chris-md
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- Feb 6, 2010
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Parker - male Eclectus
Aphrodite - red throated conure (RIP)
I swear Parker has some nasty Amazon in him:
Parker has a stunning vocabulary but is a closet talker, only talks for attention when you aren't in the room. I've been determined to get his talking into the open, and I got my chance tonight to reinforce he hell out of it.
Parkers been talking a bit lately at night as I'm putting him to bed, kind of a "I don't wanna go to bed dad!" I was pulling him to go sit on the shower rod while I shower, a dark route from the living room this time of night. He must have thought he was going to bed because he started talking. I happen to be in the kitchen...BINGO!!! I grabbed some spaghetti noodles from dinner that he was going nuts over earlier and gave him some whenever he said something, and he had plenty to say. We had a real rapport going until...
I pull him to his play stand, he says "up up!" So I put him on his playstand. He repeats,"up up!", I hold my hand out to pick him up (teaching context!) he grabs me with one foot, then THE LITTLE *ISH* NAILS ME ON MY THUMB KNUCKLE! Full beak-full all the way around the knuckle. Needless to say he was thrown into his cage for the night. Little bastard...
I thought only amazons pulled that trickery crap! And this was the second time he bit me today, first time in months. Maybe hormones are kicking in or something. Lord, if he starts this "come pick me up! I bite you now!" crap he'll find himself on a spit with worstershire sauce.
Parker has a stunning vocabulary but is a closet talker, only talks for attention when you aren't in the room. I've been determined to get his talking into the open, and I got my chance tonight to reinforce he hell out of it.
Parkers been talking a bit lately at night as I'm putting him to bed, kind of a "I don't wanna go to bed dad!" I was pulling him to go sit on the shower rod while I shower, a dark route from the living room this time of night. He must have thought he was going to bed because he started talking. I happen to be in the kitchen...BINGO!!! I grabbed some spaghetti noodles from dinner that he was going nuts over earlier and gave him some whenever he said something, and he had plenty to say. We had a real rapport going until...
I pull him to his play stand, he says "up up!" So I put him on his playstand. He repeats,"up up!", I hold my hand out to pick him up (teaching context!) he grabs me with one foot, then THE LITTLE *ISH* NAILS ME ON MY THUMB KNUCKLE! Full beak-full all the way around the knuckle. Needless to say he was thrown into his cage for the night. Little bastard...
I thought only amazons pulled that trickery crap! And this was the second time he bit me today, first time in months. Maybe hormones are kicking in or something. Lord, if he starts this "come pick me up! I bite you now!" crap he'll find himself on a spit with worstershire sauce.
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