Anti social parrot

[Chantilly]

Ok, so i have noticed how antisocial Tilly is. She is fine with me, and the rest of the family, but with my Nana & Auntie... well, she wants to rip them to pieces!
She is fine with most males, and with my other Nana&Pop, but with quite a few females she is very aggresive. When the Nana she didnt like was here, she would fly to her and bite her on the neck really hard... mabye she can tell that she was a cat lover .
We didnt let her out while my Auntie was here, but when she went to the cage Tilly was very snappy.
Is this her way of 'protecting' herself or her flock? or is she just very anti social? or jealous that she wasnt getting much attention at the time of visitors?
And seeing as family probably wont be up till this next Xmas, and she wont let me put on her harness, if i should be training this behaviour out of her, how?
Thanks guys

[liz]

I wrote you a long post then it disappeared. I am technology impaired. Squeezing it to a short post in hopes of getting it through: I think she is cage protective and defending her cage from people other than her small family. She considers your whole house her cage.

[liz]

I wrote you a long post then it disappeared. I am technology impaired. Squeezing it to a short post in hopes of getting it through: I think she is cage protective and defending her cage from people other than her small family. She considers your whole house her cage.

See I told you I was technology impaired. Sorry about the double post.

[Pajarita]

Parrots react to personal chemistry just the way people do. They like some people, they tolerate others, they ignore some and some they hate on sight. It's the way they are. I don't know what the difference is... could be some people stare at them the wrong way, that their voices get on their nerves, that they identify some as 'neutral' while some others as 'competition' or 'danger'... I don't really know but it happens.

[Chantilly]

Thankyou Liz and Pajarita

I wrote you a long post then it disappeared. I am technology impaired. Squeezing it to a short post in hopes of getting it through: I think she is cage protective and defending her cage from people other than her small family. She considers your whole house her cage.

Aww, it is really annoying when they delete themselves or: it decides when you submit you are not logged in!
That is kind of cute

Parrots react to personal chemistry just the way people do. They like some people, they tolerate others, they ignore some and some they hate on sight. It's the way they are. I don't know what the difference is... could be some people stare at them the wrong way, that their voices get on their nerves, that they identify some as 'neutral' while some others as 'competition' or 'danger'... I don't really know but it happens.

So they sort of steriotype people?, thankyou, because this was getting under my skin, and i was thinking that not taking her out and about was a mistake. Also, i think if i was to take her out in public, it would be way stressful for her.
Thanks

[liz]

I don't take mine in public. There are just too many germs out there. Even when I take them to the vet I sit in a far corner away from everyone.

[Pajarita]

So they sort of steriotype people?, thankyou, because this was getting under my skin, and i was thinking that not taking her out and about was a mistake. Also, i think if i was to take her out in public, it would be way stressful for her.
Thanks

I don't think it's so much profiling or stereotyping but a combination of different things like instinct (like they would dislike a stranger that stares at them close up), imprinting (whether the breeder was a man or a woman), previous experiences (my birds that used to belong to kind men always prefer my husband to me) and just plain old chemistry.

I only take my birds out of my house to go to the vet. I believe that although they all end up getting used to going to strange places with strange people, the process of becoming used to this is stressful in itself and I ALWAYS avoid any unnecessary stress for them.

[seagoatdeb]

If you got your parrot as a baby, then they almost always always love going out. if the owner before you took them out they are used to it too. I have only had one parrot that was afraid of going out and he is now happy to go. I would not want to stress out my parrots either so it is important to know how your parrot reacts and make sure the outing is fun and interesting to them. Mine get excited everytime I put on shoes, becase they think they might be comming. I take my parrots outside in the summer so they can experience the outside air and the sun.

[Chantilly]

Thanks guys

[Wolf]

I can't really tell you why Tilly does not like her, only that Tilly is trying to tell her to leave. I would say that she can smell the persons body odors, but apparently bird can't smell to well. Still they can pick up on some amazing things such as the approach of stormy weather, sometimes days before out weather sciences know that it is coming, the same thing with earthquakes. Science thinks that these two things are due to their hearing. But although I don't think it is due to either smell or hearing, It could be sight related, in that if the lighting is good enough, they might see things that we can't because they see into ultraviolet ranges of light which are invisible to us. Or it could simply be plain old body language that the bird is picking up on. Birds are experts at reading body language. They are so good at it that it verges on being arcane.