I Have To Work On This Parakeet’s English...

@4meAndyou Me too. Koko.

@cherokeepatti I did NOT see that. Thank you. My heart bled for Koko and her lost kitten...till now.

@cherokeepatti I saw that, it was so funny! There is probably still video of it online somewhere.

@UnderLockDown no I havent

@cherokeepatti Very cute story about a quail that was hatched from an egg found in a garden and lived her life as a pet.

@SW-User I have them in the living room most of the time till I take them to the sun room. They learn quite a bit off the tv, or overhearing conversations or whatever. If they show an interest in something I show them and talk to them about it like they were 3 years old. If you want a parakeet to learn to talk they have to find something relevant to them to make them interested in learning the words. Food is something they are interested in. I talk to them when I give them something or clean their cages or give them a toy. They overhear me talking to the boy and repeat phrases we say to each other. That’s how they learned to say Thank You and they learned you say it when someone gives you something, or does something for you or gives you a compliment and they do it in those situations and it also means Please to them because they equate it with getting something. They remind me of little chatter bots. When they first learn something they might not know exactly what it means but they build on the words and phrases as they do and learn to use it in the correct context. The more you interact with them showing them things the more they want to see and learn. One of my female parakeets lost her mate and she started squawking & screeching so much I thought it was pure grief. Went on for about 3 days and then one day I got some celery for a snack and walked past her cage as I was eating it. She said “Want some, Want some”. I figured out she wanted celery so I gave her some and she calmed right down. It was her mate who would beg for celery before and he always fed her before he ate any for himself. She didn’t know how to ask for things because she never had to before he died, he just fed her and took care of her. She remembered me asking him “want some?” When I offered him celery and treats and then said it when she saw me eating celery. After that she was really quick to learn new phrases and words because she learned that they had meanings. She asked me more questions than any other bird I’ve ever had. She was in a tall cage and was near the kitchen and could watch what I was doing...she learned to ask “What are you cooking, What are you fixing, What are you eating, What are you doing, What are you drinking” and other questions.

@cherokeepatti WOW!!!! You could just take all the stuff you posted here, copy and paste it, and then print it with photos of your birds, and your book is already all done!

@cherokeepatti I'm afraid mine will pick up cuss words at this point lmao.
Then I may have to do something about that....👀(JK JK, I love my birdie babies)