Hi Maggie!
I have spent quite a bit of time on your site today, and ordered a copy of your book. I am very much looking forward to receiving it!
My family has just adopted a TAG from a parrot rescue. We are calling him "Wolfgang", or Wolfie for short. He was at the rescue for 2 months, and has been with us for 3 days now.
We are already amazed at what he knows as far as whistling and kissing sounds, and he says some words, but they're hard to understand right now. He's still timid about getting on our hands, but he has made it clear he prefers our hand to a dowel!
Here's my question: Should we cover him at night? Our children go to bed before we do, and we rise before the kids. Once they have gone to bed, it would be very helpful if he were to calm down, and the same in the morning! We had owned a peach faced Lovebird for several years, and he recently passed away. He was an old bird when we received him, and very, very loud. At night, and when there was a lot of stimulus that he was reacting to, we would cover him. Do you think that Wolfie would learn to understand that the cover means quiet time, or would he perceive that as mean? We were told that he came from a home that was trying to breed him by placing him and another TAG in a closet... so you can see why I'm hesitant to possibly re-creating a bad scenario for him. (We do not know if he is actually a "he".) His cage is in our living room, and our home is fairly small, and he has quite a loud voice!
I want to do my best for him, as he will be part of our family for many, many years.
Thanks for your time, and having a site full of information all about Greys!!!
Angie