Hi all,
I'm having trouble taming my IRN. Butters is a creamino, about 14 months old. He's afraid of hands and I'm having a lot of trouble helping him get over it. He'll take food from my hands and I can get him to step up onto a coffee mug, but he nips at my hands and bites hard enough to break the skin. I can't get him to step up onto my fingers without getting bitten. I also can't move him to another cage without traumatizing him with a towel (or clip nails or wings). This makes cleaning his cage difficult because he screams the whole time. Does anyone have any advice?
I'm having trouble taming my IRN. Butters is a creamino, about 14 months old. He's afraid of hands and I'm having a lot of trouble helping him get over it. He'll take food from my hands and I can get him to step up onto a coffee mug, but he nips at my hands and bites hard enough to break the skin. I can't get him to step up onto my fingers without getting bitten. I also can't move him to another cage without traumatizing him with a towel (or clip nails or wings). This makes cleaning his cage difficult because he screams the whole time. Does anyone have any advice?