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I dont get it, this place is is like Linus in Charlie Brown, a comfort blanket. Like so many places I host is a ghost town. The way of the private fourms is done. Everything has gone to facebook or instagram. Ecuse my french, but these places are gone, everywhere. I refuse to give them up, my wife bitches at me all the time, why not give in to facebook and instagram and the like. I say because ill be the last man standing, and I will keep a platform for old folks like me that appreciates this platform. This is one of 50 I buck facebook, twiter an instagram. You have the pleasure of being the part of the old mom and pop vhs store. Dont take it for granted, we are few and far between. I will continue, please dont give any reason for folks to go elsewhere, This is a weath of knowledge. Anyways just saying, maybe you can contribute more, a thought or a story.......anything Use it like a personal diary, i dont know, I dont have all the answers. But when i go for the big dirt nap, there wont be anyone to advocate this kind of communnication. Dont take for grated what you have.

I have 3 parrots as you all know. My 2 greys talk well, not like some here, they say words and some phrases but don't seem to pick much up anymore. They LOVE to mimic whistling more than words. I just started copying them and they LOVE it! Anyone else here?

Don't know I didn't think of this story before. My cockatiel Kodak (RB) loved to whistle but he really stank at it. The worst whistles ever, and an embarrassingly poor wolf whistle. Well Kodak liked to make up his own songs -- absolutely horrible to hear. Anyway, he'd stand on one leg -- his other foot held up like a hand (sort of like the 'stop' hand position). Anyway, he'd be singing some horrific sounding song he'd made up, with that foot out like "stop, wait for it -- here comes the good part." Always made me laugh until I cried. Damn I miss him! His songs were so bad no other parrot here EVER imitated him -- even they knew he stunk at it.

My CAG Snickers does an amazing wolf whistle. He also knows parts of the whistle song from The Bridge Over The River Kwai (which I taught him). If I whistle that song, he joins in on the parts he knows. But yes, I always give my guy a whistle (usually a wolf whistle) but his return whistle is ever so better than mine will ever be. 2022 makes 25 years I've had Snickers. I guess my whistling is probably as good as it ever will be. lol Mine also does all the sound effects -- a spoon scraping in a bowl, sound of a truck backing up, grandfather clock chimes, and the worst: the sound of the smoke detector, etc.. Oh, and he also does the smoke detector chirp sound it makes when it needs new batteries. No doubt that I have accidentally changed those alarm batteries too soon thanks to Snickers.

These are so funny! Sydney (CAG) loves to mimic power drills and other noisy tools. One day I thought my son was working on a project, went outside to see, but no one was there. The power saw is his favorite one to emulate. Maalik (CAG) loves to say 'Mom', in my son's voice to which I say 'What?' followed by Maalik letting go with a prolonged burping sound exactly as my son does. Fynn (CAG) copies everything Maalik says, to the point where I'm unable to discern who said what, unless I see one of their beaks moving. Shaylor (macaw) will always say, 'Are you okay?' in context. If something hits the floor, or if someone, say, stubs their toe, Shaylor is the first to ask this question. He also says 'good morning' and 'good night' in context. Shaylor will also extend his gorgeous wings whenever I say, 'Pretty wings'. If I say, 'Good stretch', he'll stretch his foot and wing on the same side in response.

Kevin and the others are correct. This is the best forum, full of knowledge there is. It has been hard to hang onto it without much activity. My schedule has changed since years back, so I work alot of hours. I do check in here, but don't post much as it is so hard to post pics & videos from my phone, if I could do it easily, I would be posting ALOT! I miss rushing to see the latest post, but I get how social media has taken over and pushed forums to a thing of the past. FB has too much drama, I personally don't like to post alot there about my parrots as I don't want the fact that I won 3 out there for others to get ideas..you never know who is sharing your posts. I worry about thieves. I have an alarm system and a big black Shepard that wants to eat anyone who ventures near my porch...but still it is always in the back of my mind. I wish we could get an app, but I realize that's a huge task & I wouldn't know where to start, if we did I think we could push it for more posting..IDK. Well, I appreciate all you do Kevin to keep us up & running and i really appreciate the members that do come here & contribute! Love to you all! <3

Our household is polyandrous: my wife has two husbands. Her main man, Huey and then her servant husband - me. Huey has lived here going on four years. In that time, he has learned to talk like me, act like me and basically does everything I do centered on Marietta. He wants her sole attention and has learned to basically take on my persona in order to get her attention. He tells her to 'calm down' in my voice. When she calls out 'Babe' he ALWAYS answers her with a 'Yeah'. If she asks me from another room if I want this or that....Huey will generally answer with an "ok", "no", "what?" or something appropriate for the question, always in my voice. What's really cute is that I have convinced him that Mommy loves big muscles. I have taught him to 'workout' in front of mommy. He will raise his wings and bring them down and do a 'whoosh' sound. He'll generally do this 4-5 times while Marietta oohsss and awwwess over him. Huey also constantly asks for a 'shower'. A shower is basically, Marietta gets in her tub, and I bring Huey to just outside the entrance of the bathroom and put him on the floor. He will then puff up and strut into the bathroom where he gets lots of ewwws and awwwwss. He then proceeds to hang out next to her inside the cubby hole under the sink and bangs around like a construction worker. It really sounds like he's busy building something in there. One day I made the mistake of getting in the tub and quickly found out that was off limits. It's one of the few times that Huey has launched an attack across a room and nailed me. I'm not allowed in mommies love tub as we call it. Huey does get me into trouble a lot because he will get short with her and smart off in the exact same way I do. He's always telling her "oh Marietta...." or grumbling in a low voice like I do when I've had about enough talking for the day. Marietta LOVES to tell me, "you see how you talk to me sometimes" Ok, thanks Huey, I don't really need help getting myself in trouble.

Like many, I like checking in here. I don't really have much to post. Most anything I can think of (stories, knowledge) have already been posted. I like having the forum here for searches though -- a place people can search for answers. I am one of those people more likely to search for existing posts when I am researching something than to start a new post asking something. This forum is valuable for the knowledge already posted here, imo. [I was a sysop on Compuserve from around '92 - '02. I remember how busy it was, the thrill of signing in to see what all was new since my last visit 4 hours earlier. lol But eventually those forums slowed down and I'd sign in only to see no new posts (or replies). People were leaving Compuserve and moving on to the internet back then. And now many Internet forums are slowing down too. ]

The facebook groups are too big and too full of drama, although I do remember when there was a bit of drama here too. I only frequent them looking for cute videos. There was one I found the other day of a Grey singing to some childrens song and his singing was absolutely terrible, it was so stinking cute I couldnt' stop watching it. But this place is always my favorite.

Does anyone else know how to get 2 congos together?

I'm very thankful for this forum and the people here. I've learned a lot and appreciate the sense of "community" sans politics etc. here. I'm in a couple of facebook groups, but as neoow said, they move too fast, are filled with some very critical and unhelpful people, and don't have a "personal" feel at all.

I much prefer this place to facebook groups or whatever else. I do have a twitter account for Alfie but it's more just for fun and showing his antics rather than seeking serious help/advice. Facebook groups are hard to keep up with and generally there are always some grumpy/mean people who judge quickly and are less than helpful. I don't post in the groups I'm a member of, I just keep half an eye out in case I see something useful or interesting. This forum holds a wealth of knowledge from many people who have dedicated to posting time throughout the years. I have learned so much from this place and I am forever grateful for it's existence and for those who keep it running. I check in regularly but unfortunately don't always have much to say!