What are some of the mischievous things your parrot does?

[rheashard2]

Yvons is starting to tell me and the dog and the other birds to 'SHUT UP!'... I knew this day would come, but dang...

What type of voice does he use? Nameliss ranges from resignation to deep growly and threat is eminent voice range.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

What type of voice does he use? Nameliss ranges from resignation to deep growly and threat is eminent voice range.

Yvons is usually low and growly, like me when the dog is a pest with her yapping, LOL! Other times, he just sounds BORED. TO. DEATH.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I don't know if I'd call it mischievous but my handraised female budgie Joey is very oversexed as I've described previously. Today she picked up a blue plastic Pepsi cap, one of her toys, flew over to me and dropped it on my lap mid flight. She landed on top of her cage a few feet away and looked at me. I picked it up and gave it back to her. Then she arched her back and rested her chin on the cage top, raised her tail and pinned her eyes at me! Oh, dear! JOEY! I'm not your boyfriend! The poor girl wants it so bad! Fortunately her female cagemate Cora isnt responding to her efforts at seduction but I must keep Joey away from all male budgies. She isn't normal and I feel sorry for her. I hope she doesn't start laying eggs again like she did ack in April when she was only 6 months old.

 

[rheashard2]

it could be a bit worse. How about your dog bringing you a freshly dead opossum? Or cat bringing you Texas sized roaches? Both radiating pride of their accomplishment. I think I'd prefer a soda cap.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

It's not the soda cap that bothered me- she can bring me presents any time- it's the seduction attempt! She's in a perpetual state of hormonal and I don't know what to do about it. Its been going on for 5 months since she hit puberty.

 

[kme3388]

There is 1 word that i can say when my mischievous parrot is out of his cage, and will make him waddle back to his cage instantly. Bath! Blue has a strong dislike for water. When I first brought him home I’d talk out loud to him about bath time. I did my best to make it fun. All he learned is the word, and how to avoid it.

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

When I roll Juliette's cage from room to room her favorite thing to do is run back and forth to try to nibble the fingers moving the cage. She thinks its a great game, and she's quite good at it, especially if there's a dark hallway. You have to be very fast and move your hands in different places continuously or you are beaked and lose the game.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My budgie Rocky is the opposite. Every time I walk to the kitchen sink and turn on the water she and Beau fly over and land right overhead on the top of the cabinets and look down on me because Rocky wants a bath. I have to hold a small plate under the tap spray while she slowly luxuriates in her bath while Beau watches. She would bathe three times a day if I was willing to hold her plate for 15 to 20 minutes each time! She doesn't even let Beau join her- he just gets to watch. She's such a Diva! She won't bathe in still water. Blue must have had a bad experience with water before you adopted her.

 

[kme3388]

My budgie Rocky is the opposite. Every time I walk to the kitchen sink and turn on the water she and Beau fly over and land right overhead on the top of the cabinets and look down on me because Rocky wants a bath. I have to hold a small plate under the tap spray while she slowly luxuriates in her bath while Beau watches. She would bathe three times a day if I was willing to hold her plate for 15 to 20 minutes each time! She doesn't even let Beau join her- he just gets to watch. She's such a Diva! She won't bathe in still water. Blue must have had a bad experience with water before you adopted her.

Blue is moving at snail speed when it comes to water. He screamed bloody murder, and kept trying to fly away when I originally using a spray bottle when I first adopted him. You would think he was being murdered with how reactive he was to the spray bottle. So I brought his stand in the bathroom, and just steamed up the bathroom with the shower curtain closed. Then I started opening the shower curtain bit by bit. Now he is on a stand that has suction cups in the shower. He gets a little spritz of water. I keep moving the water closer to him. The water bottle is out, and for whatever reason Blue completely has a melt down if one is in his presence. Nico wasn’t a fan of water either but he wasn’t that reactive. My conures play in water.

 

[Dunny]

A lot of cute stories here. I wonder if most birds have a sense of humor.

I like to think so. Itsy likes to show off and make us laugh too. She's learned that climbing and hanging upside down gives us a chuckle.
And speaking of mischievous, sometimes, when having Dunny step up to my hand, he will reach out with a talon, then his beak, as he normally does, but then give me a quick playful nip. He immediately pulls back and beeps at me. "Gotcha!"
Our play time sometimes includes chasing my hand with playful nips, and my chasing him with a soft talon poke - a back and forth.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My birds have never liked being sprayed with a spray bottle but they do like it when I use my hand to direct the spray at them when they bathe at the kitchen faucet. I think the spray bottle shooting any water at them scares them. They don't understand it.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

The four female budgies that live in a big cage on my enclosed porch are BAD GIRLS! They emptied their large seed dispenser onto the floor of the cage! They kicked all that seed out, wasting it! No consideration for all the starving birds in India at all! If I fed them Harrisons pellets I'd go broke!
Just so ypu know, they also get a bowl of chop every morning and fresh greens.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

Yvons isn't super michevous. He'll lunge for me, though, if I'm by the cage and he doesn't want me by it. Or if he's on top of the cage and I'm leaning over, he'll go for my hair. A running commentary on my hairstyle? .

Oh, wait... I forgot he likes to tip over his food bowls, too, when feeding the dog pellets.

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

The four female budgies that live in a big cage on my enclosed porch are BAD GIRLS! They emptied their large seed dispenser onto the floor of the cage! They kicked all that seed out, wasting it! No consideration for all the starving birds in India at all! If I fed them Harrisons pellets I'd go broke!
Just so ypu know, they also get a bowl of chop every morning and fresh greens.
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Now that's what we call The BAD SEED!!

 

[Impeckable]

My cockatiel Coral is convinced that my laptop is his personal throne. Without fail, every single time I switch on my laptop, he'll fly or trot over from wherever he was and then sit smack dab in the middle of my keyboard. If I even dare to type while he's sitting on it, it's game over. He'll start chasing my fingers across the keyboard and nipping at them until I stop. Apparently, typing is NOT allowed when the king is in session

 

[rheashard2]

Well yesterday, Nameliss was in vicious dog mode. Barking, growling, rumble growls, and more barking. She wouldn't stop until I said 'Nameliss puppy be quiet.' She has a water bottle and a Tweeky Clean style feeder. I do feed Harrison's. So I had to find an effective way to decrease waste. Apparently throwing her chop bowl isn't as fun. So it rarely gets dumped.

 

[texsize]

Bella unlatches the Cockatiels cage (mostly Angel & Mango’s cage).
She has even managed to work the latch loose when it was double locked.

The latch can be just dropped in place and lifted up to open.
But if you drop the latch and then shove it in the latch can’t simply be lifted up..
She’s working out how to get past that too.

I don’t know if she is doing it just to see what happens or trying to make friends.

 

[rheashard2]

Maybe she Bella is doing it to watch your reaction. Figuring out locks, hooks, catches is a favorite pastime of most parrots.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Now that's what we call The BAD SEED!!

It was well over a pound of seed! I'm tempted to make them eat off the cage floor! I've had a lot of female budgies toss their food like this. I thought I had a brilliant idea to put a (new) small hanging gravity fed outdoor bird feeder in their cage so I didn't have to fill their seed that often- just fresh chop and greens every morning. Well, all it did was give them much more seed to toss! Maybe I'll put the feeder in the boys' cage instead. Those 4 boys never toss their food. In fact, I've never had a male budgie that tossed his food like that.

 

[rheashard2]

Some pets no matter the type, species, breed take great delight in and excel at frustrating their humans. Life would be so boring if owners couldn't say why did you or how did you several times a week.