And you know what I'm talkin about. Both my U2 and my M2 just love toes and will go out of their way and do what they have to in order to get to them. If I'm laying on the couch, it is Rico's mission to get to my feet if he can. I always have to lay on the couch with my feet under a blanket.

Rocky, well he just sees them as a couple of sausages for him as his after dinner treat.

I had a question a while back about my concern with toweling a bird. One of the members here responded to me that she had heard that the bird does not identify you with the towel. With my experiences with Rocky, I agree with her. This sent me wondering on the toe thing too. Is it possible that our toos don't correlate our toes with us? This is the only thing I've been able to come up with so far that makes any sense. Our toes are way down there and wiggling and stuff and for the most part, when our birds, well mine I should say, when they are interacting with us, it's usually with our upper body. Could it be that they do not associate our toes, way down there at the other end of our body with us?

I would love to hear other people's responses. If anyone here has a too that does the same thing, could you tell us what kind of too it is? If you have a too and it does not do this, would you also share with us what kind of too it is?

I don't have a too...but I have 2 birds with toe fetishes! Dakota likes to sit on my feet and kiss my toes (such a sweet boy!), and ornery Ollie likes to bite them! I think it's all about the reaction- she likes to hear me yelp and giggle!

I think she knows they're attached to me. Her favorite time to get them is when I'm laying on the bed. She'll fly down to the foot of the bed (where she knows they are) and crawl under the covers to find them. Thank goodness she doesn't like to be on the floor like your guys or I'd have to start wearing tennis shoes all around the house!

LOL, no toos here either, but a toe lover... valo loves to nibble on toes, not just mine but on toes in general... and though he starts kind of nicely it usually leads to quite some bity-interest.... i've wondered the same thing, whether he actually knows that he's chewing on ME, but i'm not sure about it.... it could also just be the fact that i usually react at some point in time, but that doesn't mean he relates it to them being attached to me..... good question, and i'm sure i didnt' contribute much with my post LOL

I don't get bitten toes, but they will find my toes/feet and climb up to my shoulder from the floor. It could possibly be that the lower body is just a tree trunk to climb.

No Too experience here, Lara, but I think that's more than possible. Some behaviorists say that about hands. Specifically, they say that birds bond with our faces, not our hands, which is part of the reason fingers and hands get bitten so often. The hand is seen as either a threat or a competitor. If there's any credence to that theory (and I think there might be), why wouldn't the same thing apply to toes?

That definitely isn't the case with Ollie. She immediately knows the difference between my hands and anybody else's. Bf and I have tried to trick her in the past so he'd be able to touch her, but it doesn't work.

Calvin (Shamrock Macaw) loves my toes. He sleeps with me and finds it necessary during at least one part of the evening to go under the covers and try to chew my toes.... all the while saying "stop".

Lara, I think that's a very strong possibility. My gangsters don't seem to think of all my body parts as belonging to one whole. Abigail interacts nicely with my face and one hand at a time. The second hand brings bigggggg problems. My lovebirds never seemed to treat my toes as part of my body. Ouch!!!

Kady was like that when I first got him. My right hand was fine and the left one wasn't tolerated anywhere near him. He's fine about both hands now though.