How smart is your pet?
I showed my youngest parakeet, BooBoo, a photo of a green parakeet on my cell phone and asked him what it was....without hesitation he said "KIWI"...Kiwi is his mother, a green parakeet.
61-69, F
BlueMetalChick · 31-35, F
I have a snake, he's fairly intelligent. Sometimes I like to play tricks on him by hiding something he likes to eat and then making a very simple puzzle for him to get to it. He's able to solve it the majority of the time.
My sister has a pet monkey that's incredibly intelligent. It communicates simple ideas with her through noises it makes as well as with facial expressions. He's able to convey a wide range of ideas and concepts. He also likes to dance, my sister is a skilled ukulele player and he loves to dance when she plays. And she's taught him how to smoke tobacco out of a pipe as well.
My sister has a pet monkey that's incredibly intelligent. It communicates simple ideas with her through noises it makes as well as with facial expressions. He's able to convey a wide range of ideas and concepts. He also likes to dance, my sister is a skilled ukulele player and he loves to dance when she plays. And she's taught him how to smoke tobacco out of a pipe as well.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@BlueMetalChick Monkeys have been trained to be service animals for people with disabilities. I think most animals will understand human language if they are around them long enough. I encourage my birds by answering their simple questions as soon as they ask, and I've had female parakeets ask me many times in a day what I was cooking, fixing, eating, drinking or doing.
BlueMetalChick · 31-35, F
@cherokeepatti She actually bought the monkey because it was supposed to be a service animal. Uncle Billy was a Korean War veteran who was missing one leg and his mobility was impaired, so we were going to get him a service monkey as a gift. Three days after she bought the monkey, Uncle Billy died at the age of 81. So she was left with a monkey and nobody to give it to. After caring for the monkey for a week or so, she absolutely fell in love with it and wouldn't sell it, preferring to keep it as a pet.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@questionWeaver quite impressive....Kiwi multiplied by having 22 babies last year
@cherokeepatti wow!
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@questionWeaver She wanted more but I removed her nesting box, she was biting the babies as soon as she wanted to lay more eggs so I would take them out of the cage....She had one of the babies saying he hated her over and over and I don't know how he learned that phrase except on TV.
Kill4MeMyTaintedLove · 36-40, F
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Kill4MeMyTaintedLove we had one when I was a kid, was helping a neighbor get his cows in for milking every evening...we didn't know till she got run over and died...he came asking about her, said she saved him a lot of time & trouble, he'd open the gate and she'd get to work.
Kill4MeMyTaintedLove · 36-40, F
@cherokeepatti :( aww that's too bad
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Kill4MeMyTaintedLove that dog was self-taught
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SweetMae they surprise me with how they take a phrase and change it to "We" when I've been saying it with an "I"...how do they know how to do that? I've had another parakeet that did the same thing...One used to say "We heard it" and "We didn't do it" and after his mate died he started saying "I heard it", etc.