Post by Aardman on Jul 27, 2020 17:10:19 GMT -5
We’ve had Trixie for five years now. During all this time she has been the most gentle, soft-spoken and loving bird we have ever experienced. Always friendly to strangers and people she barely knows, never bites (except when playing and never hard), just a gregarious bird that everybody enjoys visiting with - well almost everybody. She HATES my sons girlfriend.
We noticed it when they were sitting at the dining room table. Whenever she would rub his head Trixie would get agitated and emit little squawks. She’s never really been very loud and to this day doesn’t talk, but she has a few sounds she makes and she was acting irritated. As soon as she’d stop rubbing his head she’d calm down. If my son returned the behavior with his girlfriend, she would start back in again.
From that point on, really a little before that, Trixie want’s nothing to do with the girlfriend - will peck aggressively whenever she tries to pet or get near the cage, and generally acts agitated whenever she spots the two of them together.
Yesterday, though, she launched an attack! She literally leaped from the cage onto her back as she stood and started BITING her! We had to pull the bird off and lock her into her cage, something we’ve NEVER had to do!
Literally, as long as the girlfriend isn’t around the bird is her normal, mellow, loving self, but something about the girlfriend just turns her into a completely different pet.
I doubt there is much that can be done about it, but is this behavior jealousy (she really loves my son), or is it something else?
We noticed it when they were sitting at the dining room table. Whenever she would rub his head Trixie would get agitated and emit little squawks. She’s never really been very loud and to this day doesn’t talk, but she has a few sounds she makes and she was acting irritated. As soon as she’d stop rubbing his head she’d calm down. If my son returned the behavior with his girlfriend, she would start back in again.
From that point on, really a little before that, Trixie want’s nothing to do with the girlfriend - will peck aggressively whenever she tries to pet or get near the cage, and generally acts agitated whenever she spots the two of them together.
Yesterday, though, she launched an attack! She literally leaped from the cage onto her back as she stood and started BITING her! We had to pull the bird off and lock her into her cage, something we’ve NEVER had to do!
Literally, as long as the girlfriend isn’t around the bird is her normal, mellow, loving self, but something about the girlfriend just turns her into a completely different pet.
I doubt there is much that can be done about it, but is this behavior jealousy (she really loves my son), or is it something else?
