Funny stories

[DonnaBudgie]

My budgies seem to know when we are about to take a trip out of town and leave them with the bird sitter coming to the house twice a day. There's a lot cleaning and other activity before we leave that they seem to pick up on.

 

[Vampiric_Conure59]

More Yvons stories! He's been with me for almost 5 months, and his sound effects have tapered off. I was stiff getting up from the computer chair about 2 weeks ago and said 'ooooooooow' as I got up. Said it twice. He now says it with my nasal inflection. He also says 'Evil Soul.' I wonder if he got it from the ghost shows I watch? Lastly, he makes a falling cartoon noise, and I answer with Splat. My conure, Charlie's learned to say 'splat', LOL!

 

[texsize64]

I bought a Galaxy tablet recently to use for specific games.
When setting it up I set a distinctive alert noise.
Bella has started imitating the new alert noise in a week.

 

[rheashard2]

I was wondering how Yvonn was doing. Especially with the other members of your flock. Half the fun of a parrot that mimics is figuring out what it is and where it comes from. The track down can be frantic if it is annoying. You don't want to reenforces it. The real fun comes in situational mimicking. Example; Screaming and summoning help as a woman in duress while walking along shower rod in a motel. Embarrassing when security and police went knocking room to room looking for said woman. The culprit sitting on perch with a dumb bird expression. I had no idea about that particular mimic. It wasn't done at home. I narrowed it to a couple of movies.

 

[rheashard2]

I bought a Galaxy tablet recently to use for specific games.
When setting it up I set a distinctive alert noise.
Bella has started imitating the new alert noise in a week.

Bella sounds so much like Nameliss. Does she ignore what you encourage her to say? I tried to get Nameliss to call buffalo wings by name. No go. My dad came for a visit. He asked her why she was eating 'cousin' and 'is cousin good'. My dad was here only a few days. Now buffalo wings and drumsticks are cousin. It's amusing and embarrassing at once.

 

[texsize64]

Bella sounds so much like Nameliss. Does she ignore what you encourage her to say? I tried to get Nameliss to call buffalo wings by name. No go. My dad came for a visit. He asked her why she was eating 'cousin' and 'is cousin good'. My dad was here only a few days. Now buffalo wings and drumsticks are cousin. It's amusing and embarrassing at once.

It took her at least 2 years to say “bless you “ for a sneeze despite hearing it constantly.
She’s never learned to say “good morning “ or “good night” but I’m sure she knows what it means.
Yet she learned to say “red butt shower “ quickly.
She learned to say”have to go to work “ quickly and still comes out with it despite being retired 5 years.

She speaks both cockatiel and amazon language.
She will squeak out a cockatiel call and it will start up all the Cockatiels to calling.
Wonder if she is saying something rude to them

 

[rheashard2]

It took her at least 2 years to say “bless you “ for a sneeze despite hearing it constantly.
She’s never learned to say “good morning “ or “good night” but I’m sure she knows what it means.
Yet she learned to say “red butt shower “ quickly.
She learned to say”have to go to work “ quickly and still comes out with it despite being retired 5 years.

She speaks both cockatiel and amazon language.
She will squeak out a cockatiel call and it will start up all the Cockatiels to calling.
Wonder if she is saying something rude to them

Do the other birds act friendly, scared, or irritated? The red tail hawks Nameliss mimics take insult and go into attack mode.

 

[texsize64]

Do the other birds act friendly, scared, or irritated? The red tail hawks Nameliss mimics take insult and go into attack mode.

The Red Tailed Hawk probably thinks someone is invading his territory.

Popeye is the most upset by Bella’s presence.
It’s the girls cage Bella is always trying to (and sometimes succeeding in) opining . They just keep their distance.
Never seen her messing with Cheeky.
She use to break the hooks that hold the food dishes to the cage. Went through quite a few.

 

[rheashard2]

Nameliss talks dog. But not the deep I'm bad talk. She mimics the annoying high pitched don't leave me dog yap. I have to say some form of good Nameliss puppy. I celebrate cause it could be a Chihuahua.

 

[ScottinSoCal]

I bought a Galaxy tablet recently to use for specific games.
When setting it up I set a distinctive alert noise.
Bella has started imitating the new alert noise in a week.

Scooter has learned every appliance in the house (the toaster oven is her favorite) but her latest is the sound our home automation makes when we give it a command.
At night we tell it to turn on the lights in her night room, turn on the porch lights (for her trip outside before bed), and turn off everything else. After each command, it does an acknowledgement sound.
First she learned the sound, then she decided that sound meant bedtime, so now she makes it to signal us she's decided it's bedtime.

