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Hi all! This is my parrotlet Buddy, almost 2 years old ♥ We have had him since he was around 8 weeks old and have never had any issues with biting as he is typically very friendly and tame, however in the past month and a half he has started to bite quite hard, to the point of drawing blood...

Hello, my name is Luke and i adopted a parrotlet called Tiny last week after months of research. He's 8 months old. Things started well with him being affectionate, accepting pats and beak scratches, but a week into owning him (or him owning us?) and he's becoming a real nightmare. So just after...

Hello everyone! I'm new and have a couple of questions about my parrotlet. His name is Puck, he is 2 years old. Ever since he turned 2, he started having these aggressive "ticks" where he'll squeek and then bite very hard. Sometimes it's triggered by an object, which I'll remove. However he...

I just recently got a blue pacific parrotlet (named Blu) and he is about 3 months old now (born in August). When I first got him he was very sweet and timid, not biting and quick to step onto my finger. He was also cuddly and enjoyed sleeping on my shoulder or in my jacket hood. However, in the...

Hey everyone! :) So my baby p’lett Billie is about 9-10 weeks old (not hand-raised) and I’ve had her for a month now. Whenever she’s training and millet is involved she’s perfectly happy and responsive and she loves head scratches so I feel our bond is already quite strong. However, when she...

I've had my parrotlet, Bert, for almost 10 years. We have a close bond and she has always been respectful, had a soft beak, and loves to cuddle. Since I've been working from home, she has gotten progressively more clingy and aggressive of anything I pick up or touch with my hands or mouth. It's...

Hi everyone, I've had my 2 month old parrotlet Helix for about 2 weeks now. We have been making progress with bonding and the first week he was being very sweet, gently putting his beak on me to see what I was, and stepping up to eat from my other hand. The past two days when we have "hand time"...

My Parrotlet Kiwi is quite feisty. He is only about 5 months old, and already makes a kissing sound, and says his name (and something else I can't understand what it is yet :D) He knows how to step up, but I have learned that I can't slowly bring my hand up to him, otherwise he runs away, and...

Hi guys, i have a 2 year old parrotlet who i got about a month ago from a lady on craigslist but she took amazing care of him. he was first in a home where he was abused by wreckless children and Tina rescued him from them. Now timmy is mine, and with Tina he was semi tame, but it seems he has...

So I'm new to this forum, although I've been reading through quite a few things on here since getting my parrotlet Loki when he was 7 weeks. At first he was really sweet and even though it took some time to build trust, only a few weeks in he was flying to my hand/stepping up and letting me give...

I think I need some help. Are parrotlets normally aggressive? This is becoming a huge problem I'm attaching some pictures. My bird, P, is male and three years old. About two years ago he started showing signs of aggression. It started off as lunging and I did gentle beak technique, and that...

My little one is about a year old now, and he's a sweetheart who is very attached to me. He has two major problems though- 1. "Screeching"- He stays in his cage in our bedroom. When he wakes up, he screeches, very loud pesky sounds until we get up and open the cage for him. He also does it if...

Hello fellow parrotlet lovers! I am a new parrotlet owner (and a first time bird owner) and I would love to chat with some that are well experienced with dealing with parrotlets. My baby is four months old and she is amazing! So acrobatic and intelligent. I am madly in love. However, she bites...

SO Fletch has a biting problem. She was so good right after the terrible twos, but as the weather got warmer, her biting got worse. And it's not just the "you scared me bite" or "i didn't like that" bite... she's actually ripping off tiny pieces of my skin and eating it. Yes, she enjoys EATING...

So, I am happy to say that my boys are slowly starting to eat more veggies! So far they seem to like bell pepper, carrots and rocket lettuce. I also decided to order some Versele-Laga Nutribird pellets at my local pet shop (they didn't have it in stock, but could order it for me, thankfully!)...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum but I'm looking for advice. I got my baby girl, Elsa in June 2014 at 3 months old. She is now 15 months old and very active. But the big issue with her is that she is a constant biter. I've tried multiple things to get her to behave, (the firm 'No', the unsteady...

So I've had Otis for a month and a half now and he's finally allowing himself to be picked up, moved about and handled freely. But unfortunately he's also experimenting with nibbling at me, though I understand it's in a birds nature to bite and nip he's gotten to the point of drawing blood on...

when we rehomed our two pacific blue brothers this past christmas, they were inseparable. but recently, we've found them bickering and fighting a lot. first incident, beavis suffered a bloody bite in the upper leg. then a day later, he retaliated by nearly biting off butthead's rear right toe...

Hello! My baby is 3.5-4 months old and she's awesome! :D However, recently she started biting me and pretty much everything around her. I did notice that she has a lot of pin feathers growing on her head and neck. Could that be the reason? How should I treat her during this time? Of course I...

So I've posted here about my little guy, Jackson, before. I got him in November of last year, and we have been working on training and speech since he came to my house. He was a little bitey when we first got him, and I was directed to the 'gentle beak' technique. He took to it quite well...