Well Known Sayings that can Apply to Birds

[Rico_Tiel]

It can be any saying that applies to birds/bird keeping/anything bird

here are mine!
Bigger is better (cages)
One man's trash is another's treasure (birbs seem to love their tp rolls)
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Faster than a sneeze through a screen door.

Let's see yours!

 

[zERo]

Let’s see…

Don’t knock it till you try it! (Applies to food/toys/perches/ etc!

 

[cnyguy]

There's one I've been trying to get Ralph to understand for a long time: Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

 

[Rico_Tiel]

There's one I've been trying to get Ralph to understand for a long time: Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

don't we all? haha!

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Let’s see…

Don’t knock it till you try it! (Applies to food/toys/perches/ etc!

too true!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

don't we all? haha!

A bird in the hand is worth two in the cage.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the cage.

And
Don't look a gift bird in the beak.

 

[texsize]

Look before you leap.
More applicable to new parronts than to the birds themselves.

 

[PrimorandMoxi]

Polly wanna cracker?
(nine times out of ten they actually do)

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Look before you leap.
More applicable to new parronts than to the birds themselves.

too accurate!

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Polly wanna cracker?
(nine times out of ten they actually do)

thay saying drives me nuts but it is literally true!

 

[onamom]

There's one I've been trying to get Ralph to understand for a long time: Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

100000% this!!!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

thay saying drives me nuts but it is literally true!

Does anyone actually name their parrot "Polly"? Not a bad name, but if someone asked my parrot's name I can't imagine saying "Polly" with a straight face!

 

[Cottonoid]

These are all fantastic

 

[texsize]

Garbage in garbage out.
This is true for feeding your Fids and the language you use around them.
If you talk smack they will learn to repeat it.

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Does anyone actually name their parrot "Polly"? Not a bad name, but if someone asked my parrot's name I can't imagine saying "Polly" with a straight face!

well, when I do this super annoying "spoilt brat wants a PaRaKeEt" voice, that is my PaRaKeEt'S go-to name along with Kiwi and Blue/blueberry!

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Garbage in garbage out.
This is true for feeding your Fids and the language you use around them.
If you talk smack they will learn to repeat it.

every day I live in fear,
I swear so often, so casually.
if one day, the monster speaks,
that will be the day my heart no longer beats.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

every day I live in fear,
I swear so often, so casually.
if one day, the monster speaks,
that will be the day my heart no longer beats.

Huh?

 

[Rico_Tiel]

Huh?

my mom hates it when I swear so if rico repeated my constant and casual swearing, my heart will not beat