Of dear! I would never touch him if he was strutting! But when he wants to step up he'll lift a foot up. I trust that he'll be nice when he does this. Leto gets over his fits quicklyOnce Lurch trusted me and was mostly friendly I'd laugh at him when he was strutting on his cage trying to show what a rough tough motorcycle rider he was, it would just make him mad and display more I use to quickly ruffle his fluffy feathers too and he's usually make a half hearted lunge at me though a couple of times he did catch me and I paid the price for messing with himI figured when that happened it was my own fault