Do any of you have your bird out whilst eating you meals?

[Stitchthestitch]

I started doing this to make him feel part of the flock so to speak, but I'm thinking of putting him away when we eat.

Albie has decided he really REALLY likes pizza. As in flew and landed on it, ran across from my husband, down his arm on to my chair, on to my shoulder and jumped at my pizza (veggie pizza,) and chomped it! He kept coming back for it! He hasn't shown any interest in what I'm eating until the pizza! Even when I make his dinners and have him with me ill eat some of his veggies in front of him and make a fuss so he will try, he's not that into it, but pizza? He'd chase me around the house for it I think.

 

[wfstecko]

My Rocco's cage is always open during the day. He joins me if I'm eating on the couch, but not if I'm eating at the table. Then he'll go into his cage and eat pellets. The one exception was when he flew over to the dining room table during Christmas dinner. He loves my maple glazed carrots.

As for pizza, he likes the meat and cheese but has no interest in the crust or veggies. Same with peanut butter sandwiches. He puts his beak between the slices of bread and steals my peanut butter. I get the bread.

Once when I was eating stuffed peppers he was gently caressing my cheek with his beak. I didn't realize until I looked in a mirror that he was painting my face with the tomato sauce.

Now he's whining because I'm failing to provide "Walter on demand" service.

Walter

 

[Stitchthestitch]

We could do anything stop him as we were both in hysterics watching him trying to nom on my pizza slice. It was the funniest thing he's done, besides climbing all over me to avoid bed Time

 

[saxguy64]

My guy Tucker has a thing for cereal lately. If he sees it or even hears a cereal box, he relentlessly harasses, lands on, or climbs on whoever is trying to eat it. He gets super frustrated if it's some kind that he can't have. We've had to resort on occasion to his own little bowl just to keep him happy long enough to eat our breakfast.

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[fiddlejen]

:23:After reading the "Love & Waffles" book I decided to offer Sunny some waffles. At the time it was fine since I was not carb-restricting myself. Unfortunately she now believes All Waffles are HERS. Apparently all birds love waffles? Anyway this causes a problem as I have gone back to low carb so Now if Im gonna make myself waffles, I have to make a special bird-safe waffle for her also.

Beyond that she mainly wants my food only if I'm eating something not safe for her. :23: This might just be a ploy to get me to give her seeds instead... :25:

(The budgies of course have No Interest in eating my food. They only want millet, or their in-cage lettuce & broccoli.)

 

[SailBoat]

We are an Amazon household. Amazons have a long history of being foodies and it goes without saying that standing between an Amazon and Food is a very dangerous place to be...

That all said, pizza (not even veggie pizza) is not one of the top listed items on any food list. Try to limit the amount you eat and as a result the amount your Parrot eats. Once your Parrot has developed a taste for a questionable food, it is very difficult to simply lock them away while you are enjoying the treat...

 

[Laurasea]

My parrots share most of my parrot safe meals with me. And they always try to go for any meat if I'm eating that ( not a big meat eater) first! They know! They grab and fly up high, the brats! Try eating with 4 flying dinosaurs hanging off you lol!

 

[charmedbyekkie]

Nope!

Our foods contain onions, garlic, meat, oil, added sugars, caffeine, dairy, and other non-parrot safe ingredients. There's no way I'm letting him anywhere near our food.

We make sure to feed him his dinner in his food box the same time we eat ours though. And if the humans are having a snack, we put a foraging toy together for him.

 

[Jen5200]

None of mine can be trusted with my food - they get chop in their cage while I’m eating. I don’t mind sharing my salad or whatever, but there are times that I do want pizza .

 

[Stitchthestitch]

We don't eat pizza all that often, it was a rare treat for us. I just wasn't expecting him to go crazy for my veggie pizza like he did and was wondering if any of your birds did this for anything. I'm certainly not planning on stuffing albie with human junk food. Most of the food we eat is food I have cooked and he's not really shown any interest in stuff I've cooked (yet).

