As I ranted about in my Dory post.. I am having a lot of trouble with her
She refuses to go back in her cage whenever I get her out, and it honestly takes 30 minutes to get her to go back in She just flies away every time she sees that we are going to her cage... I haven't gotten her out in a week because of it, and I feel like a failure. She was not used to getting out of her cage at all when she came to me because she is from a rescue so she and most other birds spend their time in their cages.. but I still feel bad. For a while she did really well, and even when she wasn't hand tamed she would go back in, but it has become too much of a hassle. I have to leave aside 2-3 hours a day for her to be out, and sometimes with work it doesn't work out well
She also is very interested in the guinea pigs, and not recall trained.. She will try to go IN the cage and check them out, and she will bite me very hard when I try to get her to get out, and it is just stressful. I want our relationship to be very positive, and right now its all downhill. I had to towel her the other day in order to get her in her cage because I was going to be late to work.. She has a bad opinion about me now and I just feel so bad. I need to have another room for her so when I get her out she won't be distracted by Nash or the Guinea pigs.. but theres no option for that. Do any of you have any suggestions? She is losing her already small amount of tameness, and I don't want her to hate me! Whenever I get her out she always does because I have to kind of 'force' her to go back in the cage and she gets upset.
I still pet and feed her treats through the cage bars, but I know it's not enough.