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When I attempted to get her on my hand I would receive a very hard bite, she certainly wasn’t beaking, or steadying her balance; these were blood drawing bites!! How could a baby Amazon bite so hard when all we had heard was that they were cuddly, loving birds??


love her, and to be loved by her. Eventually it got to the point where I dreaded getting Molly out, and yet she was so keen to come out!! I therefore had to put layers of clothes on under my jumper, and sadly even resorted to gloves of which she took no notice!!! I banned the children, and husband from coming into the room where she was out, this wasn’t to protect her, but to protect my family from the hard, blood drawing bites, I also didn’t want to be bitten anymore. As you can imagine this caused a great deal of tension within the family, many times I would be told to get rid of that’ nasty bird‘!!! The situation became so desperate, that I decided to call a well


known Parrot expert. We had a long chat, she did give me some good advice but she stressed that she had not come across this behaviour at such a young age, she advised me whether I should think of re homing her as an Aviary bird, but definitely not as a companion bird. I was heart broken at the thought of possibly having to do this, it worried me that if I did re home her; what would become of her? Despite the fact that she bit me so bad I still loved her so much. Being determined not to give up on her I set about researching for hours on the internet, some advice was good but so many things did not work. I tried all that there was to try,


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