Truth hurts?
What’s not to love about parrots? Gorgeous and smart, make great friends.
I had a buddy in the Navy who got a parrot as a joke. He was shocked to find out the thing was likely to outlive him. And his wife eventually made him give it up for the same reason as the zoo. His buddies kept teaching the bird salty words and phrases.
The man turns around, but there's nobody there and he's mystified. Finally, he figures out that it's a parrot sitting on a perch that was talking to him. So he says to the parrot, "What?"
The parrot says, "You're stupid and ugly and so's your wife!"
The man says, "Whaaaaat?"
The parrot says, "You heard me. You're stupid and ugly and so's your wife".
They leave in a huff to go find the store manager. Store manager says, "I'm so sorry sir. I deeply apologize. Sometimes that parrot gets into a weird mood and does this. But don't worry, I'll take care of it right now."
The manager puts on thick gloves, grabs the parrot by his legs with one hand, and with the other he goes whap! whap! whap! left, right, left, right, smacking the bird silly, leaving him woozy & wobbly, with feathers all over the place. He says to the visitors, "Don't worry, that should fix the problem. It won't happen again."
Later as the couple leaves the store, they walk down that same aisle as the parrot, and just after passing him they hear, "Passsst! Hey buddy!"
The man whips around: "WHAAAAAAT?!?"
The parrot says, "You know what".
*Pat, I would like to buy a vowel.
Really, t**t is not what I think it might be.
Is it a British thing like "bird"?
Well, is he?
They can deliver them to me. I’ll take good care of them :)
There was a tavern in NE WI that had a mina bird. The dam bird used to say eff you every time he got the urge.
The tavern keeper would run over and throw the cover over the cage to shut the thing up because it would keep on saying it.
Looks like some Freepers need to be seperated.
Uh, WHO DONATED these?
Parrots are mostly drama queens. They love watching emotion. When humans cuss, it gets a reaction. They see that and think “I wonder what happens if I say it?” So they say the cuss word and the human freaks! Drama reward! So the bird thinks “Cool! I have to remember this word because it gets a reaction.” And the more people freak out over the parrot cussing, the more the bird thinks he’s getting attention which, in his mind, is simply wonderful.
I’ve said before that parrots are little Clintons. You absolutely cannot shame them into corrective behavior. They don’t understand the concept. The only way to correct parrots is to actively ignore them when they act up. I would stand next to the cage with my back turned and arms folded until they stopped the bad behavior. Then I praised them for being good birdies when they stopped. They got the drama reward for being good instead of being bad which is how you encourage good behavior. Yelling at them or punishing them only encourages more of what you wanted to eliminate.
There was one at a store I often visited as a young Marine. He got to know me. He often cussed like a sailor for my amusement, lol.
Fortunately Bourke’s parrots can’t talk “people language”. Mine would probably be arrested, since he’s been listening to me curse at our local Son of Obama and his vehicle stereo bass for over a year :-)
No one in my tiny town can figure out what the a-hole is doing here in the first place. Maybe I can train the bird to poop on him on command. :-)
Kinda funny. When I was a teen my friend and I liked this parrot at a pet store and taught it curse words hoping no one would buy it. Some guy bought it just for the reason it cursed. Lesson learned
We had an African Grey bird. That thing could mimic any sound and hundreds of them.