by meowingaround » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:17 am
Ok working with Windy on the cage issue. But I'm wondering how often I should give him the opportunity each day to step up or stay in his cage with the door closed?
Also what should I do if he bites me AFTER he comes out with step up? He did this today stepped right up and out happy as a clam, heard the other bird in the other room, and bit me.
Should I only punish in anyway when he draws blood? Or should I constantly be on him about nips too?
Should I put him back in his cage or force hold him gently with a glove? Today I did both, because in one way I don't want him to believe that if he bites me he won't have to do whatever it was I was asking him to do, so I picked him up firmly but gently in my gloved hand and held him that way till I got him back to his cage. I said NO BITE in my bestest firm voice and closed his door and left the room.
Also should I stay in the room or leave? I leave the tv on in there for him. He's singing right now.. awwww
I'm sorry so many questions I feel like an idiot
Sometimes I feel like all I do is punish him for being himself ..
“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.” Victor Hugo