What does your bird say?

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

This last week, we boarded our bird at a local university veternary department. They brought him into a room that he had to share with two snakes...which was borderd by a room with two bulls. We suspected that he would come home either hissing or mooing.

So when we returned home, my house had many more cobwebs than when we left, and I decided that we might have been invaded by creatures while we were gone. Well, then mouse noises started.

Of course, my husband is still gone, and a mouse in the house is nothing I can handle on my own. I wanted to pack and leave. The thought of seeing the little creatures just makes me come unglued. I can't even look at hamsters in the pet store.

I was washing dishes yesterday when I heard the sound again. This time, the squeek sounded like the mouse was in pain. I turned around to look for him when I noticed it was the BIRD, making MOUSE NOISES.

I guess they were feeding the snakes a healthy diet of mice at the university.... So I just want to be the first to thank the professionals at Mississippi State University for teaching my bird to scare the bejesus out of me.

What does your bird say?

 

[Blondy876]

Before my parents divorce my mother taught my father's blue and gold macaw to cuss at him.

 

[LoraJ]

My cockatiel says "Aaaachoooooo".

Sometimes, when I cover him up at night, I say "Goodnight Fred, I love you" and he answers back "Achooo".

 

[swtnikki]

My parakeet, Spike, makes this, well, farting noise. Of course my fiance tought him that. Boys will be boys.

 

[grinningghost]

No bird here, but my former neighbor's bird used to say "shut up" constantly. And the bird was right in the front window, so you could hear him from my house.

 

[MeanLaureen]

Piper says "Pretty Bird" and wolf whistles. She also imitates laughter. The three boys don't say anything.. go figure!

I had a cockatiel named Rico who was a great talker. He picked things up, we never taught him anything specifically. He started out with Pretty bird, then added in his name, then changed his name to Rico Beako. We had him back when the TV show "The Dinosaurs" was big. he picked up the phrase "Not the momma" that the baby used to say. I did manage to teach him to only say that when my husband was holding him..lol. He could also imitate me sneezing, coughing and blowing my nose after one bad year with allergies. He also did the phone, the beep of the microwave. He learned the name of one of our dogs - Toby. When Toby was a puppy he was always trying to get in the trash so we would yell "TOBY". Soon enough if we heard a rustle, Rico would yell "TOBY"!!! Creepiest thing he ever learned was he could do a perfect imitation of the squeak the kitchen door makes when it opens. Scariest darn thing when you are home alone late at night and all of a sudden he would make that noise - makes you jump because you think someone had broken in the house!

 

[Sparx]

he would wolf whistle, but he never said a word.

 

[Saffron]

Ack! Dying mouse noises! Play some Springsteen 24 hours a day or something, maybe he'll pick up something else.

Not my bird, but years ago I was on the phone with a friend and in the background I heard this conversation:

"Shut up!"

"No, you shut up!"

"No, you shut up!"

Whhhaaaaahhhh.

I asked her if she needed to go and she laughed and said no, it was her parrot imitating her kids, crying and all. When she started to laugh, the parrot started to laugh. Then he proceeded to imitate the phone and doorbell and screech REALLY loud, so we had to stop the conversation, he was drowning us out.

I have no idea what my birds say, but they say it to each other every morning, around sunrise, while banging their water dish up and down.

 

[chyam]

Disney is a nanaday conure and he says "Give me a kiss" night night, Rio! (Rio is my partially deaf dog and I have to call her many times and loudly to come in) He wolf whistles too and that is how I found him in my backyard 11 years ago, I was lounging in a chair and I heard the whistleing, thought some kid was whisteling at me! He also whistles when he hears Bonnie Raitt or Greg Allman on the radio!

 

[LBAK]

My Quaker parrot doesn't say a darn thing but it can bark just like my doxie. Go figure!

 

[eek40]

I dont have a bird, but I used to work for an airline as a customer service supervisor. I had a man on the phone once that was really mad, and kept yelling and yelling at me to fix the problem finally he was quiet then I hear a sound of squak, "Bob you need a beer." " have a beer Bob!" squak. "Bob relax and have a beer!!!!!!!!!!!" Squak. He finally laughed and told me that his bird was trained that when he was really stressed out to tell him to have a beer! I guess he got stressed often? That was the funniest bird I have ever heard.
Aimee

 

[MaryPA]

My Nanday Conure says "Come Here" very clearly. Pretty Girl and Love You are not as clear but I know what she is saying. I think bless you comes out once in a while when someone sneezes.

 

[Lady Cluck]

Also not my bird, but we had friends who divorced. He kept the bird until he heard it say "Perry" in the same whiney, nagging voice that his ex used. Bird soon went to live with ex wife.

 

[Marseeya]

My 'tiel doesn't talk, but she wolf whistles and whistles the Andy Griffith song. She also whines just like the dog, which makes me nuts.

Our vet has an African gray who was owned by a guy with emphasema (sp?) and so the gray has a nasty cough-like sound. It sounds like he's going to keel over dead, LOL!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

These are too funny!

We don't have a bird, but when I was a kid we had a pet magpie. He lived in a cage outside (don't get me started on having what should be wild animals as pets ). One day my dad was working on his truck and was under the truck. He heard someone say, "Hey, Roy" so he got out from under it, looked around, but nobody was there so he went back to work. He heard another, "Hey, Roy", got back out and the bird was sitting there looking at him.

The bird didn't normally say much, other than "hello" and "hell".

T&B

 

[LoraJ]

ROFL at the Bob beer story!!!!!!

 

[eek40]

ROFL at the Bob beer story!!!!!!

It was hard to not laugh while I was on the phone with Bob. I am telling you Bob must have gotten upset with people frequently on the phone for the bird to be that well trained