Hello everyone,
Our White Face Pied cockatiel was always aggressive and never used to the hand, he just fly in the room and comes to our head or shoulder anytime he wants when not in cage and always bites hard when reaching with the hand, I tried for weeks but nothing stopped it.
Even when he is in cage he gets angry to rope and bites to rope by making weird angry hissing noises.
Recently for the past 4 months he got very vocal and it was impossible to stay at home even though when we release him out of the cage he either goes and bothers our guineapigs, or the dog or us OR just lands on a high place and starts screaming.
Honestly after today I really started hating him, i'm very instinctive when an animal attacks me to protect himself I understand that but when an animal starts to attack for being no threat at all I just got crazy and today that happened.
Note that, we never shouted him, yelled him, always spoke with him with a warm loving voice (my wife is really good at that too but even the damn bird hates him)
Anyways, yesterday we brought a new junior cockatiel that was hand-fed and used to being around humans and no biting issues at all. New tiel spent the night in another cage that our first tiel can see him and so they can get used to each other.
Today I released my first cockatiel from the cage and he directly flew to the other direction (guineapigs cage) and started annoying the guinea pigs, and then we released the other one and laid down some food so they can both fed from the ground (from the desk actually but you got the point) without having need to fight for food so that went well and they were nice for a couple of hours.
When it was evening today I just want to get the new tiel on my hand and as soon as the new bird comes to my hand the first one got completely crazy, started attacking me, flew and jumped on the new bird's back, bit me more than 30 times, created a real mess chasing the new bird in the sofa and basically bullied every single one of us in the house.
It was completely terrible because after five minutes of trying to keep him away and actually try to grap the new bird and put the new bird to the cage the first bird started directing his attacks to our eyes.
Thats when I got angry and I took him, grounded him in my hands and probably he bit the same spot over ten times.
I'm not sure what to do now, they both very chill right now but whenever I pass to first one's cage he hisses me and even bites the cage.
Our White Face Pied cockatiel was always aggressive and never used to the hand, he just fly in the room and comes to our head or shoulder anytime he wants when not in cage and always bites hard when reaching with the hand, I tried for weeks but nothing stopped it.
Even when he is in cage he gets angry to rope and bites to rope by making weird angry hissing noises.
Recently for the past 4 months he got very vocal and it was impossible to stay at home even though when we release him out of the cage he either goes and bothers our guineapigs, or the dog or us OR just lands on a high place and starts screaming.
Honestly after today I really started hating him, i'm very instinctive when an animal attacks me to protect himself I understand that but when an animal starts to attack for being no threat at all I just got crazy and today that happened.
Note that, we never shouted him, yelled him, always spoke with him with a warm loving voice (my wife is really good at that too but even the damn bird hates him)
Anyways, yesterday we brought a new junior cockatiel that was hand-fed and used to being around humans and no biting issues at all. New tiel spent the night in another cage that our first tiel can see him and so they can get used to each other.
Today I released my first cockatiel from the cage and he directly flew to the other direction (guineapigs cage) and started annoying the guinea pigs, and then we released the other one and laid down some food so they can both fed from the ground (from the desk actually but you got the point) without having need to fight for food so that went well and they were nice for a couple of hours.
When it was evening today I just want to get the new tiel on my hand and as soon as the new bird comes to my hand the first one got completely crazy, started attacking me, flew and jumped on the new bird's back, bit me more than 30 times, created a real mess chasing the new bird in the sofa and basically bullied every single one of us in the house.
It was completely terrible because after five minutes of trying to keep him away and actually try to grap the new bird and put the new bird to the cage the first bird started directing his attacks to our eyes.
Thats when I got angry and I took him, grounded him in my hands and probably he bit the same spot over ten times.
I'm not sure what to do now, they both very chill right now but whenever I pass to first one's cage he hisses me and even bites the cage.