Hi everyone!
I think I am in too deeply emotionally with my pet to be objective, so if you have any input on a remedy for this little beastie, I would appreciate it!

Satori is a 4 year old Cockatoo(Lesser Sulphur) who is very outgoing, affectionate, playful, energetic and unfortunately quite aggressive at times. He is very talkative for his species(he can say about 30 words and can mix words together in sentances a bit) and he is allowed to freely run about and play as long as someone is home to watch him.
He loves to imitate as all cockatoos do, and he also loves to destroy toys, which all cockatoos enjoy, so this is normal behaviour.

Most of the time he is wonderful, but sometimes he tries to bite us, and he will almost always try to bite a visitor. If he does bite, he does it very hard, so that it bleeds and we scream! I now have several scars, despite Ledum!!
I think he enjoys the excitement of people screaming after he bites as he sort of imitates it.

He is quite sneaky and will try to trick us by holding a toy on top of the object he really wants to destroy(ie a shoe) , then he will wait for us to look away and start chewing the shoe as fast as he can!

The biting can take place at any time, but worse if we are wearing long sleeves(for some reason) and he often tries to bite me as I leave the apartment if someone else is there with him.

In addition, he screams loudly if we leave his frame of sight but are still in the house. When we leave the apartment, he doesn't scream too much.

The only thing I really have a problem with is the biting, if I was not really careful with him he would bite me much more. He bites people less who are more aggressive towards him....he will try to bite smaller/shorter/less aggressive people more then someone who yells at him. He is not afraid of much, if someone comes up to him yelling at him trying to scare him he doesn't even flinch but imitates them in a cheeky way.

He is afraid of new objects that he hasn't seen before but after a few moments will lose his fear and will try to destroy it.

FAvourite foods are cheese, bread, french fries, candy/licorice(basically favourite human snacks - he prefers the same things teenagers would!). also liikes almonds, and will eat lots of parrot pellets too! Loves food and eats a lot....when he wants something you are eating will not rest until he gets it or will outright steal it.
Loves fresh cold water. Afraid of the shower at first then enjoys it immensely each time he goes in. No health problems whatsoever.

Have tried hyos, stram, cham, nux-v, phos, tarent
with no results! seemed to get even more hyper after phos!!

Please help, if you have any suggestions! I love this little cockatoo and he is going to live for 60yrs so I would love to get rid of this biting problem!
Thanks
DrFiona

Oh yes, also meant to mention that he is very affectionate and loves to get kisses and have a fuss made over him. If you sit on the couch he will immediately hop over to sit on your lap and demand to be petted and kissed and have his feathers preened. Makes a kissing sound when you give him a kiss on the beak.
Thanks again!!!
DrFiona

Dr Fiona,

It certainly is hard to interpret behavior without seeing it in person, but, one of my first thoughts was jealousy....and the aggressive behavior could possibly give you the rubric jealousy with rage...if you agree, I would read Lachesis... Denise

Hi Denise...
Thanks for your suggestion, I never really thought of him as being jealous, but now that you say it, I think he might be. I'll look into the remedy for him further..It's hard to see those things when it's your own pet!!
Thanks again
Fiona

Hi Fiona,

The remedies that come tomy mind were LAchesis, Varatrum and BEll (in the rubrics too).

So you could differentiate wtih hot and chilly etc.

IF Denise saw Lachesis too, that could be it!
Reagrds,
Doctorleela

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Thanks guys!
Actually I already tried Bell (forgot to mention that one!), but I will try either verat or lach....he is neither hot nor chilly, most birds are more on the chilly side as his species is a tropical one and I would say he is about a perfect temperature for his species! I'm really not sure about the jealousy thing...any suggestions for differentiating between lach and verat? Nothing unusual about him except for what I have mentioned above! I'd prefer not to use the wrong one as he seems to get even more energetic and aggressive after wrong remedies!
Thanks again
Fiona

Dr Fiona,
You mention in your description that this bird is very talkative and better at it than most birds of his kind...Lach is much stronger in loquacity than Verat (Synthesis Rep) can you define this loquacity in a more specific way to see if that helps differintiate between the two? Denise

Hi Denise!
I believe that Lach might be the one, but do you think if I give it that he will become less talkative? I hope not, because this is one of the most amazing things about him! What do you think?
Thanks!
Fiona

Dr Fiona,
Yes, if the remedy is correct I think it is possible that he will talk less...I have always thought this was an interesting obstacle to treatment - sometimes symptoms are a seeming attribute - BUT, if disease continues to progress will you get the 60 years you spoke of, and will they be filled with an aggressive biting disposition, or worse???? Denise

Good point Diane....it will be hard if he talks less as it is very cute, but it is better than biting and being aggressive...I'm going to give him Lach30C and see what happens....