Sorry, I don't know where to post this topic but I need help with a problem.
I have an rose ringed parakeet / indian ringneck parrot. I think he hatched somewhere in the middle of May 2018. So he's about 8 months old. I've had him from first of July 2018.
My main problem with him is this clipping his nails. He doesn't like it one bit because of me and my mistakes.
He's my first parrot that I had for more than one month ( I had a cockatiel for 1 month last year but died of a virus that he got from the petshop ) .
Here's how things have been :
I've clipped his nails like 4 or 5 times in the last months. At first I was tricking him. I was placing him on his T stand and I was giving him his favourite fruit ( apple) to eat while I was underneath him clipping away at his nails. That worked 2 or 3 times. Then he refused to let me clip his nails. He would get the piece of apple and then fly away like crazy around the room.
Then I tried another rout, and that's by holding him. I asked my girlfriend to hold him while I was clipping his nails. He was held on his back in my gf's palm with some kind of fabric over his head. Something like a cut out bed sheet. Some fabric that was soft and thin. This worked until I acidentlly cut off one of his back nails too short and blood came out. I was kinda paniked because I felt bad "hurting" my parrot. He on the other hand was chill about it. He didn't care that his nail was bleeding, he was just enjoying some dried fruit that my gf gave him so he wouldn't notice the blood.
After that incident, he refuses to cooperate when he sees the clipping tool. When he sees it, he goes berserk. Flying around like crazy or if he's already in our palms, biting and shoving his sharp talons in our hands.
His nails haven't been clipped since, and it has been about 2 months. I don't want to get him to a vet either because outside is cold and freezing and I don't want to risk him getting sick. I waned to wait until the snow is gone and then get him to the vet to get a proper clipping.
It's not that I don't know how to clip nails. It was an accident because I didn't saw that the nail was already dull. I'm a Vet student and I work at a veterinary clinic. I clip nails all the time, of dogs and cats that is. So I know the tehnique.
The problem is that he won't cooperate anymore.
I tried letting it sit around in the same room as him and he, again, went berserk. He was biting and throwing the tool around.
How do I make him less scared of the clipping tool?
I have an rose ringed parakeet / indian ringneck parrot. I think he hatched somewhere in the middle of May 2018. So he's about 8 months old. I've had him from first of July 2018.
My main problem with him is this clipping his nails. He doesn't like it one bit because of me and my mistakes.
He's my first parrot that I had for more than one month ( I had a cockatiel for 1 month last year but died of a virus that he got from the petshop ) .
Here's how things have been :
I've clipped his nails like 4 or 5 times in the last months. At first I was tricking him. I was placing him on his T stand and I was giving him his favourite fruit ( apple) to eat while I was underneath him clipping away at his nails. That worked 2 or 3 times. Then he refused to let me clip his nails. He would get the piece of apple and then fly away like crazy around the room.
Then I tried another rout, and that's by holding him. I asked my girlfriend to hold him while I was clipping his nails. He was held on his back in my gf's palm with some kind of fabric over his head. Something like a cut out bed sheet. Some fabric that was soft and thin. This worked until I acidentlly cut off one of his back nails too short and blood came out. I was kinda paniked because I felt bad "hurting" my parrot. He on the other hand was chill about it. He didn't care that his nail was bleeding, he was just enjoying some dried fruit that my gf gave him so he wouldn't notice the blood.
After that incident, he refuses to cooperate when he sees the clipping tool. When he sees it, he goes berserk. Flying around like crazy or if he's already in our palms, biting and shoving his sharp talons in our hands.
His nails haven't been clipped since, and it has been about 2 months. I don't want to get him to a vet either because outside is cold and freezing and I don't want to risk him getting sick. I waned to wait until the snow is gone and then get him to the vet to get a proper clipping.
It's not that I don't know how to clip nails. It was an accident because I didn't saw that the nail was already dull. I'm a Vet student and I work at a veterinary clinic. I clip nails all the time, of dogs and cats that is. So I know the tehnique.
The problem is that he won't cooperate anymore.
I tried letting it sit around in the same room as him and he, again, went berserk. He was biting and throwing the tool around.
How do I make him less scared of the clipping tool?
