my african grey

[macbrush]

Giving up in less than 30 days I say is premature. I heard stories about some greys take months to start really bonding, and some take years just to improve the relationship to a tolerated level.

[liz]

The grey has more thoughts going through it's little brain than you can ever imagine. It is watching you and picking up signals from you. Forget everything that happened and start from the beginning on tamming.

You have lost one month. The next month should bring it around.

Start the tamming as if you just got it.

[smithy101]

Myrtle got her leg caught in a hanging toy. By the time I ran to her she was in a panick. In an effort to get away from the toy she grabbed my finger and tore the skin loose from my knuckle. I finally had to cut the toy as close as I could to the flailing bird and let her go to deal with the rest on her own.

She got it off but did not speak to me or look at me for the rest of the day.

I have a hyperactive immune system. It only took a week to get the skin to grow back in place.

i wish this was just for a day, 4 weeks so far!

[donald1954]

Dont worry, it will work. Toto was parent raised when we got him, he was in panic when somebody entered the room, and the biggest problem, he fell twice very badly, one time so bad, that he would notmove. Screaming he was, all the time. We had to give him to the vet for a week, he was checked, and found to be ok. what I did was I put a bowl in the aviary, ( easy to reach from the outside, and easy for the bird to get near to). I called his Name and put a nut in there, a couple of times a day. Than I steped back, so far that he was relaxed ( first about 4 m), and I did not look at him.
After a week, he came running to the bowl, when he saw me, than he had to tip my finger, "Good Bird" and the Nut. I use my finger as a target stick, and when Toto was outside he understood very quickly what to do to get his piece of nut. Target training was easy then. To get him back in, easy too,
I put a nut in his bowl, and he flew straight to the aviary. LOL Have a go! A bit of patience and it will work. It took quite a while to get him to step up so, but now he ist the best and sweetest out of the lot!!!!

rgds Don