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Whistles vs Talking


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On 1/26/2022 at 10:05 AM, LNCAG said:

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.

My tag sleeps in a sleep cage in my bedroom, my others do not.  When my spouse & I are talking too loud at night, she goes "SH SHSHSHSHS!  then get mad & starts banging her bell loudly if we don't shut up!

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Love the photos! I've never seen a TAG in real life before either. Are they much smaller than the CAGs?
I think Alfie is on the larger size for a CAG. The vet always comments how big he is. He's a normal weight though- just larger in size than others they have seen I guess!

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