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Aww yes..FOOD..my 2 get their own plate or eat off of mine. My spouse wont allow eating off his plate & although they have been doing that their entire lives, they have learned that HE does not allow eating from his plate, he gives them his food onto another one & they are good with that. My third one,,gets bullied, so I have to give her bites from my fork at a distance from the others...LOL

HRH Inara also enjoys whistling. When she was little, Joe taught her, "If I only had a brain," and I taught her the first few bars of "Over the Rainbow," so she uses those for our separate flock calls. Then hers is one she made up herself. She also (as many of you know, loves "Walk Like an Egyptian") can't wait for the whistling part in her favorite song. She gives a loud whistle after her danger sound when she is on the ground, and a few months ago took to doing what I call her "Taxi whistle" every time she convinces me to give her a ride back to her cage from another room. She hops on my shoulder and gives that whistle. She also has a singing song that she made up that goes like this: "I love carrrrrrots." With the carrrrots going up and emphasis on the 2nd syllable. She sings it in a pirate sounding voice (wth??hahah). She recently added a 2nd verse to it, "Joe loves carrrrrots." She really is delighted when she gives a whistle, if we answer with our own identifying one. And if we whistler hers, she dances with joy. OMG the stories of the door lock sound, and the "wait here comes the good part" foot, just slayed me!

Well, also as an Internet oldtimer (back in the day when I had to stick my phone receiver into the modem cradle and telnet from Wyoming into Norman, OK to get access), I hope this forum never goes away. It was so comforting to have enough energy to pop back in and to see old friends and fids. Melts my heart. I suspended my Facebook account ages ago and I left all of my groups and deleted everyone from my friend list except for immediate family. It went from being a fun place to game and chat with friends to a quagmire of vitriol. Nope. I am on MeWe which has no ads, no trackers, no click bait, and I only use it for a small private group of 4 dear friends and myself so we can chat daily and share pics of our kids and grandkids. This forum seriously could be considered the Bible of Greys. There is such a wealth of info here that is unparalleled. I'm here until the fat lady sings.... xoxo Jane and HRH

Yea, I always share my food too! Or if I can't, I give him some alternative treat before I get bring my plate in -- then we eat together! How many people in the world can claim to be part of a parrot flock?

Yes indeed. Same applies to eating. When I eat, he wants to eat, more flock behavior. The other day I was eating something I couldn't share. I don't know what I was thinking, I'm not properly trained yet, because I should have given him an almond or something. He sat in the outer shelf attached to his cage (where he goes when he knows there is food in the kitchen) and gave me the stink eye for a minute. When I didn't respond appropriately to his baby bird chirping (his second line of defense to alert the hooman that he needs his share), he went to his seed bowl and got a nutriberry. He returned to his "eating" shelf and ate it. They are so funny, but the flock behavior is real!

You dont need an app, this system will adapt to ANY internet device that can access a web site. It looks a little narrow, but it lines up perfectly and is fully functional.

Motel 6 and Tom Bodett, the lights are on LOL. I edited the cuss word, sorry, I thought the filter would catch it. But it did generate some conversation

I stopped visiting here when my Dad was palliative and I was his full time caregiver, then it took me literally years to recover because of my own health struggles. I was so afraid you guys wouldn't be here when I typed in the web address, but so happy when you were. Missing some old familiar faces, but maybe, like me, they'll be back someday.

@TimbersmomYou nailed it! Mine wants some sort of reassurance when I leave the room so he whistles and pretty much demands I whistle back. He gets very loud and squawky if I don't respond. Like you said, it's an "I'm OK, are you?" You and I are each part of a flock! lol

I had a friend on CompuServe with a TAG, and she let her parrot sleep in their bedroom at night (caged). One morning she heard the carpet shuffling sound of her dog entering the bedroom and she sort of braced for the weight of her dog jumping up on her bed. But that jump never came. Nope, it was her TAG who had actually learned to mimic the carpet sound of a dog walking. Parrots are so attuned to such faint noises. Wild animals really have to assess and react to every single faint sound they hear for survival. Interesting to me. Snickers does make soft sounds sometimes, sounds like a door closing, the furnace kicking on, turning a burner knob off, oh, and dogs in the distance! All these sounds mimicked faintly and softly. So often I tune out some of these faint parrot sounds, much as I tune out the actual original sounds from around the house.