Bacca's talking

[flyingron]

Well it's been just a month and Bacca and us are doing well. She talks when she figures she has nothing else to lose (like we've banished her to her cage). She'll say "good bye" when I go out the door or "goodnight" when we put her to bead.

She seems to like to mimic my wife. After she bit me I put her in the cage and a few minutes later I hear "Good Bird, Good Bacca" coming from her. No you were not a good bird. She's also of late learned "Apple" and "Story" when she wants those things (she gets a bed time story before we cover her cage up for the night, she vocalizes along with it sometimes).

Most of the time she makes kissing noises at us ( because my wife kept doing that to her).

 

[Kalidasa]

Lmao! She's got you trained well!

 

[Allee]

That's great! Clever Bacca, looks like you have a talker! I'm not sure if I should tell you congratulations or maybe warn you to be careful. I think my quaker learned to speak English so she could argue with me and instruct me on proper quaker care.

 

[flyingron]

Oh, and just now she's sitting on my shoulder and kept saying "OK" so I'm OK she's learned a new word. Then she pooped on me. I'm beginning to wonder if that's her new "I want to poop cue" previously she just shrieked in my ear.

 

[flyingron]

The latest is she makes sounds like she wants me to pick her up (her favorite words were to tell us "STEP UP"). But she does it on the perch in my office out of my reach so I tap on the near side of the perch (which she thinks is a great game and she sits there vocallizing the tapping noise). I kept telling her come here, so now making the tapping noise and saying "come here" is her favorite way of asking to be picked up. She'll also say "come here" when she hears any sound similar to the tapping (such as the aquatic turtle slamming into the side of the tank).

I've learned to be careful what I say around her. It's like having a small child.

 

[SkyandHoudini]

Sky says bye! to anyone leaving the house and "come! come!" if he wants me to come pick him up. The funny thing is, instead of "step up" I use "come, come" to him to get him to go on my finger. He's switched it around so that he goes on my finger when he wants to, and runs away from me/trys to distract me when he doesn't want to step up. And when he does something naughty he starts laughing! He'll also say "bless you" and "thank you" but he almost only ever does it when someone sneezes! But the best is when he sweet talks, especially when he says 'I love you'. Quakers are smart, silly little birds Sometimes he is so smart it scares me