The embarrassing things we do for our birds

[thekarens]

Zoe doesn't like showers. I've decided I've got one of the very few macs that doesn't like water.

Anyway, she's molting so she needs a bath. I took her into the shower with me and turned the music up loud. I danced and sang and generally made a fool of myself trying to make it fun for her. Here are the results:




After we were done I put some treats in her cup (apple) and handed her a piece, which she promptly dropped, ran to the top of her cage and put her back to me for the next 2 hours.

What weird/embarrassing thing have you done for your bird?

 

[faeryphoebe1]

Zoe is so cute! Haha, and she held a grudge for 2 hours, lol.

For me, walking around with a pooped on shirt and not realizing it.

 

[babybirdie]

Zoe is so cute! Haha, and she held a grudge for 2 hours, lol.

For me, walking around with a pooped on shirt and not realizing it.

LOL
i think anyone that owns a bird has done that and worst part would be if someone else points it out to you like in a shop and your all like " opps..."

 

[Kiwibird]

It's the punk rock parrot lololol! She sure has some spiky feathers going on I dunno, I don't even think about Kiwi in the shower with me anymore. He INSITS upon it (it would be more a fight to keep him away than bring him in lol) and then he rudely whistles at you and says "hello":52:

I am not terribly offended if someone ever thinks I'm "weird" or whatever for doing what makes Kiwi happy (or is in his best interest). The one that gets me the, erm, "worst reaction" is bringing him to the table for dinner. Certain people give a look like I've stuck cockroaches in their food or something by setting Kiwi next to me on his perch. They may be more offended by the resulting tantrum if I didn't bring him Meal time is flock time for Kiwi

 

[RavensGryf]

I don't know off the top of my mind (so nothing too crazy recently), but I can think of so many instances that don't include a bird! LOL

 

[Allee]

Zoe is so photogenic, she even looks good soaking, dripping wet!

When I brought the first member of my current flock home, she was in pretty bad shape, she was so agitated and hyper and when she was hyper she plucked. Out of desperation, I read to her, Shel Silverstein's, "Where The Sidewalk Ends". It worked miraculously and became a nightly ritual, five birds later, it's still a habit. I give everyone a snack, they take their seats/perches and I read to them. Just like reading to a classroom of children. My husband is only home two nights a week so isn't familiar with the routine. He teased me unmercifully at first, but then he was amazed that all the birds were mesmerized. Now my grown sons tease me about it too. I think they're jealous.

 

[GW.Joe]

Zoe doesn't like showers. I've decided I've got one of the very few macs that doesn't like water.

Anyway, she's molting so she needs a bath. I took her into the shower with me and turned the music up loud. I danced and sang and generally made a fool of myself trying to make it fun for her. Here are the results:

After we were done I put some treats in her cup (apple) and handed her a piece, which she promptly dropped, ran to the top of her cage and put her back to me for the next 2 hours.

What weird/embarrassing thing have you done for your bird?

Ha Ha Ha....You just continue to crack me up, for a sec there I was just about falling out of my chair !!

Who cares if no one sees you right? But wait, what if you admitted TO YOURSELF that you were embarrassed THE BIRD saw you do that
(after all they are VERY Smart, LOL)
I can remember getting that SAME feeling with our hairless cat in the shower
(yes they love water)

YES, that is just too funny Karen, thanks for sharing <3 LOVE the Pics!!

To answer your question, kissing our baby "in public" at the bird farm with customers around you, its kind of a private thing (silly to say this, but especially being a guy), they all ask "is that your bird, are you buying that bird" and you have to keep them from touching the bird so you seem mean

HUGS

 

[Peepers]

haha Cute pic. Yes we go the whole mile for our birds. We do a lot of things people would laugh.

 

[TessieB]

Lots of us shower with their birds. Really love the photo of the wet head! Ha! Held a grudge for that long? My! Somebody was mad!

I don't know if the counts for embarrassing but my cockatiels love the paper bags from Ace Hardware. When I go there I ask for an extra few bags for my birds then I show the cashier photos of my birds. You know, I always leave with extra bags, too! Does that qualify me as Bag Lady with Birds?

 

[thekarens]

Zoe is so photogenic, she even looks good soaking, dripping wet!

When I brought the first member of my current flock home, she was in pretty bad shape, she was so agitated and hyper and when she was hyper she plucked. Out of desperation, I read to her, Shel Silverstein's, "Where The Sidewalk Ends". It worked miraculously and became a nightly ritual, five birds later, it's still a habit. I give everyone a snack, they take their seats/perches and I read to them. Just like reading to a classroom of children. My husband is only home two nights a week so isn't familiar with the routine. He teased me unmercifully at first, but then he was amazed that all the birds were mesmerized. Now my grown sons tease me about it too. I think they're jealous.

