Why is my lilac crowned amazon mean to everyone?

we got her from a petstore that kept her in a guinie pig cage with the gunie pigs she makes guinie pig nose but i was wondering if this had anything to do with it

Why is my lilac crowned amazon mean to everyone?
is he mean to you or everyone in general. Because if she is affectionate towards you but attacks everyone else, it may be a protection and pocessive thing. Unless the bird was properly socialized when it was younger, and it doesnt sound like it really has been if its been living with guinea pigs, she will become attached to you but hate everyone else. If she hates you as well it may also be a trust and socializing problem. check out www.birdtricks.com. I bought 3 dvds from them and they explain everything about what seems to be your problem. In saying this, spending more time with her and taming her more will soon end this problem, please look at that site it is exactly what you need, it helped me :)
Reply:Because she was raised wild with the guine pigs and has never bonded to a person before.This is a bird you have to learn to love from a distance knowing she/he is wild and would probly be good for breeding if you know for sure what sex the bird is in order to get the bird a mate to raise babies, otherwise love the bird from a distance and talk sweet to it, it can%26#039;t help how it was raised and keeping that in mind will help you love it no matter how mean it is because the bird simply doen%26#039;t know any better and never will. If you want a hand tamed bird don%26#039;t buy one from a petshop because their birds come from either bird mills from deplorable condition or from other people like yourself who probly bought the bird not knowing anything about it and getting bitten a time or 2 then not liking the bird anymore ending up giving it up to a pet shop where unknowingly people like yourself buy the bird at a high price figuring out later what you are just now figuring out about the bird. You never know what the bird has been through or how many other families this bird has been with before you got the bird, the poor thing. Knowing your bird appears mean and wild you will need to warn everyone coming into the house not to touch at the bird or they will get bitten, and really loving the bird from a distance isn%26#039;t so bad, once your bird sees with it%26#039;s own eye you respect it in that sense then it will be happier someone finally understands it, and then you will see this because the bird will then begin playing with it%26#039;s toys, whistling tunes and eating more nomally. Because right now it doen%26#039;t know you or anyone else in the house and only knows it is affraid of the people who do not understand it, always keeping it%26#039;s defences up and thinking it needs to be noisey and mean to protect itself, because it doesn%26#039;t know any better.





Plus don%26#039;t make it being tamed so important to you, that you get your feelings hurt when the bird doesn%26#039;t bond or act the way you want it to.The bird is his own person with his own personality and mind made up as to how it wants to act and you have to give it permission to be who it wants to be and love it anyway, because over time, it may not tame up, but it will love you for respecting IT%26#039;S space.
Reply:Without any other information to go off of I would assume she is scared. How long have you had her? Birds take time to learn new places and situations.





It doesn%26#039;t seem like the pet store took very good care of her, she may be getting over that trauma as well.





Be patient, let her learn you and try to find things she likes. Music, treats, etc. If you put the time in and don%26#039;t push she%26#039;ll come around.





Good luck!



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