Lovely Rosette
01-24-2013, 02:01 AM
My lovie is 1 year old now...I have had her since March last year. When I first got her I hand fed her as a baby and she became used to my hands and often sat with me peacefully..but as the months went on she became violent..even towards my husband who was taming her along side me..she won't step up and has to either be coaxed out of her cage or forcefully removed which I really dislike doing..but coaxing doesn't always work. If not removed I cannot clean her cage as she continuously attacks me.
We had to clip her flight feathers to prevent her from attacking us this way as well..she would fly to us and grab mine or my husbands ears or nose and bite them until they bleed.
I have tried many things that have been suggested to me. Changing out toys, changing position of toys and perches. She refused to eat anything but seeds. I buy a seed with vitamin but I don't think it is enough. She refuses to eat fruits or veggies she refuses pellet diets. She even refuses certain brands of seed the pet store recommended a vitamin filled food mix with fruit, egg, veggies and other things but she only eats around it.
She won't use cuttlebones so I have to add calcium powders to her foods. She hates the actual cuttle bone and only screams at it.
3 weeks ago she laid two eggs within a few days of each other despite me trying to prevent nesting habits. She has a toy she "loves" and I removed it from her cage. Since laying the eggs though she became crazy... she runs around the cage sometimes in a freak out, when her nesting habits started she began pecking things really hard and making allot of noise. After she laid the eggs she..won't sleep. She used to take naps around 4 PM but now she doesn't nap.
At night for the past 3 weeks she screams and screams and screams. We have to put her in a separate room now. I live in Japan and we don't have central heatings and air so she always stays in the same room as we do but now we have to put her in another room with her own heating which is costing allot of money for us but she stays quiet if alone.
Right now she is in the living room with me and screaming..I can't do anything without her screaming. If I block her from seeing me and stay silent she calms down..but if she sees me or my husband she starts the screaming all over again. I thought maybe she wanted more attention but..giving her more attention has not worked...
Our lack of sleep or peace is driving us crazy as we both have jobs and work different schedules. She wakes up extremely early with very little sleep as she screams at least until midnight or later until put into a room by herself. My husband sleeps early and I sleep later..he wakes early and I sleep later but this has prevented our sleep schedules with her sudden screaming fits that last until 1 am and then she rises early at 6 o 7 and begins her screaming again.
We have done everything in the books and what we have found online to try and tame her but something is wrong. I have owned birds since I was 16 and have never encountered such a problem..
It has come down to my husband hating her and wanting her removed from the house..I really want to give her a chance..she was given to me as a gift of love but has turned into a stress make in our house hold..I don't know what to do other than give her up..but I really want that to be the very last resort..I want to feel she is a good pet like she was the first 3 months of our life together.
Please help us..I'm begging anybody..
We had to clip her flight feathers to prevent her from attacking us this way as well..she would fly to us and grab mine or my husbands ears or nose and bite them until they bleed.
I have tried many things that have been suggested to me. Changing out toys, changing position of toys and perches. She refused to eat anything but seeds. I buy a seed with vitamin but I don't think it is enough. She refuses to eat fruits or veggies she refuses pellet diets. She even refuses certain brands of seed the pet store recommended a vitamin filled food mix with fruit, egg, veggies and other things but she only eats around it.
She won't use cuttlebones so I have to add calcium powders to her foods. She hates the actual cuttle bone and only screams at it.
3 weeks ago she laid two eggs within a few days of each other despite me trying to prevent nesting habits. She has a toy she "loves" and I removed it from her cage. Since laying the eggs though she became crazy... she runs around the cage sometimes in a freak out, when her nesting habits started she began pecking things really hard and making allot of noise. After she laid the eggs she..won't sleep. She used to take naps around 4 PM but now she doesn't nap.
At night for the past 3 weeks she screams and screams and screams. We have to put her in a separate room now. I live in Japan and we don't have central heatings and air so she always stays in the same room as we do but now we have to put her in another room with her own heating which is costing allot of money for us but she stays quiet if alone.
Right now she is in the living room with me and screaming..I can't do anything without her screaming. If I block her from seeing me and stay silent she calms down..but if she sees me or my husband she starts the screaming all over again. I thought maybe she wanted more attention but..giving her more attention has not worked...
Our lack of sleep or peace is driving us crazy as we both have jobs and work different schedules. She wakes up extremely early with very little sleep as she screams at least until midnight or later until put into a room by herself. My husband sleeps early and I sleep later..he wakes early and I sleep later but this has prevented our sleep schedules with her sudden screaming fits that last until 1 am and then she rises early at 6 o 7 and begins her screaming again.
We have done everything in the books and what we have found online to try and tame her but something is wrong. I have owned birds since I was 16 and have never encountered such a problem..
It has come down to my husband hating her and wanting her removed from the house..I really want to give her a chance..she was given to me as a gift of love but has turned into a stress make in our house hold..I don't know what to do other than give her up..but I really want that to be the very last resort..I want to feel she is a good pet like she was the first 3 months of our life together.
Please help us..I'm begging anybody..