Aikofurr
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So we've had our lovie for a couple months now, he/she is 1 year old now.
So he/she is never one to bite. Even when picking up or doing very stressful things he/she would never bite or act aggressive.
He/she is getting more tame. He/she will happily come onto your finger and allow with hesitation for you to touch him/her when you have treats and he shows much less fear and hesitation with this.
Recently though, if he/she flies up to you (for example if he/she flies onto your phone or computer) he/she will proceed to constantly go to attack your fingers, it doesn't break skin but it can be quite nasty, and it feels really strange as he/she isn't one to bite as is and there's no threat as he/she was the one to initiate it completley.
Same applies if you just go to put your fingers near him/her, he/she will just go to nip you quite madly.
I'm just wondering the best way to train out this behaviour as you can't exactly get a bird to go back in its cage very easily or give them some sort of punishment. The only way to get him/her in his/her cage is with bird sounds but he/she could just choose to ignore this or with treats but that is the complete opposite of what I want to give him/her.
Any advice? At the moment when he/she does it I generally just point my finger at him/her and scold him/her, and if he/she carries on force him/her to fly away from me and not allow him/her back on the computer. Is there a better way to do this??
Thanks for all the help,
a stressed new bird mum
So he/she is never one to bite. Even when picking up or doing very stressful things he/she would never bite or act aggressive.
He/she is getting more tame. He/she will happily come onto your finger and allow with hesitation for you to touch him/her when you have treats and he shows much less fear and hesitation with this.
Recently though, if he/she flies up to you (for example if he/she flies onto your phone or computer) he/she will proceed to constantly go to attack your fingers, it doesn't break skin but it can be quite nasty, and it feels really strange as he/she isn't one to bite as is and there's no threat as he/she was the one to initiate it completley.
Same applies if you just go to put your fingers near him/her, he/she will just go to nip you quite madly.
I'm just wondering the best way to train out this behaviour as you can't exactly get a bird to go back in its cage very easily or give them some sort of punishment. The only way to get him/her in his/her cage is with bird sounds but he/she could just choose to ignore this or with treats but that is the complete opposite of what I want to give him/her.
Any advice? At the moment when he/she does it I generally just point my finger at him/her and scold him/her, and if he/she carries on force him/her to fly away from me and not allow him/her back on the computer. Is there a better way to do this??
Thanks for all the help,
a stressed new bird mum