 

[T00tsyd]

I used to have Syd out but recently decided to give him something in his cage instead. Meals became a battle even if I gave him his own plate, it was never as good as stealing off mine, but then he would scatter it everywhere. Now I leave him in his cage and he waits quite patiently knowing he will probably get some. Of course if he thinks he is being left out he screeches like mad so there is no peace until his maid serves him.
He likes a breakfast cornflake before the milk goes on, I will give him a bit of cooked carrot which he loves especially if it has sauce or gravy on it. He will kill for cheese, yoghurt, honey, butter, strawberry jam, apple pie, french bread, the list is almost endless so at times it's actually healthier for him to be out of reach. I think he has forgiven me but it has taken time. He is screeching as I type because although he has had his breakfast I haven't yet had mine and he is telling me it's time for breakfast number 2. He rules the house!

 

[wrench13]

All both our parrots were raised to eat dinner with the family, both Salty and Max (RIP). Max's little cage was on our kitchen bar top and he was content to eat his food while we had ours. Salty lives in his much larger cage about 3 feet from that place, but his play stand/boing is immediately adjacent to the table, and he also gets his dinner at the same time we have ours. If what we are having is parrot safe, he gets a spoonfull added to his chop. I believe that sharing mealtime with your parrot enforces the flock concept in their heads, even if the actual food is not shared. Pizza. Both Salty and Tinker get a piece of crust and they will drive us crazy until they get their piece. Same with sandwiches - they want their piece of crust !!

 

[Alehner529]

I'll have my sun out when we eat, unless she is being too pushy. Certain foods she goes gaga for and if i dont want her to pester me the whole meal, then i put here in her cage. Mac n cheese is her weakness.

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[SassiBird]

Sometimes we let the birds eat with us, but most of time we eat after they have gone to bed. It just depends if we want to eat in peace or not.

I have one carb-a-holic, one meat and cheese eater an one that just likes to shred whatever you're eating.

 

[fiddlejen]

I was just reminded this afternoon of the other odd things that mine likes to eat. Basically, anything White (or pale) and very high fat. So, mayonnaise. If I eat tunafish salad she goes for it. She doesn’t care about the tuna —she wants a beakfull of mayonnaise.

One day I was having some banana bread, offered her some. She turned up her little beak at it. (Doesn’t like bananas.) I decided it was a little dry & poured some heavy cream over it. Then she was All Over it.

And whenever I eat a slice of American cheese—of all things!—she insists upon having some. I try to limit her to only a tiny piece, big as a seed. But if I don’t finish my own slice quickly enough she reaches for more. Even tries to take it from my mouth!

 

[hiriki]

I do, but mostly because I have them out whenever I'm home, and as a young adult living in an "apartment" (my mom's basement... lol) my "dining room" is essentially my couch... where I eat.



I had a cockatiel once who went nuts over rice, which granted is a much better preference than pizza but she'd land... directly in it. Just plant her nasty poopy feet directly in my rice. I'd have to watch her like a hawk for that pre-flight lean forward whenever I ate rice, and use a bowl so that there was at least a chance she'd be generous and land on the lip instead of in my food.


Yesterday my dove landed in my partner's popcorn... it was doused in hot sauce and he didn't seem concerned lol.



I can see how it would be more irritating if you eat at a dinner table honestly, I have a reputation with my family for not being as "grossed out" by bird poop as I should be (in my defense I DO clean it when they poop on my couch!! Right away!! Lol) but I draw the line at landing on the dinner table.

 

[lollipoppy]

No, I used to let my parrotlet hangout on my shoulder and eat some of my veggies with me. One time she got too excited to wait and flew over to the plate of veggies on the table, successfully pooping on my plate on her way there. I never did it again, and I don't think I'll do it with my new bird either, LOL! My lovebird used to sit on my shoulder while I ate snacks, but that was it.

 

[clark_conure]

My birds always eat with me. I don't eat sweets, onions at home, or anything that will harm them.

Zod likes bacon, clark likes the hamburger.

Poison is in the dose a little fatty meat every once in a while IS ok. They only get maybe as much as 1/5 of a regular pellet. But we are a flock so we eat as a group.

 

[roadrunner413]

Glad to know Kiwi isn't the only pizza lover... he's like a magnet to it the second either one of of has a slice!!

 

[clark_conure]

I think all parrots on a genetic level know what pizza is.....which is weird. But a proven scientific fact.