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In the evenings, I like to have some Redi-Whip whipped cream in my coffee. One day I was thinking to myself, "Geeze, they sure don't put as much in these cans as they used to..." Later that evening, I was sitting in the kitchen, and HRH Inara was in there on her perch in front of the "squirrels" windows. Joe came in and opened the fridge, and Inara made the perfect sound of canned whipped cream being squirted into a mouth!! I looked at Joe, and he said, "OK, I know this looks bad...." I burst out laughing and he confessed that he often when I was not around (apparently) would swing by the fridge and shoot some whipped cream out of the can straight into his mouth! Then he looked at Inara and said, "Stool pigeon!" Which of course made me laugh harder. These are some great stories! I loved reading them. Keep them coming

1) Years ago when my husband was alive, he'd suffer horrible migraines and was often up in the night to vomit. (Okay, not the best beginning of a story). But I got up one night and as I passed the bird room door, Snickers (CAG) called out "Are you okay?" I ignored him, not wanting to wake the whole crew up. But he kept repeating "Are you okay? Are you okay?" and finally he started making vomiting noises. It was super funny and I didn't know he even knew that noise. Guess he just assumed it was my husband up sick in the night. 2) Once I heard my husband call "What?" and I yelled back that I hadn't said anything. But again my husband called "What?" Took like 3 or 4 of these exchanges to realize my husband was outside and it was Snickers calling out "What?" I laughed but sure felt stupid afterwards -- I had no idea Snicker's mimicry was that good! He fooled me good! 3) I tried to teach my macaw to say "I love you" but she would never say it. Then one she was sitting on the back of my chair chewing up my shirt (she always started with the tags but eventually chewed the whole shirt up). Anyway, she chewed my shirt happily but then accidentally got a tiny bit of skin. I was startled and cried out 'ouch!' She didn't know how to say she was sorry, so instead she said "Well, I love you." 4) The best one I have: Once, I was up on a stepladder (in view of my CAG) trying to replace an HVAC filter in the ceiling return, and Snickers (my CAG) kept saying "Be careful! Be careful!" I only ever said 'be careful' to Snickers when he'd hang upside down from one toe. Guess he really understood what it meant! It's always sweet when a parrot says just the right thing! lol Share your stories!!!

As I read this post I can see Corky in every comment. As of right know I can hear her in the other room going through her repertoire of songs words and whistles. It`s hard to believe that that she has been with me for 21 years.

HRH can also be pretty fleetfooted ! She does love toes, but doesn't bite mine. We play "get those toesies," where I hold my foot up and she come running and then I try to grab her beak with my toes. She loves it, crazy girl ! HOWEVER....she hates it when I try to put socks on in front of her. That is when she will move light lightening and try to nip at my foot. She's like a birdie F1 car at that point!

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

Alfie has always preferred whistles and noises over words. He knows the odd word and phrase and he does like to mumble sometimes. But he LOVES to whistle. He'll regularly whistle his own tunes as well. The worst noise he ever learned was in my previous house. His cage was in the hall near the front door and he learned the noise of the key turning in the lock. Which wasn't a problem until I was home alone one night, knowing full well my two housemates were out all night... then I suddenly hear a key turning in the lock and start panicking that someone is letting themselves in. 😂 It took me a good few moments to realise it was Alfie!

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.

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.