List the ways you play with your parrot.

[wrench13]

I thought it might be fun, and informative for everyone to list the way that you play with your parrot. Games, fun interactions, or just silly little thing you do to enrich the time with your bird. Not training regimine or routines - just fun things.

1) Rough play in my lap - Salty loves it ( most times)
2) Peek a boo, either with a towel or just my hand
3) Play catch or kill the ball, call it what you will
4) Tug o war with a tissue

Lets hear yours ! I know I am always up for learning new games!

 

[Scott]

1- Cuddling! My toos love to cuddle, it is magical experience to have one on each shoulder and one clasped on the chest.

2- Tug of war with a rope is hilarious!

 

[Kiwibird]

1. "Beak wrestling" where he play-chomps us and we grab the beakie. Kind of like the bird version of thumb wrestling.

2. The whistle game, where he makes the first half of the wolf whistle and expects you to make the second half. Typically a game he likes to play while watching you shower (what our neighbors must think).

3. Also likes to sit in my lap and just kind of mess with little objects. I'll bring over some (too large to swallow) buttons, beads, legos etc... and just pretend play with them myself, roll them around in my fingers within his reach which leads to him taking great joy in stealing them from me He then thoroughly explores them with his beak and tongue, which I love watching. As explores with the mouth, his eyes go all crazy and you just have to wonder what's going through his head at that moment as it's clear he's having some kind of intense thinking or learning going on.

 

[GaleriaGila]

The funniest thing lately is that he loves to interact using these little plastic links. He absolutely must have one in his beak all the time, like a weird little Labrador Retriever. He then likes to tap me with it, tap my shoulder or chin with it, and then sometimes he likes to get me to kiss it. At about 20 seconds, he does this by pushing it to my lips 5-6 times for me to kiss it. Little weirdo! It just makes me giggle!

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJc4EwlVQE"]rickeybirdproductions - yellow link - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Flboy]

Hey, this is a nice thread to start! It can really help all of us improve our relationships with our companion(s)!
My two games at the moment, are, kill the ball, and become a jet plane! When JoJo gets in a flying mode, he starts doing loops room to room up landing on the lights landing on the fans (off)and then comes back to me!

 

[wrench13]

Keep 'em coming! I will try the beak wrestling and the small toys.
I forgot

5) Running my fingers up to him ,making like a small, fast spider. He will run up to it, then run back to where he was.

 

[GaleriaGila]

These are all so freakin' cute.
I'm sittin' over here goin' 'AWWWWWWWW' over and over...
We are all so enchanted with our birds.

There's a saying... about dogs, but I'm changing it to parrots.

"There is only one best parrot in the world, and every owner has it."

 

[GaleriaGila]

P.S.
Al, check your messages!

 

[Teknogeddon]

Funny enough after seeing Ricky play with those links for the first time and learning about C-Links being dangerous, I bought a big tub of them to hang toys and things with. I wonder what she'll think of them, considering a I have a literal butt-load. They're rather amusing to chain stuff with.

 

[GaleriaGila]

The ones I buy are for kids... non-toxic plastic, etc. Metal C-links should be stainless... he likes them too, but not as much.
I have a link if you want it.
I love them, and so does he!
I think you have to be sure to observe to make sure they aren't eating them.
But after you're confident, they're great. They're the ONLY toy he doesn't destroy. He LIKES them.

 

[KrisandPenelope]

P loves to play throw her toys off the computer desk. So while we work we line up all her toys that she can just fling right off the desk her favorite right now are the colored rings i bought to teach her colors...she'd rather just throw them! Best part about it is she laughs every time she throws something off. She also loves to have dance parties and play hide and seek! I'll run to a different portion of the house and she comes flying to find me.

 

[JBassset]

We play "soccer"

He has a pile of ping pong balls. I suspect it's a lot like Salty's Kill the Ball.

I used Legos to build him a small frame to play in. That way he doesn't smack them across the house every time he gets one. (Just half of the time)

I knew I had a video of "Stephen Soccer" [ame="https://youtu.be/E6XcTVPSXPc"]VID 20161015 192229 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[OutlawedSpirit]

Chicken loves to play the "lets see if mommy can keep me out of trouble" game. Most of our morning are spent with her trying to get into stuff, and me trying to keep her out of it. She thinks it's great fun, me not so much.

 

[Kentuckienne]

Gus plays tug of war with paper towels. If I hold up a piece of stiff paper, he will tear pieces off until it's all gone. He picks up tossed sock balls and pitches them. Digs through warm laundry, and let's you pile it on him so he can burrow out, then pick up small items to toss. We are gradually learning what he enjoys - he must have been well socialized at one point and knows lots of things he can't tell us.