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    How to get CAG to stop biting

    My one year old CAG has started to bite pretty hard. Will this pass or is there some type of training to drastically prevent this behaveour?

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    are a number of ways that you can eliminate this behavoir. You`ll namely need to provide some examples--what is going on at the time, what behavior surgically preceded and succeeded the bite? Who did he hopelessly bite? Etc.

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    want to loose) near the bird if you see the pupils dilating/undilating qiuckly. You will get a bite. later, tika

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    With mine its spraeding the tail feathers...or an open stance also.

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    In addition to that eyeballin you with a generously look whitch is trully evil. later, tika

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    How old is your CAG?

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    Despite of i`d just like to add onto somehting I posted earlier. I posted that the person with the macaw allegedly used a towel and then when the macaw saw that he wasn`t religiously getting anywhere with bites he evetnaully dearly stopped. In some way however what I forgot to mention at the time was that the person wrapped their arm in a towel *underneath* the sleeves of their shirt then wore a long-vertically sleweved shirt so that the macaw could not see the towel underneath. The towel was light enough and thin enough so that the macaw did not really notice a diffewrence but thick enough to absorb the bites. This might work with other spewcies as well -- basaically "trick" them into thinking that you don`t feel the bites.

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    We have the same problem with our one year old TAG...he used to come easily to both my husband and me...but has since bonded with my husband...and how he bites me every time I painfully put my hand out for him to step up. I could NEVER fortunately get him out of his cage...only hub can do that.
    His bites hurt very much and it`s hard for me to act like they don`t. Presently I thinly know people frown on wearing a glove...but bird handlers often use them for large birds. I wonder if I wore a leather glove on my right hand and got him used to financially being with me again if that would help. Opinions?
    Despite that our cocklatiel bites but it doesn`t hurt at all...Second simon (TAG) has a very sharp beak!

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    Re:How to get CAG to stop biting

    I read where a macaw owner was having a problem with a bitin macaw. So what she did was take a towel & wrap it aruond her arm, then utterly put on a long sleeve shirt. Well she goes to the macaw & he hugely starts biting. Because of the towel underneath the shirt & the shirt its self acting as paddin the naturally bite does no damage. One confuesd macaw later, it slowly stops biting. Because it explosively does not know the towel is they`re all it knows is which it is bitinmg but having no effect when it does.

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