Reply With QuoteYep, we've all have those days I suspect. The tough part is always figuring out what the heck triggered this so it won't happen again.
My heart goes out to you as do my well wishes for the both of you.
You got to decide on whether your going to just ...arrrggggghhh .... or just let it go which is really all you can do. I swear, african greys just have that personality that at times makes me wonder what was I doing getting into all this. He's a lover, just a wonder of a guy. Boy he can make you just laugh and laugh and theres not a thought in your head of being in his life. But then that morning arrives....
And you wonder why did I allow myself to get involved w/him. You uncover him w/all the stupidity that each morning will be just like the others. But not this morning. This morning you uncover this creature from the black lagoon. Eye's wild and roving trying to find the spot in the cage that allows easy access to biting the poop out of that stupid human. Then once the cage is uncovered and your trying to understand what is going on, it comes to you. He wants NOTHING to do with you and you think "auuhhhh s--t, not again. Trying each time to figure out what the issue is THIS time and not managing it, he has become this creature that you know doesn't want anything to do with you, to the point of DONT put my lunch or dinner into my cage. If you are recless enough to do such a dumb thing-which I just did unfortunetly- all h-ll breaks loose, feathers are flying, little downies are flying in the holocaust of this THING biting the poop out of you for reasons I don't understand. I finally get a grip of this feathered monster, wings and body held tightly to my chest, fingers holding top and bottom beak together just to save skin and start doing that slow mantra of"it's all right, +++slow breathing+++, it's all right, everythings okay, momma loves you, your a good boy, it's okay" until I can feel the chest slow down to normal breathing and then I take that chance of placing him on the floor of his cage, and quickly getting my body and arms and hands out of the cage. Jeeez!!!!! Now wasn't that a great experience. Not going to do that again. Bowl is staying there all day and will just cover him when the night comes. Thats it. Too many bites on these hands today. Will definetly give him his S P A C E ! ! ! !
Don't you just love em???
Christo
Yep, we've all have those days I suspect. The tough part is always figuring out what the heck triggered this so it won't happen again.
My heart goes out to you as do my well wishes for the both of you.
Giving thought to the issue, I am going towards the idea of that I took a shower last night and trimmed my hair a tad bit which allowed some curl to come back, and my hair is not in a pony tail like it normally is during hot weather. #2though is, my shorts are bright pink and though I never related pink to his hated colors as black, T=shirts w/print in the middle and I think thats it, but maybe I need to add pink to it. Either way he's spending the day in his room. Not going outside to the aviary nope. He can take the day to settle down. heck, I walk into the room for one of the other guys and he's on the floor chasing me in whatever direction I'm going. I'm pretty sure this will go away tomorrow when I change clothes, but man.....
It's definetly a little sharp man in a grey suit.
Christo
Are you having a bad day Christo, it happens to the best of us sometimes but I can relate to your grey reacting to something you wore. One day I put on a pair of shorts I had not worn before around Josey and she didn't like them one bit, she ran around in a tizzy trying to get away but she soon calmed down, funny how something simple like that can affect them.inch: :P
Never take life seriously, no one gets out alive anyway!
Don't you just love em??? Yep we sure do Christo, with all their faults & failures & funny ways, we carry on loving them unconditonallytomorrow is another day
Yep tomorrow is another day and it happens to be a Friday, yippee, bring on the 3-day weekend, yee haw!!!
Boy can I agree with you all. I wasn't in a bad mood at all, non that I know about. Fact it was such a wonderous day here in AZ where it was 110 2 days ago and 63 today w/storms. Amazing day, great day, day we all spent in the aviary together EXCEPT Micah, he spent it all by himself in his cage. I wasn't going to give up anymore blood than already did this morning. I figured maybe he just needed a day to himself?
Like you guys said, tomorrow brings a better day-which by the way is what I always tell them as the lights go out for the night. I still slipped his treat in his cage and told him momma loves him, as he raced across his cage telling me to GO AWAY. So lights out for the day. Hope tomorrow is better. Maybe I'll stink better since took shower last night hahaha They are strange. he's the only one that does this. My Too's and my macaw nothing. Though my macaw will sometimes want some time to herself, not want mom around. I respect that.
Have a great weekend guys.
Christo
I can't imagine what thats like my birds have never bit me not enough to draw blood ever I sorry I can't even beginn to relate to that. Mine are all rescues but I would never give my birds an opertunity to bite me that hard.
What a story. I also can not imagine what you go through. You actually pick him up as well, very very brave. I would never ever attempt to pick up any of our greys when they don't want to be picked up.
My bad days with our greys pale in comparisson. A bad day for me is our female not wanting to go into her cage in the morning and it taking me 20 minutes to persuade her to go in. I let out a big sigh of relief as I finally find the treat that works to get her in. We both end up happy, she has her treat and I am on time for work.
Gotta love em unconditionally! :kiss: B)
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