IndySE
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I'm completely smitten with her, there's no hope !
I brought home Kermit over a year ago. I did the research. I knew basically what to expect, and I knew parrots could easily become aggressive and nasty if mishandled/hormones.
I don't want to jinx it, but... I've yet to have a day where I ever regret bringing her home. She's adorable ! I don't know if all conures are this smart, but we've taught her so many impromptu games. She LOVES the game "kisses"; she'll ask us for kisses, we make a lip smacky sound, and she reaches out to kiss your cheek. Sometimes she tells us thank you. We just taught her pee-ka-boo. She'll deep her head down for the "pee" part, then come up fast for the "ka-boo" (and says this part very very softly). She has a hard time stringing the two parts together, so sometimes she'll just do one or the other, or just the motions. I just taught her "taptaptap". No idea how I taught it to her, honestly... it must have been something I did once or twice that she does on her own now. She'll lovingly beak drag her beak across my hands. She'll sway her body if I dance so she can dance along. She makes microwave beeps whenever we go to the kitchen, and lord help me every time I have to push some of the buttons for her because she asked so nicely. She plays with everyone in the family and occasionally rotates favorites, but has never been outright mean to someone for very long.
That isn't to say she has her days where she doesn't want to come out of her cage. She does, and she's given me a nasty bite once or twice. But thus far the good has outweighed the bad. She's more than a pet and I feel fullfilled having her as my companion for many long years. I don't think I've done anything special, I just think she's a good egg <3
I brought home Kermit over a year ago. I did the research. I knew basically what to expect, and I knew parrots could easily become aggressive and nasty if mishandled/hormones.
I don't want to jinx it, but... I've yet to have a day where I ever regret bringing her home. She's adorable ! I don't know if all conures are this smart, but we've taught her so many impromptu games. She LOVES the game "kisses"; she'll ask us for kisses, we make a lip smacky sound, and she reaches out to kiss your cheek. Sometimes she tells us thank you. We just taught her pee-ka-boo. She'll deep her head down for the "pee" part, then come up fast for the "ka-boo" (and says this part very very softly). She has a hard time stringing the two parts together, so sometimes she'll just do one or the other, or just the motions. I just taught her "taptaptap". No idea how I taught it to her, honestly... it must have been something I did once or twice that she does on her own now. She'll lovingly beak drag her beak across my hands. She'll sway her body if I dance so she can dance along. She makes microwave beeps whenever we go to the kitchen, and lord help me every time I have to push some of the buttons for her because she asked so nicely. She plays with everyone in the family and occasionally rotates favorites, but has never been outright mean to someone for very long.
That isn't to say she has her days where she doesn't want to come out of her cage. She does, and she's given me a nasty bite once or twice. But thus far the good has outweighed the bad. She's more than a pet and I feel fullfilled having her as my companion for many long years. I don't think I've done anything special, I just think she's a good egg <3
