SnowB
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I have a sun conure named, Skyler. I raised him since he was 3 weeks old and he’s now going on 4 years old. He is a very very good boy, we go everywhere together and he is harness trained. He loves to be around people and get as much attention as he can get from strangers. But when it comes to friends and family he wants to fly from one person to the next and just soak up the attention which I’m so happy about bcuz he gets along well with people compared to my golden conure. The thing is, sometimes he starts poking holes in their clothes or trying to break their jewelry (which he rarely does to me bcuz I have trained him not to/ when he even touches my jewelry as if he wants to play with it I calmly say “stop” and he says it back and stops then I’ll give him something he actually can play with) and he will nip them if they try to tell him no/take the jewelry away and when it’s time to put him away he flies away from me and gets the zoomies and it is so embarrassing. Sometimes he’ll randomly bite someone’s ear out of excitement he can’t contain. I can’t say he never ever bites me but I can say he rarely bites me unless I clearly do something I know he does not like and he doesn’t even bite me hard enough to hurt me. He just gets out of control around people we know and it looks as if he has no training whatsoever. He absolutely will not listen to anything I say. He is NEVER motivated by food or treats only when it comes to this situation. It is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE when we are at home though. At home he’s so sweet and cuddly and will go back in his cage when I tell him to and he steps up/down when asked. Of course he’s a bird and he won’t always just sit still on my shoulder, I never expect that from him. He loves to cuddle, play, and be noisy and hyper, I am entirely okay with it bcuz it’s part of having a bird. But what do I do about his behavior around friends and family? I don’t chase him when he keeps flying away from me but when he eventually steps up onto my hand I have to quickly turn around so he can’t see the person he wants to fly to and then I place him in his cage/backpack. Sometimes when it’s really bad I have to have the person go into a dark room/closet/bathroom bcuz it calms his excitement down and I have to gently grab him in the dark then put him away. I just want some advice on how to retrain this behavior. Please help. It’s so embarrassing when he’s acting like an untamed wild maniac when at home he’s so different
I have a sun conure named, Skyler. I raised him since he was 3 weeks old and he’s now going on 4 years old. He is a very very good boy, we go everywhere together and he is harness trained. He loves to be around people and get as much attention as he can get from strangers. But when it comes to friends and family he wants to fly from one person to the next and just soak up the attention which I’m so happy about bcuz he gets along well with people compared to my golden conure. The thing is, sometimes he starts poking holes in their clothes or trying to break their jewelry (which he rarely does to me bcuz I have trained him not to/ when he even touches my jewelry as if he wants to play with it I calmly say “stop” and he says it back and stops then I’ll give him something he actually can play with) and he will nip them if they try to tell him no/take the jewelry away and when it’s time to put him away he flies away from me and gets the zoomies and it is so embarrassing. Sometimes he’ll randomly bite someone’s ear out of excitement he can’t contain. I can’t say he never ever bites me but I can say he rarely bites me unless I clearly do something I know he does not like and he doesn’t even bite me hard enough to hurt me. He just gets out of control around people we know and it looks as if he has no training whatsoever. He absolutely will not listen to anything I say. He is NEVER motivated by food or treats only when it comes to this situation. It is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE when we are at home though. At home he’s so sweet and cuddly and will go back in his cage when I tell him to and he steps up/down when asked. Of course he’s a bird and he won’t always just sit still on my shoulder, I never expect that from him. He loves to cuddle, play, and be noisy and hyper, I am entirely okay with it bcuz it’s part of having a bird. But what do I do about his behavior around friends and family? I don’t chase him when he keeps flying away from me but when he eventually steps up onto my hand I have to quickly turn around so he can’t see the person he wants to fly to and then I place him in his cage/backpack. Sometimes when it’s really bad I have to have the person go into a dark room/closet/bathroom bcuz it calms his excitement down and I have to gently grab him in the dark then put him away. I just want some advice on how to retrain this behavior. Please help. It’s so embarrassing when he’s acting like an untamed wild maniac when at home he’s so different
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