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Post by Scratchpost on Jan 18, 2023 12:45:33 GMT -7
We had a busy weekend last weekend and Aka was a bit out of sorts with all the people. My husband and I don't really entertain much so the most amount of people Aka sees at the same time in the flat is three, my husband and I, and a friend who lives around the corner. He was bit annoyed that he couldn't sit on his cage but he seemed OK on Sunday morning. Only one friend visited on Sunday (compared to seven on Saturday) and I think he had had enough.
Normally, when I stand outside I stand so he can see me otherwise he screeches and I think he's falling to his death (because that's what it sounds like) every time so I (foolishly) go check on him. On Sunday, he was speaking (parrot sounds, no words yet) so nicely and softly, and sounded super excited. I stood next to the cage and he started playing with his new toy very vigorously as if to say "Look, I can be interesting too!" He kept looking (but tried to hide it) up at me to see if I was still watching him. Every time I moved away from the cage, even to stretch or whatever, he would play with his toy in a different way and speak to me the way he speaks to me during the day when we have our one-on-one talking sessions. It was so cute, I stood there for a while because he felt excluded. He eventually lost interest and started eating his pellets, giving me a chance to move the meter away from the cage where I was originally standing.
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Post by Jane on Jan 19, 2023 2:18:04 GMT -7
Yes, they can get jealous. It sounds like he was jealous of you spending time with other people and is showing you that he has alternatives options he can play with and devote time to.
Sometimes with visitors they can put on a show and behave differently to how they usually are.
Jane
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Post by Scratchpost on Jan 19, 2023 6:12:43 GMT -7
Hi Jane,
That was my thinking too, about the jealousy. It's odd though because our friend who stays around the corner doesn't illicit the same response. Aka has known this friend since he was a baby. We were still hand-feeding him when our friend would visit often, and he used to sit on the friend's lap. I think it's because he views this friend as part of his flock, he just doesn't stay with us. I/we could spend as much time as we want outside with this friend and Aka entertains himself, but anyone else, he gets jealous and tries to catch and keep my attention.
Aka is still a bit weary of other people (possibly because we don't entertain much) so he doesn't really put on a show other than playing VERY loudly with his toys and he preens more often as if to say "I'm so pretty, look at me!" I suppose that is a bit of a show, just not a very obvious one... He doesn't say 'Hello' at all when we have guests (except that one friend). It's really funny because I tell people that he says 'Hello' but the minute these people come to visit, Aka refuses to talk haha.
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Post by Haz on Jan 19, 2023 10:03:25 GMT -7
I never know how Chy will react to visitors. Sometimes she is aloof and doesn't say anything. Other times she is quite talkative. When she first met the next door neighbour, she acted as if he was the love of her life calling him, "My darling" etc.
Haz
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Post by Scratchpost on Jan 21, 2023 6:35:56 GMT -7
Hi Haz,
That is so cute. How did your neighbour respond?
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Post by Haz on Jan 21, 2023 12:52:00 GMT -7
He acted loving towards her too.
Haz
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Post by Scratchpost on Jan 22, 2023 9:31:33 GMT -7
That's cute. I love that each grey has a unique personality.
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Post by Adele on Jan 26, 2023 21:02:03 GMT -7
That is really funny. They are all so different. Manzi was so attached to me, but he was a big show off and often loved to entertain big groups of people. He would chatter away, do silly things, laugh and laugh, etc.
On the other hand, if I spent one-on-one time with others, that's when he was jealous. Once I was showing my friend how to salsa dance, and I held her hand showing her some moves, and he dive bombed her head. He was furious with her!! So everyone giving him attention was just fine in his mind, but me giving someone else attention? No way!!
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Post by Scratchpost on Jan 27, 2023 1:55:31 GMT -7
Hi Adele,
Wow, that must have been scary for your friend! Aka gets like that sometimes with my husband. On normal days, my husband can scratch him no problem, but if I was busy during the day and I couldn't spend as much time as usual with Aka, he seems to think that ALL m attention should go to him and he bites my husband when he comes in for scratches. It's very seldom when it's a hard bite so I think it's just a matter of "It's my time now, you can have her later."Our landlord told me her husband had a cockatiel when they met and the cockatiel was extremely jealous of my landlord. The cockatiel would fly to her head and start biting her scalp and hair if he was out of his cage and my landlord and her partner spoke.
Aka gets frights easily so I always have the doors to his cage closed when we have people over except for that one close friend. One of my friends has three or four rats as pets and when he bought them, he came to show us but we didn't know he was going to come over so Aka was out of his cage. Aka didn't see them but he knew something was up with the box they were in and he started growling and spread his wings as if to fly over there. That was the first time he reacted like that, and then we noticed he doesn't like people wearing very bright colours/patterns and he tries to fly to them (possibly to attack the scary shirt) so we close his cage.
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Post by Jane on Jan 28, 2023 5:47:07 GMT -7
Monty and Mitzi are like chalk and cheese. Mitzi is a typical African Grey but Monty isn't. He never gets jealous, he is rarely frightened of things, he likes everybody, he never bites, he is very docile and affectionate.
He has a lot of problems - his feet, his wings, his beak, but he is such a happy boy. He doesn't talk but he squawks and whistles (not tunes though!).
Oh and he loves water.
Jane
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Post by Haz on Jan 29, 2023 8:30:59 GMT -7
Monty is such a sweetheart. Who cares if he doesn't talk.
Haz
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