 

[rheashard2]

My sister sent Alexa to my daughter. I forbade her to use any commands. I don't mind appliance sounds. Irritating yes but tolerable. My fear is to hear...Alexa turn on lights, Alexa turn off lights. My daughter only asks for weather. Nameliss has been saying Alexa.

 

[texsize64]

My sister sent Alexa to my daughter. I forbade her to use any commands. I don't mind appliance sounds. Irritating yes but tolerable. My fear is to hear...Alexa turn on lights, Alexa turn off lights. My daughter only asks for weather. Nameliss has been saying Alexa.

I bought an Alexa just to see what Bella would do with it.
I use mine for similar purposes on/off a light that’s difficult to reach. Asking about the weather.
Bella does say “Alexa” but usually has a long enough time between the name and any follow up words.
Most of the time Alexa times out.
So far Bella has never given understandable commands but she learns stuff all the time.

 

[rheashard2]

I bought an Alexa just to see what Bella would do with it.
I use mine for similar purposes on/off a light that’s difficult to reach. Asking about the weather.
Bella does say “Alexa” but usually has a long enough time between the name and any follow up words.
Most of the time Alexa times out.
So far Bella has never given understandable commands but she learns stuff all the time.

As smart as Bella is, the question is when not if!

 

[rheashard2]

Met a lady at doctors office for my appointment. Her daughter has a CAG. Got him just barely weaned six years ago. He named himself the sound of a laser gun. When asked that's his response for name. She said that bird was like a grandchild. Her daughter gave her the Alexa unit she had. Seems that particular CAG learned and enjoyed activating things; lights, TV are favorites. He started turning them on at night and early early morning. I told her I understood. That's a fear with my CAG.

 

[Talaya]

I have a short take of how my parrot understand the meaning of a word and applied it to a situation .
We’ve always asked him to drop something, in his beak. usually something he shouldn’t have and most of the time he gives it to us, as we give him a reward for it. Just once in a blue moon, you hear him say the word drop when he is feeling chatty and no one is watching.
When he was younger he was a bit cage territorial, so we would have to let him out, climb In the cage and clean it; with him locked on the outside. One day, he was running back and forth along the top of the cage glaring down at us cleaning it and started saying drop.. drop..drop ..
He was using our request ; back to us,, “drop that cleaning cloth.” What a clever boy, to have learnt what the word meant.. but then to use and apply it to a situation himself, shows complete deeper understanding, he has never said it to us again.. it makes me smile every time I remember this.
Secondly he has learnt that when the cooker alarm goes off, to say food is ready.. i appear from wherever; to fuss over the cooker and make it stop, & then we sit down. He now makes the blinking cooker alarm noise, usually when I’m out of sight.. but louder and it doesn’t stop after 45 seconds. it can go on half an hour.shrill repeating beeps. Just like a referees metal whistle over and over. As soon as I step into the room he stops (even though he can’t see the door)
One of the reasons we liked an Ekkie was because they were meant to make more of a honk noise, now I just have a sentient alarm.

 

[Vampiric_Conure59]

Girls... if you have an African grey (Heck... ANY parrot), watch yer um... boobs. Yvons planted a good one on my chest while I was fixing his cage cover. Little brat.

 

[osklvste63]

Girls... if you have an African grey (Heck... ANY parrot), watch yer um... boobs. Yvons planted a good one on my chest while I was fixing his cage cover. Little brat.

Don't forget the other end!! Bending over cleaning area around cage!!!

 

[osklvste63]

Nameliss anticipates, beats me saying ouch, then laughing as I jump up.

 

[osklvste63]

Why do CAG's and any parrot resist what you want them to learn? Then drive you crazy with others? Had a few weeks of bad thunderstorms with lots of lightning coming through at night. A few lasting hours. Nameliss isn't afraid of storms. I was worried because of the duration. So I started saying softly..Are you alright over there...Are you alright dear.. Now every morning I wake up softly spoken..good morning and one of those phrases. With one of them spoken randomly during the day. Honestly I preferred The Grey Dictator, smoke detectors, and the like. Then I could say shut up. This sweetie doesn't deserve negative response. She repeats it until she gets a response. She's satisfied with a grunt. I stopped that out of fear. At times I wish parrots had a rewind like old cassettes that you could tape over.

 

[osklvste63]

I'm sitting here waiting for lights out. When Nameless started bobing her head and saying ..ooo, whachee. coo.. whaachhee... coo... oo. oo.. It had to be from a trip because of a faint Hispanic accent. Since she's gotten that travel carrier and gone places her vocabulary has started increasing.