Thanks for the scare Perjo

[DRB]

So I wake up and come down stairs to her cage, she put out a couple calls to see if I was up, I was. I hadn't stepped off the stairway and she was flying off a perch. She was kind of quiet and sitting in back corner of the cage, I assumed she just had a little slip. So as I go to change out her food and water bowls, as the first thing of the day, which is part of the routine, she started to fly about in the cage again, she never flies in the cage. She was very quiet and wouldn't repsonde to my voice or come near my hand, I thought WTH is going on.

Then it dawned on me, I was not fully dressed, just in red boxers, no shirt. Very bright red boxers. Ding ding ding, the bell went off in my head, she's freaked out about the red boxers, just like she was freaked out about a red kitchen towel three weeks ago.

Went upstairs, threw on some shorts and a shirt, and it's like I was a different person, she started her morning calls again, and running to the cage door as I approached.

Such finicky little minds they are, and it's crazy how much thought you have to put into how and when you approach them, even when they are your bird and so well bonded.

Note to self, Perjo isn't a big fan of the color red.

 

[OutlawedSpirit]

I had that problem with the pretty chicken when I first got her, but her color was orange. She was pretty vicious for a while if we tried to pick her up and were wearing an orange shirt. She got over that eventually, which is good because she wouldn't even eat anything that was orange unless it was cut tiny.

 

[Terry57]

It is so funny how having parrots can change our wardrobes! Talli hates every baseball cap except for one that my husband wears, they are all black and white but only one is acceptable. I also had to re-dye my hair when I dyed it a colour that was a little too red s Talli wouldn't stop attacking me.
The things we do for them

 

[BeatriceC]

Goofy goes bat poop crazy of MrC is wearing shorts and/or not wearing a shirt. Charlotte gets upset if my hair is down (I have waist length hair that is usually in a bun). Birds are strange creatures.

 

[Mariar]

Way to funny! Sissy loves red but can't stand the sight of any one wearing a baseball cap. She goes into attack mode...which is pretty cute but she thinks she's being tough. For those of you who don't own a severe macaw...they puff their heads up..making it look like an Afro...to cute

 

[Taw5106]

LOL! Great thread! I recently started wearing glasses and non of the birds like them. If I stop to talk to Buzz with them on he puffs up, you hear the gurgling building and then full on growl. Venus attacks my glasses, she the only one that will touch them. And Buddy, like everything they will eat him. So no glasses when interacting with them. They also panic when the lawn crew shows up so I close the blind as soon as I hear the crew.


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