Oh no.....

[AmyMyBlueFront]

.... I adopted a potty mouthed 'Too!

Jonesy was on top of his house yesterday,saying his favorite line " I'm a good cockatoo mannnnn...." And I said it back to him a little louder. Then he went into a shpeel saying "You're (bleep) me"! Using a very bad word!

My son James was on the couch,he couldn't breathe he was laughing so hard! This guy wasen't quiet about it either
I don't mind so much,it is kind of funny,and its only James and me and Amy here. But if I have "proper" company and he does this,it'll embarrass the beejesus out of me.
I asked his p.o. about it and all he said was "what have you been teaching him??" It didn't come from ME that's for sure. He must have been saying it for some time,coz he is real clear with it

I just hope Amy doesn't think it's cute and start repeating it.

Here is a new pic of the rascal.

 

[Kiwibird]

Lol! At least you can tell guests truthfully that he didn't learn it from you! He looks pretty happy in that picture. I bet he'll start getting in some new plumage soon and goofing really are beautiful with their snow-white plumage.

Kiwi also has that 'word' in his whopping 3 word vocabulary. Mind you, the other 2 words he knows are "hi" and "hello", which he says at random, usually when he wants something you're eating that he can't have (or while watching you in the shower:52. Someone must've told him "[bleep] you" quite a bit for him to have learned that, and worse, he uses it in-context when he's upset with you My mom almost died the first time she heard him say it to her while bird sitting. Thankfully, we haven't encouraged it, so it has devolved into a more garbled version thats less decipherable to the untrained ear:54:

 

[labell]

What is it about that word that birds find so fascinating? I have known people that don't swear a lot and their parrot picked that up after only hearing it a few times.
I would never intentionally teach a bird to swear but I don't watch every word that comes out of me when I am agitated..father was a sailor..nuff said.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Lol! At least you can tell guests truthfully that he didn't learn it from you! He looks pretty happy in that picture. I bet he'll start getting in some new plumage soon and goofing really are beautiful with their snow-white plumage.

Kiwi also has that 'word' in his whopping 3 word vocabulary. Mind you, the other 2 words he knows are "hi" and "hello", which he says at random, usually when he wants something you're eating that he can't have (or while watching you in the shower:52. Someone must've told him "[bleep] you" quite a bit for him to have learned that, and worse, he uses it in-context when he's upset with you My mom almost died the first time she heard him say it to her while bird sitting. Thankfully, we haven't encouraged it, so it has devolved into a more garbled version thats less decipherable to the untrained ear:54:

His down is coming in fabulously. He has only been here two weeks and when I got him,his chest was BARE. He was stressing big time at his previous home over his birdie buddy,an Umbrella.

Jim

 

[Allee]

Jim, you got quite the little character when you adopted Jonesie!

That's wonderful news that he already has new feathers coming in! He looks like a happy guy!

 

[RavensGryf]

Lol, it's so funny when you hear the unexpected and potentially embarrassing! Then you have to try and convince your company that they didn't learn it from YOU :18:

 

[Siobhan]

I have a Quaker who says "dammit" (in context) and one who says "Make your POINT! Make your (bad, bad word) POINT!" The first one learned it from me but the other one learned it at her previous home. I'm kind of amazed all of ours don't cuss like sailors because we do. If the pastor comes over and the parrots cuss in front of him, oh, well. He's known me since I was 14.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

My Smokey would say OOhhhhh Lorddddd anytime I bent over,thanks to my mom lol