I'm so confused, I hope I've done the right thing. I'm extremely mixed on having birds flighted. I believe they are meant to fly for happiness and exercise, yet you really risk losing them which happened to me many years ago. My gcc turned one yr. old this past march 1st. We let her become flighted and she got very good at flying. Since we've let her be flighted, we've developed problems with her. Once she began flying, the bird gym I made became a dust collector. She stopped playing with the toys on it, we became the toy, she'd fly to everyone's head and play with their hair. Then came more problems. She'd scream every time I went to the kitchen because she couldn't fly out to it and be with me. These past couple of days have been horrible, she has started screeching at the top of her little lungs every second she has to be confined to her cage. I don't allow her out when I'm baking, cooking and such for safety reasons. She thinks, If I scream, mom will let me out. My hubby did that which reinforced it. When I caught him doing that I told him to stop and ignore her. Ignoring her does NOT work. She can get quite loud. She acts extremely hormonal, has for awhile now. When she is on me, all she wants to do is raise her tail and rub her back side on me making soft noises. Come time to put her in her cage, she hides where she knows I can't reach her, she'll fly off. She out smarts me every time. When I try to get her to step up, she nails us with her beak as if to say, "I don't have to!" She has always had a pushy and bossy personality. She loves to bully my senegal. She'll take on any bird, no matter how big, she doesn't back off from another, she isn't afraid of anything. Finally, I made the decision to clip her wings today thinking it would help. She was so mad, she tried to bite me as hard as she could, she won't come to us at all, she'd rather bite us now. She's not the same bird since we let her be flighted. It's only made her even more bossy. She loves flying cage to cage to torment and fight with the others. She is soooo mad at me since I clipped her wings, she won't have anything to do with me. I had to pull out a towel to do it, and she bit me hard through the towel as well. Is it possible that a bird with such a pushy and bossy attitude should remain clipped for behavior purposes? I feel bad, I took her flighted freedom from her and she acts like it's the end of the world. I'm not sure if I did the right thing, I've never endured this problem before. thanks for any advice you can give me.