VelocirapGirl
Sitting on the front steps
- Joined
- 8/5/18
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- Real Name
- Monique
So some might know I have a lovebird. Now, he is still scared of hands.
Grab a snack since it'll be a long post.
So when I first got him I made the mistake of putting my hands in the cage the very first day when I should've left him alone to settle. The next day I got his wings clipped because they were fully grown out and when I got home I took him out of his cage to run around my house and of course that was a mistake too. so I didn't do that any more but I kept putting my hands in his cage for a few minutes a few times every day and eventually i started hand feeding millet, but not exactly. I took an entire thing of millet and held it in the middle. He would eat it from my hand like that but ate it against the side of his cage on his sleeping perch. eventually he did it on his usual perch, and hen I started ripping a single piece off of the millet and he ran a little at first but i stayed patient. Not long and he didn't even move when my hand was in the cage like cleaning his cage or changing his food, however if I went at him he would move away and squeak a little. then he let me touch him a few times when he was very sleepy and not really aware of what was going on. when I gave him millet he stayed completely still and ate it, me holding onto the tiny thin thing at the end of the piece. then I started using a broken drum stick (for drums) to have him step onto it. It was irritating since the drum stick was pretty big and my cage isn't huge. so he got on it and ate the millet, and sometimes got on himself. I stopped since I didn't really see a point for the stick since i already had a small trust bond with my bean and I could've just went from giving millet to giving millet with a finger in front. He was a little scared since he didn't like hands so he was reaching for the millet but then shimmied away. i would've kept doing this but I was being very silly and just kept giving him millet because I couldn't push myself to stress him out even the tiniest of bits. My dad and I went back to the store to tell the staff our problem, and they said we just had to get him out of the cage and into the bathroom so he learns he couldn't fly and that we wouldn't do anything to him with our hands. Now I didn't really want to do this but plan A hadn't worked and this was our only plan B so my dad ended up having to catch him while he tried to get away in his cage and carried him to the bathroom and did what the staff said. we did this twice that day. the next day again. (We also did this because his wings had to be clipped soon and it would be better if he was tame when he got them clipped.) The next day 3 times. and now it's today. I feel like e lost my dad's and my trust because I was gonna unlock his cage and he already was shimmying away so I didn't even open t and just locked it again. i think he's mad at us because he won't eat millet from our hands any more. I think it's too late to turn back now, but should I continue or is there a way to save it? I feel really bad for my poor little bean but it's not working. is he cage bound? he's not territorial of his cage but he runs away from people like he doesn't want to come out. Will he learn to step on my finger and come out when he wants to or?
Grab a snack since it'll be a long post.
So when I first got him I made the mistake of putting my hands in the cage the very first day when I should've left him alone to settle. The next day I got his wings clipped because they were fully grown out and when I got home I took him out of his cage to run around my house and of course that was a mistake too. so I didn't do that any more but I kept putting my hands in his cage for a few minutes a few times every day and eventually i started hand feeding millet, but not exactly. I took an entire thing of millet and held it in the middle. He would eat it from my hand like that but ate it against the side of his cage on his sleeping perch. eventually he did it on his usual perch, and hen I started ripping a single piece off of the millet and he ran a little at first but i stayed patient. Not long and he didn't even move when my hand was in the cage like cleaning his cage or changing his food, however if I went at him he would move away and squeak a little. then he let me touch him a few times when he was very sleepy and not really aware of what was going on. when I gave him millet he stayed completely still and ate it, me holding onto the tiny thin thing at the end of the piece. then I started using a broken drum stick (for drums) to have him step onto it. It was irritating since the drum stick was pretty big and my cage isn't huge. so he got on it and ate the millet, and sometimes got on himself. I stopped since I didn't really see a point for the stick since i already had a small trust bond with my bean and I could've just went from giving millet to giving millet with a finger in front. He was a little scared since he didn't like hands so he was reaching for the millet but then shimmied away. i would've kept doing this but I was being very silly and just kept giving him millet because I couldn't push myself to stress him out even the tiniest of bits. My dad and I went back to the store to tell the staff our problem, and they said we just had to get him out of the cage and into the bathroom so he learns he couldn't fly and that we wouldn't do anything to him with our hands. Now I didn't really want to do this but plan A hadn't worked and this was our only plan B so my dad ended up having to catch him while he tried to get away in his cage and carried him to the bathroom and did what the staff said. we did this twice that day. the next day again. (We also did this because his wings had to be clipped soon and it would be better if he was tame when he got them clipped.) The next day 3 times. and now it's today. I feel like e lost my dad's and my trust because I was gonna unlock his cage and he already was shimmying away so I didn't even open t and just locked it again. i think he's mad at us because he won't eat millet from our hands any more. I think it's too late to turn back now, but should I continue or is there a way to save it? I feel really bad for my poor little bean but it's not working. is he cage bound? he's not territorial of his cage but he runs away from people like he doesn't want to come out. Will he learn to step on my finger and come out when he wants to or?