Anyone that tells you it's Ok to have a Parrot on your shoulder still has both eyes and only two nostrils and two ears and no facial scars.
If your bird is displaying behavioral problems you are only asking to get nailed.
You have to realize that they do not have hands with which to warn you or even ward you off, they have no feet to kick you in the butt should you do something stupid, the only thing they do have that can make an impression is their beak.
Not every bite is one that was intended to hurt you, rather there are many that are done to warn you or to scold you or even protect you.
If at any time she is on your shoulder and your boyfriend is near the longer you all stay together in sight of each other the more dangerous it is going to get because your bird is on high alert and will warn you should the "evil one" get too close.
Here is something I posted at another place that might help shed a little light on the subject.
Well it was bound to happen some time and tonight it did. Gracie nailed me on the upper lip and hung on for dear life. It happened so fast that the next thing I knew she was on the floor and I was whistling Dixie through a hole I didn’t have before. I picked her up and put her back to the play stand before heading to the bathroom to see what kind of damage was done. The tip of her beak tore a nice sized triangle into the outside of my upper lip and the bottom of her beak left a surprisingly shallow gash on the inside.
Lucky for me I have a hairy upper lip so no one will ever see the botch job I did with the stitches I tried to put in myself while everything was still numb.
Now I will have to go through life with a permanent snarl … Arghhhh, all I need now is an eye patch, but hey, I have parrots, they’ll work on that too I am sure.
Seriously though, I didn’t try to sew myself up again, although it might have needed a stitch or two, but I sure as heck am not going to go to the emergency room at the VA hospital that’s for sure.
So I put some Mercurochrome Merbromin solution which is an antiseptic and will use Prep H if the swelling gets too bad.
I'll just never shave again.
I just can’t get a break some weeks.
Poor Gracie was probably more scared than I was. I know why it happened and again it was all my fault. Gracie is a very jealous feathered wife and I had just gotten done schmoozing with Cleo after having taken her out from her “Time-out” and was walking past Gracie and threw her a kiss like I always do and complacency got the better of me. I should have known something was wrong when I saw her shoot at me like a rocket with blood in her eyes and steam coming out of her nostrils.
I just thought it might like be an after effect of the Oxycodone that I had taken for my back pain again tonight, so I didn’t pay any attention to the fangs she developed on the way to my face either.
All joking aside, Gracie is one of the great loves of my life and it is astounding what I can do with this bird (when Katrin isn’t around that is) and she adores me. But I didn’t pay attention and I forgot to play by the rules and I paid for my blunder.
Some lessons need to be learned over and over again and sometimes they hurt.
Going to watch some TV and sulk for the rest of the night and hopefully pass out soon.
Please don't get me wrong and think I am "jumping" on you because I am not, I just hate to see anything happen when it could have been avoided.
I know that there will be some folks that will tell you they had their bird for "x" amount of years and nothing ever happened. Good for them and more power to them for leading a charmed life.
There are others that do not.
Just my two cents for what it's worth.
Hope everything turns out for the three of you.
