Post by jazzyjade on Jan 7, 2015 15:30:57 GMT -5
Hello,
I have had my Quaker, Jade, for 4 years now. I got him when he was first weaned. A few months ago I adopted another Quaker from a pet shop. Jazzy is a 5 year old Male Quaker. He just talks up a storm, BUT after he had been with me for a couple of weeks he started biting… HARD!!!! I can’t even hardly handle him because he bites so hard he causes black bruises or breaks the skin and makes me bleed. He comes to me on his own without a fight has even flown over to me several times. I don’t think that he dislikes me, he just bites. I can be sitting there watching TV and he will be walking all over me and the chair then out of the blue he reaches down and bites the mess out of me. I don’t know what to do because I have never experienced this with Jade. I have the 2 quakers and a baby African Grey. I love spending individual time with my babies but I’ve gotten to where I don’t want to hold Jazzy. I will stand there and talk to him and he talks back, I will even let him step up on my finger but I don’t want him crawling all over me. I don’t know his background but someone worked really hard with him because after he bites he says “Don’t you bite me!” he says tons of phrases and they were taught to him, not something he has picked up along the way. I want to love on him like I do the others but I can’t right now. Any suggestions?
I have had my Quaker, Jade, for 4 years now. I got him when he was first weaned. A few months ago I adopted another Quaker from a pet shop. Jazzy is a 5 year old Male Quaker. He just talks up a storm, BUT after he had been with me for a couple of weeks he started biting… HARD!!!! I can’t even hardly handle him because he bites so hard he causes black bruises or breaks the skin and makes me bleed. He comes to me on his own without a fight has even flown over to me several times. I don’t think that he dislikes me, he just bites. I can be sitting there watching TV and he will be walking all over me and the chair then out of the blue he reaches down and bites the mess out of me. I don’t know what to do because I have never experienced this with Jade. I have the 2 quakers and a baby African Grey. I love spending individual time with my babies but I’ve gotten to where I don’t want to hold Jazzy. I will stand there and talk to him and he talks back, I will even let him step up on my finger but I don’t want him crawling all over me. I don’t know his background but someone worked really hard with him because after he bites he says “Don’t you bite me!” he says tons of phrases and they were taught to him, not something he has picked up along the way. I want to love on him like I do the others but I can’t right now. Any suggestions?
I have found the information at the link below to be really helpful in beginning to understand the bite and how to start addressing it constructively. There are good suggestions for how to go about regaining hand control. For starters, though, I would not allow him to crawl around on you for now. The individual time you spend with him should primarily be in training mode, at least until he learns what behavior is expected.