u/SpiralBirb

feat. the service bell being rang

Hi guys! I have two amazon parrots, Ruby (6 y.o., second pic) and Baby (1 y.o. First pic).
Ruby is a naturally bred BFA and Baby is a hand reared one. Ruby has gained much more trust towards me by copying Babys behaviour which is beautiful. In general Ruby has built up lots of trust ever since I got her. She hangs out in my shoulder which only Baby did before!
Now to the issue.
Two weeks ago, I had an incident where I had to towel Baby because she was absolutely refusing to go into her cage as I had somewhere to go. It turned into a 10min chase and it was absolutely horrid. She was okay the next morning.
But this situation keeps reoccurring now, it has been the 5th time in two weeks and I am now at the point where I don't want to let her out anymore in the afternoons because I might ruin the bond even more. She stepped up before with no issue and we were able to bring her to her cage.
Inbetween these situations, she sometimes did let me put her in the cage and even came up to chill on my shoulder or knee or even my head.
She has in general been a little bit moody which might be because she's going through an extremely heavy moult (I think it's her first big moult). She usually is the very active one who bullies Ruby almost a little.
Ruby is totally fine and steps up and whatnot.
Baby is now terrified to step up at all and I feel so shitty about it. But whenever this happened I had to go somewhere.
Not even food really motivates Baby at the moment.
Would it be too much to try and use "unhealthy" snacks such as pasta for a better training result?
Or maybe she just wants a very specific type of bird cracker that I don't have at home rn. I don't really know.
Or any other tips to retrain trust to her cage (pic added) that she might now see as danger? :(
She still doots and screams as usual though.
Right now after this happened she even normally started snacking again too lol.

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Hi guys! I have two amazon parrots, Ruby (6 y.o., bird on the outside of the cage) and Baby (1 y.o. picture above).
Ruby is a naturally bred BFA and Baby is a hand reared one. Ruby has gained much more trust towards me by copying Babys behaviour which is beautiful. In general Ruby has built up lots of trust ever since I got her. She hangs out in my shoulder which only Baby did before!
Now to the issue.
Two weeks ago, I had an incident where I had to towel Baby because she was absolutely refusing to go into her cage as I had somewhere to go. It turned into a 10min chase and it was absolutely horrid. She was okay the next morning.
But this situation keeps reoccurring now, it has been the 5th time in two weeks and I am now at the point where I don't want to let her out anymore in the afternoons because I might ruin the bond even more. She stepped up before with no issue and we were able to bring her to her cage.
She has in general been a little bit moody which might be because she's going through an extremely heavy moult (I think it's her first big moult). She usually is the very active one who bullies Ruby almost a little.
Ruby is totally fine and steps up and whatnot.
Baby is now terrified to step up at all and I feel so shitty about it. But whenever this happened I had to go somewhere.
Not even food really motivates Baby at the moment.
Would it be too much to try and use "unhealthy" snacks such as pasta for a better training result?
Or any other tips to retrain trust to her cage (pic added) that she might now see as danger? :(