by Rue » Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:43 pm
She wants to be with you because you're her flock. I'm not a fan of clipped birds, but I believe it has a place in training - and is argueable, the quickest, easiest way to go about it. It's not the only way though.
If you clip her, you can stop the behaviours you don't like - her flying to you and not staying on the cagte...and then make certain your reward the behaviours you do like. Lots of praise when she's on her cage...treats too...even though she can no longer fly off of it, you still want to make a big deal of her being on it - if that's her place.
If you clip, work hard at the training, and hopefully when the feathers regrow you'll have instilled the desired behaviours and she'll be able to enjoy flying again.
Every parrot has a duty: To reduce the world to toothpicks.