very naughty babe parot

[teres]

may I ask you for your opinion how to handle very young and very naughty African grey parrot. He is not even 3mths old so we don’t know if we should leave him to play or keep training.

We brought our parrot in age of 2 months. First few days he was very good, immediately caught targeting and done few step-ups. For a sunflower seed he would run over the room, he loves to be pet.

After a week he started be very naughty. No targeting, no interest for seeds, he is trying to fear us, even bite (but not to hard), don't want to be on tree, love to bite a sofa and trying to fear things on sofa. He looks like he loves to play redoubtable, he does it in cage as well, trying to fear his toys. I can see that it amuse him to do just opposite than we try to train him to do

I am a bit afraid to take out food from cage, in his young age he needs nutrients to grown up but don’t want to strength this awful behavior.

May I ask you for your opinion? Should we let him to play naughty parrot for this growing up period? Should we take the food out and try to practice?

THX a lot for kind advice
Tereza

BTW: he loves to be pet, touched, scratched... any attempt to do step-up ends with that he immediately tries to clime up to my shoulder and than asks to be pet

[Michael]

Sounds like you're in way over your head.

[sidech]

Michael is right, unfortunately.

First, your baby was waayyyy too young to be bought, and far from being weaned. He is still too young to be weaned at 3 months. Greys in the wild wean sometimes past 5 months.

So, knowing that, would you please treat him just like the baby he is ? No more training for at least 3 months, and start reading up on how to take care of unweaned baby parrots. Your baby needs care for now. Go buy some soft baby foods, and serve it to him warm in a deep spoon. Abundance weaning is really important for such a complex parrot as the Grey. You need to learn about it, and fast.

Get yourself a mentor, someone who will teach you the ropes, because I guarantee you down the line, you will have very serious behavioral problems on your hands.

You don't buy a baby Grey like you buy a pair of shoes... Or even a cat !

[cml]

The above post by dorp should result in a ban.

People that dont know better may find his reply which may ultimately lead to a parrot's death. Dorp doesnt do this because he is less informed, he does it because he wants to piss people off. In his previous posts he's been trolling for attention, but his last foray on these boards is taking it a step to far.

At the very least the post above should be deleted and dorp recieve a warning.

[marie83]

The above post by dorp should result in a ban.

People that dont know better may find his reply which may ultimately lead to a parrot's death. Dorp doesnt do this because he is less informed, he does it because he wants to piss people off. In his previous posts he's been trolling for attention, but his last foray on these boards is taking it a step to far.

At the very least the post above should be deleted and dorp recieve a warning.

Agree with all this, post needs removing at the very least but having seen previous post by Dorp I feel this is a step too far.

[cml]

please excuse my previous post, below is a more parrot person friendly version

You really dont get it, do you?
That picture is even worse, people that dont have english as their first language, or even people who do, might be browsing around google, and there your reply is, saying that its okay with chocolate. Despite that the internet is full with information on how bad chocolate is for birds, someone unlucky enough might just read your reply and think, hey its fine.

I couldnt care less about either you or your personal parrot problems, but you are a disgrace to this forum and are spreading misinformation. I really wish that you would leave on your own, but you seem hell bent on staying here to troll and look for attention. If you really must stay, and the mods permit it, please dont resort to the low level displayed in your 2 previous posts but try to keep to an objective discussion.

[dorp]

cml.
It's pretty obvious that me posting a picture of a fake bird being swallowed by a chocolate fountain of death and then advocating the op feeds his parrot chocolate as a joke. So, for the first time ever, you're right about me 'trolling' here. Although, I'm a little disappointed that you, the person flaming me for being a troll all the time would get so worked up over a blatantly obvious joke post.

tread softly my parrot friend

[marie83]

Someone who didn't know better might not realise the comment was a joke even though the picture obviously is a joke though Dorp. Thats the point.

[cml]

cml.
It's pretty obvious that me posting a picture of a fake bird being swallowed by a chocolate fountain of death and then advocating the op feeds his parrot chocolate as a joke. So, for the first time ever, you're right about me 'trolling' here. Although, I'm a little disappointed that you, the person flaming me for being a troll all the time would get so worked up over a blatantly obvious joke post.

tread softly my parrot friend

I am not worked up, I am worried that just as Ive tried to explain, and Marie posted as well, that even if it is blatantly obvious thats its a joke (although to most of us here a bad one) to you and to me, it might not be to some random person just happening to stumble into this thread.