Hey from Canada!

[Cassandrum]

Brand new to the forums, hello! So I've been browsing the forums for about an hour so far, and I have some kind of specific questions that maybe you guys can point me in the right direction for...? There is tons and tons of information on here, and I'm having trouble sifting through it all.

I inherited Taz from my mother, she passed away on last month. She taught me quite a bit before she passed, so I am not completely in the dark, but there are some behavioral things that I am unsure about and don't know where to go for them.

He seems to have bonded to me quite well, in fact so well that he screams when I leave to go to the bathroom! Is this because he has "abandonment" issues? Will this just take time? Strangely, when I have to leave for university in the morning, and I say "Bye bye!", he doesn't seem to scream at me. And he is extremely happy when I get home

This I am also maybe attributing to him adjusting to a new owner, but he won't come with me to another area of the same room. My mom had him on her shoulder quite a bit, and he would stay there for hours while she worked on the computer, watched a movie, whatever. Or, she would put him beside her on the desk/chair/perch nearby and he would be perfectly content. He won't go more than a couple feet from his cage with me, and if he does it's an immediate fly-away back to his cage when I sit down. Is this time? Should I just keep trying to attempt until he gets used to it? The reason I am trying is because his cage and my computer are on opposite sides of the room, and he gets quite noisy unless I am sitting right beside him. I can't stay at the kitchen table forever.

He has also found me mate-like enough (I guess) to offer me food. As in regurgitate on my ear/hand/shoulder/nose/insert-body-part. Will this eventually subside? Time as well...?

I believe he is about 4. I have also heard that parrots go through life-cycles, like puberty, teenage-moody-ness, the like. Anywhere I can go for information like that?

Oh! One more very important question! He never learned to speak when he was younger. Is it still possible to teach him?

Thanks for reading the long read

[liz]

Brand new to the forums, hello! So I've been browsing the forums for about an hour so far, and I have some kind of specific questions that maybe you guys can point me in the right direction for...? There is tons and tons of information on here, and I'm having trouble sifting through it all.

I inherited Taz from my mother, she passed away on last month. She taught me quite a bit before she passed, so I am not completely in the dark, but there are some behavioral things that I am unsure about and don't know where to go for them.

He seems to have bonded to me quite well, in fact so well that he screams when I leave to go to the bathroom! Is this because he has "abandonment" issues? Will this just take time? Strangely, when I have to leave for university in the morning, and I say "Bye bye!", he doesn't seem to scream at me. And he is extremely happy when I get home

This I am also maybe attributing to him adjusting to a new owner, but he won't come with me to another area of the same room. My mom had him on her shoulder quite a bit, and he would stay there for hours while she worked on the computer, watched a movie, whatever. Or, she would put him beside her on the desk/chair/perch nearby and he would be perfectly content. He won't go more than a couple feet from his cage with me, and if he does it's an immediate fly-away back to his cage when I sit down. Is this time? Should I just keep trying to attempt until he gets used to it? The reason I am trying is because his cage and my computer are on opposite sides of the room, and he gets quite noisy unless I am sitting right beside him. I can't stay at the kitchen table forever.

He has also found me mate-like enough (I guess) to offer me food. As in regurgitate on my ear/hand/shoulder/nose/insert-body-part. Will this eventually subside? Time as well...?

I believe he is about 4. I have also heard that parrots go through life-cycles, like puberty, teenage-moody-ness, the like. Anywhere I can go for information like that?

Oh! One more very important question! He never learned to speak when he was younger. Is it still possible to teach him?

Thanks for reading the long read

His favorite person in the world left him. He does not know why. Then you moved him to your house. That is strange too. He likes you but where is his human. Are you going to leave him too. His cage is all that has stayed the same.

Maybe he has never needed to talk. Did your mother talk to him a lot or was he just her comfy companion. There is no reason why he can't talk. Give him time.

[Cassandrum]

Yeah, my mom talked to him lots. I guess he never picked it up. Suppose I do just got to give it more time, I just want to make sure that nothing terrible is up I guess. Oh, just to clarify, I moved into his house, my moms apartment, so he hasn't switched houses. This apartment is atrociously expensive though, so I will have to move come the end of April...that will be an adventure and a half >.<

[animal_lover]

Hello fellow Canadian! Nova Scotian here. Sorry for your loss

I guess if you keep talking with your buddy maybe he will pick up some words. Not that my Jojo says a lot but to encourage him to talk I would make extreme gestures while I said the word I was teaching. I played peekaboo with him and would say the words for example. Or I would spread my arms and say in a high pitched voice " whatcha doin? ". He learned pretty quickly. Good luck

Sarah and Jojo

[Cassandrum]

Thanks for the input animal_lover! I'll keep chatting with him and see what happens. It sounds like he is trying to talk, well what I would perceive as trying to talk. Time will tell!