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Sinergy -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/15/2007 7:50:23 PM)
Make him sit with you while you are on the computer. Involve him in your life. Give him tasks to do. Read Proust to him. Make him watch Legends of the Fall with you, make him write an essay about it. Spank him when he is naughty. Tie him to the bedposts and use him as he needs to be used. Play Abba for him on those special nights when you want to reward him for his love and loyalty. Sinergy p.s. If you are on the other team, have him do all those things to you.

juliaoceania -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/15/2007 7:53:47 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sinergy Make him sit with you while you are on the computer. Involve him in your life. Give him tasks to do. Read Proust to him. Make him watch Legends of the Fall with you, make him write an essay about it. Spank him when he is naughty. Tie him to the bedposts and use him as he needs to be used. Play Abba for him on those special nights when you want to reward him for his love and loyalty. Sinergy p.s. If you are on the other team, have him do all those things to you. I can testify.. this approach works... (hums Dancing Queen and thinks about Daddy)

Vaseline -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/15/2007 11:41:57 PM)
Your parrot has good taste. Besides being the greaest group in the history of the world, ABBA survives today in countless imitators and a wildly successful musical, Mama Mia, playing all over the world, including Broadway and Las Vegas. Mama Mia, here I go again...

MercTech -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/16/2007 6:39:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy jim says i should carry him around on my shoulder- a good way to sever my ear off! Birds show dominance by height in the tree. Unless you have thoroughly dominated the bird in flock behavior, it will bite to show dominance frequently. A bird carried on the shoulder is taking the dominant position. Never, never, let a bird in training get on the shoulder. When he tries to bite, take beak firmly in hand and scold. If he reaches for you with open beak, pop him on the beak. Talk to a knowledgable bird owner and get some tips. You may need help in training that fellow. ... African grey calls the dogs, in my voice, then screams "Bad Dog, Bad Dog!" when they come and cackles manaiacally as they slink off with tails tucked. ... Quaker parrot... originally belonged to a fellow very much in to home brewing... whenever he sees someone take a sip from a glass, he makes a HUGE belching noise. .... Many exotic birds show submission by feeding the dominant one. NEVER take a nap on the couch with a bonded cockatoo running loose unless you want to be waked by having regurgitated seed placed in your mouth. <personal experience> Stefan

mistoferin -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/16/2007 6:44:31 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MercTech ... African grey calls the dogs, in my voice, then screams "Bad Dog, Bad Dog!" when they come and cackles manaiacally as they slink off with tails tucked. ... Quaker parrot... originally belonged to a fellow very much in to home brewing... whenever he sees someone take a sip from a glass, he makes a HUGE belching noise. .... Many exotic birds show submission by feeding the dominant one. NEVER take a nap on the couch with a bonded cockatoo running loose unless you want to be waked by having regurgitated seed placed in your mouth. <personal experience> It really is too early to laugh this hard! [sm=biggrin.gif][sm=biggrin.gif][sm=biggrin.gif]

mnottertail -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/16/2007 6:53:45 AM)
quote: f u seen him on cam you would conclude he is well. You are just a fuckin' parrot pimp, pahunkboy. For shame, camming your parrot. Have you at long last, sir, no sense of human decency?

Vendaval -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/16/2007 4:18:46 PM)
Are you sure the two of you are not married? [8D] quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy for a while i had him up for sale- then i got over the bite- but he drawed the line. no touching. [a fun date huh??] no flowers and candy if i dont even get to pet it.

mnottertail -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/16/2007 5:57:54 PM)
Oh, hell no---don't even go there girl.

Vendaval -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/17/2007 1:49:06 AM)
Preening your hair with his/her beak and regurgitating bird seed into your mouth seems pretty intimate to me. [8D] quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail Oh, hell no---don't even go there girl.

dogthing -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/18/2007 5:16:55 PM)
quote: Or maybe Johnny Cash ? Johnny Cash, definitely! :)

pahunkboy -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/19/2007 8:40:34 AM)
i have moved the birdcage so he is more part of the action. he can see full view of me in the computer room, and in the pine room, tho he cant see the bed in there. im playing 80s music and he is "singing" along. I thought i would have to worry about the dog and bird gettting along. then i wonderred that the parrot could peck the dogs eye out. so i wont push it.

pahunkboy -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/19/2007 8:45:10 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MercTech quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy jim says i should carry him around on my shoulder- a good way to sever my ear off! Birds show dominance by height in the tree. Unless you have thoroughly dominated the bird in flock behavior, it will bite to show dominance frequently. A bird carried on the shoulder is taking the dominant position. Never, never, let a bird in training get on the shoulder. When he tries to bite, take beak firmly in hand and scold. If he reaches for you with open beak, pop him on the beak. Talk to a knowledgable bird owner and get some tips. You may need help in training that fellow. ... African grey calls the dogs, in my voice, then screams "Bad Dog, Bad Dog!" when they come and cackles manaiacally as they slink off with tails tucked. ... Quaker parrot... originally belonged to a fellow very much in to home brewing... whenever he sees someone take a sip from a glass, he makes a HUGE belching noise. .... Many exotic birds show submission by feeding the dominant one. NEVER take a nap on the couch with a bonded cockatoo running loose unless you want to be waked by having regurgitated seed placed in your mouth. <personal experience> Stefan LMAO at the dog repremand. You Sir, win Pahunkboys infromal post of the day award!!! congrats!!

LotusSong -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/19/2007 9:52:21 AM)
Taking from what I have learned in my 22 years of parrot keeping- Birds communicate by emotion. Pure emotion. Aggressive behavior illicit aggressive behavior. Scolding a bird does not work. They are not dogs. They don't comprehend it. Food rewards work for good behavior. They need more attention than any other animal (being they are kept in cages- I leave my bird out all day long in the room I am in most with the TV on) I agree with the positioning of being higher than the bird when interacting with it . Keep your head above theirs. Once they are higher than you, you are parrot meat :)

pahunkboy -> RE: Parrot likes ABBA (6/20/2007 8:20:17 AM)
he actually said "hello" 15 times last night. i heard talking and went to see. i have him better positioned to see me full view and re-connected satilite- which is alot of 80s music that he tries to sing along with. i do let him out of his cage. a yellow feather duster heading toward him coaxes him back in. i dont make it too routine as then he demands it. there is alot to know about parrots and thye all have different personalities. sometimes i can re-direct him when he screams bloody murder. if i am on phone i often mention to the party they are hearing my parrot... as it can sound nutso. among all my pets of my 43 yr life- this has been the most interesting. he tries so hard--- then of course he wants to be the man. i dont yell at him when he screams- i ring a bell or try to get his sounds different,. they can hear and speak a broaader spectrum then humans. this may sound odd- but i have come to favor him over my dog.

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