> Help, is there anything I can do or will be ultimately bond
> with her and get meaner to me.
He won;t get *meaner* to you, but he has chosen your mom as
his *mate*...Nothing you can do about that, and since he is
an adult bird, it is doubtful that will ever change.
I had the same relationship with the Blue Headed Pionus I
had...We had her from the time she had jsut weaned, in fact I
still supplemented her with spoon feedings for a couple weeks
after we brought her home...Did everything for her...Hubby is
not a *bird person* but she fell head over heels for him
anyway...She layed an entire clutch of eggs for him, and as
long as he was in the room, would fight to the death for
him...She'd latch her beak onto my and not let go, drawing
blood...That was when I was too stupid to heed her warning
signals, which, thank goodness, are very clear, seeing as
Pionus are cousins to the Amazon, who also has extremely
clear *keep the heck away from me* signals...
She was fine to me if he was at work, or at least out of the
room...She was also a *shoulder bird* (my mistake) who was
not trained, so she was one of those who it would take an
hour of chasing to catch while she'd run from one side of my
neck/back to the other...That bird was the last time I ever
made that mistake of allowing a bird to climb up onto my
shoulder on their own. In any case, there isn't much you can
do at this point, once a bird makes up his mind...It is just
nature...
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