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Hello everyone!
It’s now been 5 days that we have T-Rex and I have a few questions as to how we should proceed with him
So far, he doesn’t really want to step up but is not afraid of fingers and hands and let us scritch him on the neck (gets all fluffy and seems to really enjoy it). He will more willingly step up on a branch though. His cage is in our home office and his java tree stand is in the living room (where we usually eat on the couch) so so far, we have been moving him from the cage to the java tree whenever we are in the living room relaxing or eating. He seems rather comfortable on the perch and in the cage (though he is terribly clumsy still, it’s so funny ).
We have started to train him to step up on our hands by holding a bird cracker and putting the hand we want him to step onto between him and the cracker and saying “up”. He is getting less and less hesitant to do it and whenever he does step up we congratulate him profusely. Do you guys think this is the right way to go about it?
Also, whenever we are in the office, we leave his cage door opened but so far, he has not stepped out of his cage by himself. I’m not even sure he understands that he can get out. What can we do to encourage him to go out of the cage to go play on the playtop, fly to us or around the room? Will it come in time?
Another thing is when he’s on his perch, sometimes he starts to fly around the living room: he doesn’t seem startled just seems to want to explore a bit which is cool. However, he has a lot of trouble with his landings and half the time, instead of landing on something he can actually perch on, he will fall on the floor. Is this normal and is there something we can do to help him learn how to land better after flying?
And a last question (sorry for the wall of text! ) He seems to be eating most of the time we are with him (like hours at a time), is this normal? The breeder said to never limit how much pellets his eats so he has always access to them both in his cage and on his java tree stand but it surprises me how often he will eat.
I should also say that so far, T-Rex has been incredibly silent, only chirping and chattering a bit and he has not bitten anyone yet We really like the little guy!
Thanks a lot for reading this and for any answer you guys might have for me!
It’s now been 5 days that we have T-Rex and I have a few questions as to how we should proceed with him
So far, he doesn’t really want to step up but is not afraid of fingers and hands and let us scritch him on the neck (gets all fluffy and seems to really enjoy it). He will more willingly step up on a branch though. His cage is in our home office and his java tree stand is in the living room (where we usually eat on the couch) so so far, we have been moving him from the cage to the java tree whenever we are in the living room relaxing or eating. He seems rather comfortable on the perch and in the cage (though he is terribly clumsy still, it’s so funny ).
We have started to train him to step up on our hands by holding a bird cracker and putting the hand we want him to step onto between him and the cracker and saying “up”. He is getting less and less hesitant to do it and whenever he does step up we congratulate him profusely. Do you guys think this is the right way to go about it?
Also, whenever we are in the office, we leave his cage door opened but so far, he has not stepped out of his cage by himself. I’m not even sure he understands that he can get out. What can we do to encourage him to go out of the cage to go play on the playtop, fly to us or around the room? Will it come in time?
Another thing is when he’s on his perch, sometimes he starts to fly around the living room: he doesn’t seem startled just seems to want to explore a bit which is cool. However, he has a lot of trouble with his landings and half the time, instead of landing on something he can actually perch on, he will fall on the floor. Is this normal and is there something we can do to help him learn how to land better after flying?
And a last question (sorry for the wall of text! ) He seems to be eating most of the time we are with him (like hours at a time), is this normal? The breeder said to never limit how much pellets his eats so he has always access to them both in his cage and on his java tree stand but it surprises me how often he will eat.
I should also say that so far, T-Rex has been incredibly silent, only chirping and chattering a bit and he has not bitten anyone yet We really like the little guy!
Thanks a lot for reading this and for any answer you guys might have for me!