What are some of the mischievous things your parrot does?

[kme3388]

I just had to zip tie my parrots grate into his cage. He was pushing the grate out, and tearing up the papers on the bottom of the cage. Some of his toys are still untouched. Apparently pushing out a grate is more fun.

I want to hear about other peoples parrots being mischievous to make myself feel better. Yes, I’m at that point

 

[LaManuka]

Don't know if you saw @bug_n_flock's thread, but my Fang has taken to shagging his vegetables. Worse yet, when Fang shags his vegetables, Jem then tries to shag Fang. And then Lovejoy zooms over there to break it all up whilst Peachie looks on in amusement!!

 

[Jcas]

One of my budgies, Grant, used to carry items from my dresser back to the budgie cage. One day I counted eleven items in his cage, including, no joke, my wristwatch. I swear it had to weigh almost as much as him and I still have no idea how he managed that one! One of my new budgies, Buster, seems to be taking after his predecessor. Before I vacuum, I’m always having to pick up Bobby pins, buttons, paper clips etc that he’s thrown off the dresser

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My budgie Elan picks up things much larger than she is and pitches them on the floor. She's a big girl for a budgie- about 60 grams- so she can move pretty big things. I have a 10x6x3 inch plastic container with their seed on top of the cage she shares with 4 other budgies that they feed from all day. I had just cleaned the room thoroughly and put fresh seed in the container for them. The room was super clean. I went to say goodbye to them Thursday morning before we went on a 5 day road trip and dear Ms Elan had pitched the seed container off the cage onto the floor! I didn't see her do it but she's the object tosser of the bunch so I know it was her. I had to revacuum the room, refill the container so they had food for the day and I had to put a weight in the container so she didn't just toss it again. I think she knew I had just cleaned and that we were l leaving and she wanted to make a statement.

This begs the question: Does anyone think our birds have any idea what we are doing when we are vacuuming up their messes and cleaning their cages? My budgies don't get upset when I roll their cages aside and vacuum and wash the floor under the cages. They don't care when I put the vacuum hose into the cage bottom to clean it. They just sit on top of rhe cage and watch. Do you think they aware of what I'm doing? Do you think Elan did that on purpose to make a mess?

 

[Jcas]

My budgie Elan picks up things much larger than she is and pitches them on the floor. She's a big girl for a budgie- about 60 grams- so she can move pretty big things. I have a 10x6x3 inch plastic container with their seed on top of the cage she shares with 4 other budgies that they feed from all day. I had just cleaned the room thoroughly and put fresh seed in the container for them. The room was super clean. I went to say goodbye to them Thursday morning before we went on a 5 day road trip and dear Ms Elan had pitched the seed container off the cage onto the floor! I didn't see her do it but she's the object tosser of the bunch so I know it was her. I had to revacuum the room, refill the container so they had food for the day and I had to put a weight in the container so she didn't just toss it again. I think she knew I had just cleaned and that we were l leaving and she wanted to make a statement.

This begs the question: Does anyone think our birds have any idea what we are doing when we are vacuuming up their messes and cleaning their cages? My budgies don't get upset when I roll their cages aside and vacuum and wash the floor under the cages. They don't care when I put the vacuum hose into the cage bottom to clean it. They just sit on top of rhe cage and watch. Do you think they aware of what I'm doing? Do you think Elan did that on purpose to make a mess?

My budgies seem fascinated with cause and effect. They seem to take great delight in watching how different items tumble and bounce across the floor! I think they just do stuff because it’s fun

 

[rheashard2]

This is the most amusing and annoying thing my CAG has done recently. My daughter obtained kitchen trash container. It had electronic lid, wave hand or item open. The closes. Originally we thought it was 'cute'. Nameliss learned where sensor was; wave beak, open, wait, close and repeat. I put a chair there for her 'play time'. Finally my daughter got upset because I kept making her replace the batteries. The lid was removed and put out of sight. Nameliss occasionally still checks to see for lid.