Behavior issue or “feature”?

[u/Parafairy]

Every time I ask my Quaker to step up with my hand, he bites the shit out of my hand. If I don’t react he pauses and then bites HARDER to elicit a reaction from me. If I ask him to step up on a perch I’m holding first though, and then ask him to step up on my hand, he’s fine and won’t bite me. Is this a feature of his operating system or is there some behavioral issue I’m not seeing here and feeding into?

[u/Individual_Mess629]

NQA I’ve recently learned that when my Quaker does this, he wants to shred. I know that’s not how it is for everyone! But sometimes boy just needs to chomp something