Chico is amazing wow he’s talking and tying words together now.

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Man Chico is talking more clearly every day he is almost saying words the first time he here’s something he’s a terrible bad mouthing bird now. I can’t stop laughing at the things he says he’s talking too the other birds I have like he’s the boss ordering them around.
 

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Ha ha, we were just talking about your Chico tonight at dinner, because our own Salty spent the afternoon ordering our dog around.
 
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Ha ha, we were just talking about your Chico tonight at dinner, because our own Salty spent the afternoon ordering our dog around.

Ha that’s funny he gets in his moods and just talks shouts then sometimes he just whistles. Would you believe I’ve been trying too teach him to say hello Chico for a year since he was a baby and he still doesn’t say it but says a lot of other words. He knows his name I think he’s just a stubborn grey sometimes.
 

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Perjo's new phrase as of today is "touch my forehead". From day one I've touched nose to her beak and my forehead to her beak saying "touch my forehead" of "touch my nose", and she just decided to bust that phrase out today.

They never cease to amaze or surprise.
 

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hehehe, sounds awesome. Enzo just will not learn new stuff unless she wants to. To be honest I try and teach her tunes, at the moment she's on the Laurel and Hardy theme tune but she just isnt having it, she just makes her own songs up and she's happy with that. Enzo == Stubborn Diva!
 

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What freaks people out is having a bird put together a complete, grammatically-correct English sentence, which is appropriate to the specific circumstances of the moment, having never strung those words together before.

Nobody ever believes it when I tell them about it (they seem to consider parrots as feathered tape recorders), until they finally experience it for themselves. The look on their faces is priceless - that gawking, gaping, deer-in-the-headlights look of utter amazement. Initially, they want to write it off to coincidence. Once they experience it a few more times, they become true "believers".

I have to admit, before we got our CAG "Reno", I was a tiny bit skeptical myself, considering that a lot of what I'd heard was exaggeration. Wow, was I wrong!! When something unusual happens, and he tilts his head to one side & fixes us with that enigmatic stare, we know he's about to say something new, situationally appropriate, & amazing. We're rarely disappointed...
 
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What freaks people out is having a bird put together a complete, grammatically-correct English sentence, which is appropriate to the specific circumstances of the moment, having never strung those words together before.

Nobody ever believes it when I tell them about it (they seem to consider parrots as feathered tape recorders), until they finally experience it for themselves. The look on their faces is priceless - that gawking, gaping, deer-in-the-headlights look of utter amazement. Initially, they want to write it off to coincidence. Once they experience it a few more times, they become true "believers".

I have to admit, before we got our CAG "Reno", I was a tiny bit skeptical myself, considering that a lot of what I'd heard was exaggeration. Wow, was I wrong!! When something unusual happens, and he tilts his head to one side & fixes us with that enigmatic stare, we know he's about to say something new, situationally appropriate, & amazing. We're rarely disappointed...
Exactly what happens with Chico my wife even doubts it when I tell her till he proves her wrong too. Chico is really coming along so naturally now I’m not surprised anymore.:grey:
 

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What freaks people out is having a bird put together a complete, grammatically-correct English sentence, which is appropriate to the specific circumstances of the moment, having never strung those words together before.

Nobody ever believes it when I tell them about it (they seem to consider parrots as feathered tape recorders), until they finally experience it for themselves. The look on their faces is priceless - that gawking, gaping, deer-in-the-headlights look of utter amazement. Initially, they want to write it off to coincidence. Once they experience it a few more times, they become true "believers".

I have to admit, before we got our CAG "Reno", I was a tiny bit skeptical myself, considering that a lot of what I'd heard was exaggeration. Wow, was I wrong!! When something unusual happens, and he tilts his head to one side & fixes us with that enigmatic stare, we know he's about to say something new, situationally appropriate, & amazing. We're rarely disappointed...
Well said. Perjo says "whatch ya doin" like so many parrots say, but she also says "what did you do" and I purposely have a different tone and cadence for those sayings and do not use them interchangeable, I make sure I use the latter when she does something awkward or out of the ordinary. I use the former when I leave the room and just want to know if she's busy. Well she uses them in different contexts now, and my buddy didn't buy it until you saw it. I dropped my car keys on my hardwood floors as we walked out to leave and Perjo says "oops", then 10 seconds later she says "what did you do?". The look on my buddy's face was priceless.
 

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One thing our Grey NEVER does is make the usual "parrot" squawks, cheeps, or other such sounds. Every single utterance is a phrase or sentence, in clear English. Unlike, of course, all the rest of our flock...
 
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One thing our Grey NEVER does is make the usual "parrot" squawks, cheeps, or other such sounds. Every single utterance is a phrase or sentence, in clear English. Unlike, of course, all the rest of our flock...
Yes Chico is the same way except he doesn’t speak each word that clear all of the time he muttles the words and just makes crazy sounds but never squawks. He’s like a noise box he’s something else.
 

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