Inheavenlygrass
Walking the driveway
Hello all! Since Kiwi and I are staying with my family for Christmas this seemed like a good time to ask about this. So. Kiwi likes heads, loves them in fact. The problem is that she will fly to people's heads regardless of whether or not they want her to, or are in fact terrified of her. If they duck or wave their hands around to shoo her away she'll just circle around and try again until I chase her down and towel her to get her to stop (seriously, it's the only way to stop her, she won't come back to me or land anywhere else, she just keeps dive bombing the chosen head ) Now, this isn't an aggressive behavior, if the person stays still and lets her land she'll happily sit there and preen them and maybe climb down to their shoulder to preen them some more. She's not trying to drive them away or attack them, she just can't figure out why they don't want to be friends. This is a big problem with people who I'm trying to convince that she is in fact very sweet and not winged death. (like the majority of my family) It's hard to tell them that she's trying to be friendly when she won't stop flying at their head in what I imagine is a terrifying manner. Even people who like her can get annoyed with her climbing all over them since she refuses to go back to me when other people are over. Does anyone have any suggestions or training ideas? I'd like to be able to let her out of the cage when people are over because she loooooves people but I can't if she's going to harass everyone.