Daisy my foster Goffins

Haha what a sweetie. I'd like to squeeze her but I'm sure she'd find that utterly terrifying.

I definitely think progress can be made on fear of hands, it's just slow. We started target training awhile back with no physical contact but now I'm asking her to touch my fingers with her foot in order to reach the target. The first time she was focused on getting the treat and her foot brushed against my finger and I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She squawked, and flinched and flapped in a panic. It was sad to see.

Recently, although hesitantly, she will allow her foot to brush against my fingers without flinching and drawing back. That is HUGE progress. (Imagine Daisy's cage door open and she is sitting on the top of the door. I hold the door with my hand and make an extension of the door with my arm. I rest my other hand in a fist (the target) about 1/4 of the way up my arm. In order for her to get close enough to the target (and treat) to grab it, she has to step to the edge of the cage door, brushing her foot against my fingers where I"m holding the door) It has taken us about 2 weeks before she stopped flinching but she has stopped.

She is still a little to hesitant to push her any further for now but I am happy with the progress she has made.

She is very sweet and loves to interact with humans, as long as you don't try to touch her or move your hands around her too fast. She has gotten to the point where if she is sitting up on the perch of the playstand part of the cage and I'm putting food and water dishes up there, she doesnt back away anymore, she calmly stands there and waits. Another huge improvement!

She is noisy. LOL no doubt about that. I can hear her shrieks when I'm still in my car, pulling into my driveway. Sometimes she shrieks because she is upset, and sometimes she does it because she's a cockatoo and that's what they do. She makes a sound that sounds like she is saying "yep". I am teaching her to use that as her contact call to me when I leave the room. Again, we are making progress but it's slow (and deafening)

Today, she was looking out the window and saw something that really upset her. I couldnt see what it was. She shrieked her warning/danger call for 15 mins, easily. Finally, just as she settled down again, Mr P must've seen the same thing and started to growl. As soon as she heard Mr P growling (they are in tune with each other when it comes to this) she started shrieking again. My ears are still ringing!