Greys being clever! Share your stories!

[LNCAG]

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 

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[SRSeedBurners]

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.

[Greytness]

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. 

 

[neoow]

Haha these are all really funny!

I'm sure I have loads of stories with Alfie but I'm struggling to think of many right now.

He learned the sound of the smoke detector when we were still living at my parents house. My mum went through a spell of burning everything and setting off the smoke alarm. Unfortunately Alfie associated the noise with my mum being in the kitchen, so whenever she walked past his cage to go to the kitchen he'd start beeping like the smoke alarm!

My dad had been round lots to help with the garden and if he wanted to called me he'd walk into the house and yell "Trina!" and then I'd respond or come downstairs. One day he had finished in the garden, told me he was leaving then left. A little while later I heard "Trina!" in my dad's voice from downstairs. I assumed he'd forgotten something and come back so I went downstairs... but he wasn't there and his car was still gone. It was Alfie. He nailed the voice PERFECTLY.

When we were still living with my parents if my mum called me from downstairs Alfie would answer "WHAT" in my snotty teenager tone. 😂

[Acappella]

Once I was in the garage refinishing the kitchen cabinet doors.  My dad came out and said "there you are!"  I said "yeah, I've been out here all afternoon".  He said "well, I've been talking to you for the last half hour!".  He'd hit the wrong button on the remote and turned the tv to snow, and needed me to fix it.  Thinking I was in the basement, he went to the top of the stairs and yelled for me.  He heard me say "Comin' upstairs", so he went back to the living room to wait.  This scene apparently repeated itself 2 more times, until he heard the sander turn on in the garage, and he realized he'd been talking to Dorian!

[Inara]

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  

[Acappella]

Another Dorian-ism.  He loves strutting around my kitchen counters throwing stuff over the edge.  He usually says "oops" as the item hits the floor.

[neoow]

11 hours ago, Acappella said:

Another Dorian-ism.  He loves strutting around my kitchen counters throwing stuff over the edge.  He usually says "oops" as the item hits the floor.

Alfie does exactly the same- he'll throw or push something off his shelves and make the 'oop!' noise that I make when I drop something. 😂