Hello all, it's me again with my year old Senegal Yui
I will try to go in chronological order. So I have started morning training sessions with Yui about 4 days ago. I am trying to achieve Micheal Sazhin's grabbing techniques, as I have purchased his book. It's taking her a while, but she is still making a bit of progress concerning letting me touch her back.
Regrettably, I'm often busy. During the week I have school and work, and I am not home for long periods of time until the late evening. However, I usually save every Sunday for her and I stay home so she can be out and about in my bedroom with me. She has no one person aggression towards my family.
What has happened today, on Sunday in which I have been with her all day, in the morning training session (which are before she has any thing to eat so she's usually very motivated, also her amount of food has been reduced as I read about Micheal Sazhin's food management) within a couple of minutes she began to drop the pistachios in disinterest, which hasn't happened in any training session before. Later in the day she began to act a bit antsy as I was cleaning my room. She began quite purposefully flying to me in attempts to attack me. I was panicked and I turned the lights off which either does or does not help in some situations, I attempted to grab her but her foot would not let go of the cage. I grabbed her like The Parrot Wizard does, around the neck, and yet as I am trying to get her in the cage she still managed to draw blood from my fingers. I let go and began to cry (pitiful, I know). I left the lights off in hopes she might calm down. I continued to clean in the dark.
I decided she might be okay now, so I turned the lights back on. I continued to clean and she acted fine for a while. She was perched on a set of drawers on the opposite end of the room that I was. She flew over to my shoulder, and tore into the side of my face. I became panicked again (which is probably a huge contributing factor, right?) and tried to shake her off, but she clung to my shirt. I rushed over to turn the lights off and grabbed her to put her in the cage. She didn't bite me while I tried to put her in, which boggles me. But after the struggle I sat on my bed and cried again for a bit (so very pitiful), only because my cheek hurt and so did my feelings. Why does this happen? Why am I such a bad parrot owner? What did I do wrong? I asked myself. (Parrot soap opera)
Anyway, now she is still in the cage. When I was crying she was growling at me. And now that I am calm, when I put my hand by the cage she will look at it and then suddenly lunge and try to bite me, also if I put my face near her to look at her she attacks. She's been in there for about 30 minutes? Help, please!!!
I have no idea why, I want to say hormones but it's not even the season and I haven't been giving her a high potency diet. This has been happening less but it has happened before. I am so confused and frustrated, and I'm so thankful for this forum, haha!
Thank you all for your time!