Anyone want to brag abot their Parrots ? I know i do LOL

[PaigeHgibson]

if anyone has a story they want to tell abut a beloved feathered friend i would love to hear it

 

[WoodlandWoman]

One day I made myself a glass of herbal iced tea. I let my parrot have a drink out of the glass, before I had any. He grabbed one of the ice cubes in the glass and flew back to his cage with it! He landed on top, carefully climbed down to his water bowl and deposited the ice cube in the bowl. He played with that ice cube until it finally melted away! He picked it up and dropped it back in, with a splash. He pushed it around and under the water with his beak. He really had a great time!

 

[PaigeHgibson]

LOL that is too funny !

 

[duckncover]

Oh once me and Paco were at the park playing on the jungle gym. A little kid walked up to me and said "Hi, what's his name?" Before I could say anything Paco flapped his wings and Screamed "PACCOOOOOOO". The kid was beyond amazed and went and got his friends. Unfortunately Paco did what parrots do best and made a fool out of the kid because he wouldn't say it again in front of his friends.

Oh and the time when I had Caesar (Umbrella cockatoo I was fostering) out at the same park and he was in his aviator harness and flew and landed right on the "no pet's in park" sign and started laughing.

That's all I can think of right now but I may update with one or two more.

 

[Caat]

I have an African Grey named Guen aka Puss. As a young bird she would wak through her pooh at the bottom of her cage so I would pick her up bring her to the sink and tell her I was washing her pooh-foot. From time to time I would allow her to sit on my shoulder and I would kiss her (i'd say "kiss") so one day she decided to put her newly washed foot on my lips and said "Kiss the Pooh foot!"

-every once in a while she'll be sitting on one of her perches and declare the following:
-I'm a pooh-pooh Bird! (she made that one up her self)
- Da Puss! (but she extends the U sound for a few seconds)
- MY Mer-mer (we have a Senegal Parrot named Merlin aka Mer-mer)

If hubby gets upset he doesn't have to swear she'll do it for him!

After taking the birds to the vet's for their check up (3.5 hrs away from home) We decided to go through a coffee shop drive through, I placed our order and was told to pull up at the window. I did so, rolled down my window and the girl asked me a yes or no question... From the back seat comes a very loud and clear "Oh for F***sake's No!" it was the funniest thing we'd ever heard from her, timing and "attitude" we perfect!!!!!

that's it for now! can't wait to hear stories from others!

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I had to read this to my husband, because he wanted to know why I was laughing so hard!

 

[AquaEyes]

Sammy, my DYHA (see my avatar pic...he's on my head), understands when I ask him "wanna come take showa?" and has his own way of saying "yes" or "no" by volunteering to step up right after I ask him, or going back into his cage. I know it sounds crazy, but hear me out.

When I take him in the shower with me, he waits on the shower curtain rod until I'm done with soap and shampoo, then I bring him into the tub. When he actively bathes, he opens his wings, rolls his head around, etc. It's obvious he wants to be there. When he's not "actively bathing", he just sits still and lets the water hit his back, or he walks to where the water doesn't fall on him at all.

Here's the scientific part -- when I ask him, and he goes back into the cage to say "no", if I then get him anyway and bring him in with me, he NEVER actively bathes. He'll only actively bathe if he steps on my hand willingly after I ask him. Sometimes he gets really into it, sometimes only for a short while, but when he comes "voluntarily" he'll always open his wings at least for a short time under the water.

OK, sometimes I don't bring him in with me. Usually, I don't have time (he sometimes wants to be in the shower for fifteen minutes), so I don't even ask him. If I don't ask, and he happens to want to come in the shower, he'll call me over and over....until I come out and get him, and when he comes in, he ALWAYS actively bathes. Every once in a blue moon, he'll fly to the floor by the bathroom and walk through the door on his own.

You could say that the sound of water running stimulates him to want to bathe, but then I'd ask why he doesn't just bathe in his water dish (like he does every so often if he wants a bath and I'm at school or work). The water dish is closer. Instead, he is stimulated to bathe, and seeks the shower. And if you can dismiss it altogether, that's fine. I've lived with him for almost 13 years now, so I already know he's a smart boy.

 

[Caat]

I totally get it. Guen will at times do things despite being unhappy about do it, BUT man oh man will she ever let you know that she's mad <insert biting here>! If she does want to comply, she'll step-up just like you Amazon. Birds are funny that way...

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

I have a 5 year old Blue crown conure named Cooper!! He is VERY talkative!! He loves to talk on the phone to my mom (Nana) but the funniest story i have is one very warm day a few summers ago i had cooper in front of an open window...i was busy doin laundry and such so i wasn't really paying a whole lot of attention....anyways the ups man pulled in and stepped up onto the front porch and cooper proceeded to introduce himself "Im Cooper I'm a stud" My daugher taught him to say ima stud instead of pretty bird...anyway the ups man was like hello? Cooper proceeded to say Cooper step up?? Hello, Im a stud!! Kiss me!!! Kiss Me ...I love you!! So i came around the corner to hear this man laughing hysterically on my front porch...so i took cooper out to show him who it was tht was talking to him!!

 

[Caat]

that'sw super cute!