Not going to lose my fingers.

Hi Jane,

Yip. He goes through stages though, sometimes I can touch his feet and his beak, but then the day after that it's like "no, only neck is allowed today", but for about ten seconds. It was actually really nice yesterday, I was touching his beak and he tilted his head to the side so I could scratch the other side. I don't know how often that will happen but I was really chuffed. With my husband, it's the "Scratch me. Hahaha got ya!" about 50% of the time, but when he does let my husband scratch him, my husband complains that his arm gets tired because Aka can sit there for 45 minutes to an hour and get scritches.

Hi Haz,

Thank you, and ouch. I hope it heals soon. Aka bites me when I scratch his head and go over the ear area so I have to be very careful. The first time, I didn't realise it was that close to his ear so he bit me. The thing about their beaks though, is that you can't free yourself unless you plan to fling them across the room as a reaction, or sever a large portion of your skin, so you have to sit there and wait until they decide to let go. He got me the other day on my face which was totally my fault. He was chilling on his cage door and I picked something up off the floor, but he thought I was going to try and take him off the door (which is his new favourite spot) because my hands were in his direction and he turned around and bit me. It's crazy how fast they are, I didn't even realise he bit me until I saw blood haha.