw for 2 weeks now. he loves my wife and if he gets to hop up on her arm, its hard to get him down. when he offers to get up on my arm, i let him, but usually within 2 minutes, he ends the occassion by biting the crap out of me. He is so funny and irresistable when he shakes his head up and down with one foot stuck up and hollering “hello” when he asks me to let him up on my arm. I just don’t trust him anymore because he nails me everytime shortly after he gets on.

I just put him back on his perch and give him a ugly look and calmly say “bad bird” and walk away for 30 minutes. what else can i do? i’m running out of skin.
Tom

]]> By: Patty http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/why-do-birds-bite/comment-page-1/#comment-14787 Patty Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:37:29 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=4217#comment-14787 Hi Bess, I completely understand what you are saying. Cockatoos are notoriously hard to read. I have a large, strange cockatoo of my own. Understand that when I say it is always the human who is at fault, that I realize that things happen unintentionally (in most cases). My take on this subject is that WE have brought them from their world into ours without the full knowledge of why birds do things in the ways that they do. We will never fully understand them simply because we aren't birds and don't see and hear the world in the same ways. This is hardly a character flaw. However, it is most definitely not the fault of the bird that bites responding to something that goes unseen by us. So, if blame needs to be assigned, it has to go to the human because of our ignorance of the ways of birds. We will never completely get it, and it is very frustrating sometimes. In the case with Bilbo, I have a thought: Since he took the time and trouble to fly all the way over to you to bite, given that he had your husband right there for the taking, one would have to assume that his problem was with your or what you were doing. Myself and two other people I know with large cockatoos have experienced a problem with reading or working on the computer around them. We have all been bitten while reading in their presence. I know it sounds odd, but we all think there's something to it. I know I get very immersed in a book or in writing, and my energy level probably changes, not to mention that my attention is no longer entirely on him, the king of the universe. In your case, you were also paying attention to the TV. Perhaps yours has that same peculiarity. Cockatoos are weird. Period. Mine has enough odd behavior to cover his entire species. I hope you heal soon and get to the root of the problem. Patty Hi Bess,
I completely understand what you are saying. Cockatoos are notoriously hard to read. I have a large, strange cockatoo of my own. Understand that when I say it is always the human who is at fault, that I realize that things happen unintentionally (in most cases). My take on this subject is that WE have brought them from their world into ours without the full knowledge of why birds do things in the ways that they do. We will never fully understand them simply because we aren’t birds and don’t see and hear the world in the same ways. This is hardly a character flaw. However, it is most definitely not the fault of the bird that bites responding to something that goes unseen by us. So, if blame needs to be assigned, it has to go to the human because of our ignorance of the ways of birds. We will never completely get it, and it is very frustrating sometimes.
In the case with Bilbo, I have a thought: Since he took the time and trouble to fly all the way over to you to bite, given that he had your husband right there for the taking, one would have to assume that his problem was with your or what you were doing. Myself and two other people I know with large cockatoos have experienced a problem with reading or working on the computer around them. We have all been bitten while reading in their presence. I know it sounds odd, but we all think there’s something to it. I know I get very immersed in a book or in writing, and my energy level probably changes, not to mention that my attention is no longer entirely on him, the king of the universe. In your case, you were also paying attention to the TV. Perhaps yours has that same peculiarity.
Cockatoos are weird. Period. Mine has enough odd behavior to cover his entire species. I hope you heal soon and get to the root of the problem.
Patty

]]>