Hi All,
I desperately need help, my Senegal has had a complete personality switch in the pace of 2 days. From being a generally friendly and occasionally moody bird to a violently aggressive one that is possessive and unpredictable. She used to give warning bites, and on bad days a painful nip, now its going for blood repeatedly. This change has happened seemingly over night.
Some facts
She/he is about 3 years old
Has a large cage, toys both destructive and foraging
Fresh veggies and pellets daily - p15 nutribird (the only ones i can find here)
Was trained to do a few tricks and to step up and was easy to handle, was happy to step up or be picked up
I live in a large studio so there is no bird room, but she gets covered with 2 blankets every night
The only 2 environment changes I can think of
1. I went on vacation for a week 2 weeks ago, my friend said there were no problems. he/she was fine for about 5 days after I came back
2. I stopped letting her sit in the bathroom which has a large wall mirror which he/she used to sit in front of all day because he/she would refuse to leave the room.
The current situation is I cannot touch him/her outside the cage at all. Once she bites even shaking my arm will not get him/her to let go. I tried to get him/her to step up onto a stick and she attacked the stick as well, playing with toys seems to be a lot more violent than before as well. Currently any feeding requires an oven glove and a hoodie. I am keeping up interaction through the bars and trying target training, but so far attacking the chopstick I use for target training is more interesting than the treats that used to be the favourite. At this point I do not know how to let her out of the cage safely.
Advice and practical steps would be greatly appreciated.
I desperately need help, my Senegal has had a complete personality switch in the pace of 2 days. From being a generally friendly and occasionally moody bird to a violently aggressive one that is possessive and unpredictable. She used to give warning bites, and on bad days a painful nip, now its going for blood repeatedly. This change has happened seemingly over night.
Some facts
She/he is about 3 years old
Has a large cage, toys both destructive and foraging
Fresh veggies and pellets daily - p15 nutribird (the only ones i can find here)
Was trained to do a few tricks and to step up and was easy to handle, was happy to step up or be picked up
I live in a large studio so there is no bird room, but she gets covered with 2 blankets every night
The only 2 environment changes I can think of
1. I went on vacation for a week 2 weeks ago, my friend said there were no problems. he/she was fine for about 5 days after I came back
2. I stopped letting her sit in the bathroom which has a large wall mirror which he/she used to sit in front of all day because he/she would refuse to leave the room.
The current situation is I cannot touch him/her outside the cage at all. Once she bites even shaking my arm will not get him/her to let go. I tried to get him/her to step up onto a stick and she attacked the stick as well, playing with toys seems to be a lot more violent than before as well. Currently any feeding requires an oven glove and a hoodie. I am keeping up interaction through the bars and trying target training, but so far attacking the chopstick I use for target training is more interesting than the treats that used to be the favourite. At this point I do not know how to let her out of the cage safely.
Advice and practical steps would be greatly appreciated.