Allee as a voracious reader myself I love this story. It never would have crossed my mind to read to the birds. I'll have to try it.

 

[BoomBoom]

That is one very wet macaw! Gorgeous feathers.

My neighbor caught me dancing to East Indian music, complete with Bollywood flare. It seems to be the only music Boomer is willing to bop his head to, and I was trying to teach him how to dance. I saved the embarrassing moment by pretending to trip on the floor. I think my neighbor didn't buy it.

 

[Pinkbirdy]

I sing and dance ,jump up and down Im trying to get them to recognize certain songs and start dancing. They seem to get a kick out of me working out to Shawn T's T25. Maybe they think im trying to fly [ he he]

 

[Selestine]

My birds definitely think I'm trying to fly. The kids and I will run around and flap our arms like birds because it makes the sun conure flap his and we think it's hilarious.

 

[dragonlady2]

I love the shower pics...lol.
I would go every week to our neighbourhood variety store and root through his recycling to get the leftover newspapers. A "good day" meant I got a couple of bags of papers. I would get so excited as I was loading up the trunk! Lol

 

[Betrisher]

Well... since everyone's chiming in with their embarrassing moments, I guess I can chime in with mine. But this is a secret, right? No one outside this group knows!

See, we have a thing called an outdoor dunny. It's just a toilet that happens to have a separate roof from the rest of the house. It has plumbing and all, it just happens to be - well - outside. And that's exactly where my birds are: outside. Every time I go to the dunny, I call to them. I sing to them and laugh at them and tell them how much I love them. The most embarrassing thing I do is sing to them the first few bars of 'Brindisi', the drinking song from 'La Traviata'. When they lived inside, Barney and Madge could both warble it quite well. Since they've moved outdoors, there's competition from all the local parrots and so I'm fighting an uphill battle trying to keep the aria in their little birdie brains. So, I sing it to them while in the toilet.

Remember: no one outside this group!!! :22_yikes:

 

[RavensGryf]

My neighbor caught me dancing to East Indian music, complete with Bollywood flare. It seems to be the only music Boomer is willing to bop his head to, and I was trying to teach him how to dance. I saved the embarrassing moment by pretending to trip on the floor. I think my neighbor didn't buy it.

Okay, tell me this isn't the same neighbor who saw you here too (the link)...
I remember this because it had to have been one of the funniest things I've read here now on top of this new story, it's even funnier! Does this neighbor even know you have a parrot? Lol
http://www.parrotforums.com/general...861-what-craziest-thing-you-do-your-bird.html

 

[MrsKay]

Hahahahahhah these stories are hilarious.
This is not something I did for my birds, but just plain embarrassing.
This is years ago when I had my parakeets.
We went outside to the aviary to look at the parakeets. I was inside the aviary with the hose cleaning and filling birdbaths etc.
When we came back in the house, I washed my hands, went to the stove to stir a pot of soup. My brother walked over pointing at my arm saying: "making a little bird drop soup?"
(a dry poop was hanging from the hair of my arm)
I always wash my entire arms ever since this happened.
My brother and his wife have not eaten dinner here since. Imagine that?

 

[hacatta]

well last week when i was taking a shower my mother knocks on the door and ask if she can retrieve something,so i unlock the door ,only for her to walk in stick a bird on my shoulder and tell me to shower,she watched the whole time....awkward,the bird did enjoy it a lot lol.
Ans a few months ago i was vacuuming only to trip on some off their foot-toys and fall into my big closet,i had to replace it,(it collapsed on top of me).you try to explain that to you'r parents.

 

[BoomBoom]

My neighbor caught me dancing to East Indian music, complete with Bollywood flare. It seems to be the only music Boomer is willing to bop his head to, and I was trying to teach him how to dance. I saved the embarrassing moment by pretending to trip on the floor. I think my neighbor didn't buy it.

Okay, tell me this isn't the same neighbor who saw you here too (the link)...
I remember this because it had to have been one of the funniest things I've read here now on top of this new story, it's even funnier! Does this neighbor even know you have a parrot? Lol
http://www.parrotforums.com/general...861-what-craziest-thing-you-do-your-bird.html

It was the same neighbor hahaha! They (boyfriend and girlfriend) are the only ones who can see into my living room from across theirs, even though they are in the next building from mine. They already think I'm this crazy bird person so one more quirk shouldn't hurt.

 

[veimar]

LOL, I loved the pictures!
I had to eat millet spray (I REALLY did bite a few seeds off!!) in front of my new cockatiel today! He had to idea what spray millet was and was scared of it. It actually worked - he started eating it.