Help with attitude change?

[Tom Lawless]

He is basically acting like a spoiled 2-year old,

Yup. That about sums it up although some say they have the cognitive abilities of a three year old. No matter how you slice it you are living with a perpetual toddler. I don't think you spoiled him but I think the first two week 'honeymoon' period is over and he's starting to see what he can get away with. My guys have their wings trimmed so they can't keep flying to me. Instead my little Hahns used to walk on the floor to get to me. That was dangerous. He is small and one misstep would kill him so I had to keep returning him to his cage. It was tiresome at first but I can say he almost never does it anymore. He sticks to his cage unless I am so close he can jump on me (I let him get away with that...that might be spoiling).

Please don't think you created a monster or that this is how it will always be. He will test you but as he gets to the routine, the rules of the house and more comfortable with you it will get easier. When I got Bing there were days in the beginning when I wondered what I had gotten myself into but it did calm down and fairly quickly. Every now and then I will have a day or a couple of days where one of the guys acts like a total monster (as opposed to a partial monster) but then whatever is going on passes and he becomes sweet (parrot sweet) again.

Good luck and don't lose faith.

[Luisa]

As with any type of behavior modification...the behavior will worsen before it gets better. If you go back to letting him stay on you when he flys over...even once, yu make the behavior even harder to get rid of. Be consistent.

[alwaysontimneh]

Our Tag is a little older then your guy and he does the digging if we put him in his cage when we have to do something like cooking and he use to cry. He also would fly/jump of his playtop if we were to leave him up there but we started to just leave him on the ground and even though he would come running for our feet we would ignore him and after being there a little bit we would put him back on the play top and he would for the most part stay up there. We also let him sit on the back of our sofa(with a sheet covering it) and look out the window. After he jumps off and you have put him on a perch by the third time I say put him back in his cage even if he cries and tries to dig but if you ignore him and as soon as you finish get him out he will learn that you will always come back for him.