How to get your pet to be more extroverted

Teaching your parrot to be more extrovertive is relatively easy, but what can you do if your reluctant parrot refuses to do so or displays avoidance behaviors, threatening behaviors, and possibly resorts to aggression? How do you deal with this?

A well-trained bird will be willing to step up and be easier to live with and manage. At one point or the other, you would need for your bird to step readily to hand and ideally, you should be able to get your parrot to do this with relative ease and without a battle of will.

Reading this article will help you obtain all the basic information you can use to foster a peaceful relationship with your companion parrot so that it starts listening to you and doing as it's instructed instead of acting like a disobedient, defiant child.

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How To Get Your Bird To Drop Its Avoidance Behavior

Avoidance Behavior

After teaching your parrot to climb onto your finger or hand and it knows full well your keyword for stepping up when it hears it, but it suddenly refuses to step up and engages in avoidance behavior, It may be because the person making the request isn't the parrot's preferred person or it may be testing limits and trying to gain dominance over a person.

Your parrot may back away on its perch or tree stand and ignore your request, run away and often seems to almost enjoy doing it or even fly away determined to dodge the proffered hand.

When your parrot does this, remain calm and use the double-handed swoop to assist it in stepping up.

How to do the double-handed swoop

You can do this by bringing both hands in simultaneously under your parrot's abdomen.

A bird that sees a hand coming at it from one direction, can track its movement, and is in a better position to either latch on painfully or bite that hand.

This technique works because your parrot ideally sees in more than one direction at a time. Your parrot would try to track the movement on either side of its head and obediently steps up.

What To Do When Your Disgruntled Parrot Bites After Stepping Up

After you must have gained the upper hand and made your parrot do as requested and it steps up reluctantly, but then reaches down and bites you, you have outsmarted this pet of yours and it is now expressing his displeasure and trying to gain the upper hand.

For this, you could do the wobble correction.

How to do the wobble correction

Wobble correction is a downward movement of the hand that teaches the bird that each time it bites, its perch becomes unstable.

However, be careful when doing this. You do not want to use it to punish or frighten your parrot, i.e, a rapid and huge drop of the hand. A short downward motion is all you would need to convey that biting means the perch becomes less stable for your pet.

Like humans, parrots have their good days and bad days. If a parrot fails to respond to your initial attempts to get it to step up, it may be best to try again when you notice your pet is in a better and more receptive mood.

You may start when family members are absent, avoiding auditory and visual distractions.

In case the parrot resists climbing onto a hand, step-up training should be tried in a room where the cage is out of view. This will help it overlearn to trust a human and step onto a hand.