Our Birds May Be Smarter Than We Think...

[SharonC]

Today, I did a thorough cleaning on four fish tanks. I was quite busy, so birds didn't get the attention that they normally do.

After supper, I put Fred on his playstand, so he could look out the window. I asked Ken to sit with him and to keep him from flying off until I finished cleaning up the kitchen and his sleep cage. While I was doing the cage, in the sleep room, Fred wanted to leave the stand, but Ken kept moving in front of him, trying to distract him. Fred kept saying Bye...Bye Bye...Bye...I think he was telling Ken to go away. Last week when we were at my parents, Fred often said Bye...Bye Bye. In retrospect, I think he wanted all the strange people to go away...maybe he even wanted to go home.

This means that Fred assesses the situation, and comes up with a solution. Then he vocalizes that solution in words that his people understand. Pretty smart, I'd say!!!

Ken jokingly tells people that we registered him for Kindergarten...but they sent him home, because he was much smarter than the rest of the class!!!

 

[bogo1]

My old Sam who died this spring used to try all sorts of tricks to delay bedtime. At age 30 and after 21 years with us, Sam had some pretty good tricks. One of her favorite techniques was toemit four beeps at the pitch of the microwave oven so as to get someone to come past her sleep cage in the dining room to see what was up in the kitchen. She had various extras on that like making the sound of popcorn at the end of the cycle or yelling "get that please". When you would go by her cage she would hear the squeaky floor board and say hopefully, "too sad!" to try to get out. And the kids would often uncover her had give her a little extra play time. (I never did, ahem....)

So, after a while we Pavlov dogs stopped acting on cue. So we started having problems with Jolte one of our cats. Jolte would be frantically meowing to go out on the back deck. I would recognize the urgency and come in to let him out the dining room door. But where was the silly animal? Sam of course, hearing the squeak would say, "too sad?" and I (ahem....almost always) ignored him. Then, one night, I heard Jolte's plea from the dining room when the cat in question was comfortably zoned out on my husband's chest in our bedroom. (They were both snoring.) I picked up the sleepy cat and padded into the dining room, flipping on the light. Sam apparently thought the light coming on was a good sign and when I lifted her cover she was in the midst of "too sad" when she saw the cat in my arms. I swear, she looked a bit chagrined. I cocked my head and said, " the jigs up, Sam!" Sam looked at me one more second then turned away against her snuggly. I covered her cage. I hadn't taken two steps when the "microwave alarm" went off.

 

[nofearengineer]

Definite LOL material there.

I'm ashamed to admit Gandalf learned a rather "saucy" vocabulary. Come on, cut me some slack...I was a young single man in a rock band. I didn't purposefully teach him the stuff...he just sort of picked it up on his own...you know how that works.

Well, one day, my mother came to visit. Gandalf loved my mother to the point of being almost speechless. I say "almost", because when she turned and walked down the hall to go home...he did the wing flapping and yelled "F-ing B...!!"...very loud.

My mother turned around, jaw dropped, and Gandalf said in his sweetest voice, "well, cummeeeer!" We both laughed for a long time over that one. She still reminds me of it when I see her.

I don't think for a moment he didn't understand every bit of what he said.

 

[bogo1]

OOOHmy! My son, Peter, heard me laughing out loud at Gandolf and your mom and came in to hear what I thought was so funny. I let him read over my shoulder. Oddly, although he laughed, he said, so mom, you know that time you thought that the gray parrot you were fostering taught Sam to say" Sh** happens" ? I said, yes, I remember, it took a long time, several years, in fact, to get Sam to forget that phrase after the Gray went home. "Well," Peter just said, "It might have taken Sam a while to forget because we were secretly egging her on when you weren't home." But, "Peter added quickly" you can't be mad at me, if you thought this engineer guy was so funny!"

 

[Dj tweet]

Lol
all of you
my ringneck x moustache I had for 5 yes was called gucci
well of cause my partner thought hoochi was better and called him that
along with the song

So were out one day and this bird never talks in public
blow me down with a feather if this bird don't start singing it right as a half dressed woman walked past ( you know the type boobs overflowing the inch of material they call a top and a skirt so short the soon be powdering 2 sets of cheeks lol )
gee did I get such a dirty look
I swear she would punched me if she hadn't if seen the bird start singing it again

Thankfully she just laughed

 

[bogo1]

These are fun!

 

[JawzX]

haha! Ms. Beak's vocabulary isn't up to these standards, but she definitely knows that "what are you doing?" is a question... When I leave the room, the first response from her are her "come here" whistles and then a "klaxon call" or two, and if she still gets no response she likes, out comes "Hi Buddy, what are you doing?" if I'm in the room with her and she's being talkative I get "hi Buddy!", "Helloooo!" -that one is particularly cute- and "Pretty birdy!" unless I'm doing something she wants to be part of, and then it's "what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing?"

I crack up every time I hear her voice, its just sooooo cute!