It’s Getting Colder Tonight, Lows in the 30’s…

@ProfessorPlum77 Kiwi loves music. I have a CD player and play different kinds of music CDs or play the radio sometimes when I leave the house, and she likes music enough that’s she’s told me “Play music” when she wants to listen to some. I got a CD two-disc Songs from the Silk Road I’m going to play next.

@cherokeepatti I had no idea parakeets were so smart.

@ProfessorPlum77 I think a lot of times people assume that because they are little and squawk around and chatter that they aren’t capable of learning what words mean.When they learn what a food is called or that they can ask for something and they’ll get it then they are motivated to learn more…. Remember that gorilla that was taught and then used sign language? The university here later was doing research teaching chimpanzees sign language and they learned to communicate that way. The problem was that several years later someone came to visit the chimpanzee compound and asked the person in charge of caring for them if the bit. She replied “no they don’t bite” and the visitor put her hand on the cage and the chimpanzee bit the end of her finger off. They got sued and ended up stopped the research and getting rid of the chimps.

@cherokeepatti Interesting.

@ProfessorPlum77 I remember seeing a video of a talk show host who had a reptile specialist on the show, she brought a snake. The host asked if the snake could bite. She replied no that he had his fangs removed. The snake slowly reared up and looked at the host and bit him on the neck and wouldn’t let go. It didn’t have venomous fangs but pretty sure that snake understood enough that he wanted to show the man that yes indeed he could bite.

@cherokeepatti My goodness!
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@ProfessorPlum77 I had a male parakeet named Baby. He was quite a character and had a sassy streak in him. He’d wake up and start talking and chattering loudly as soon as the sun came up in the morning. One day someone walked up to him when he was unusually quiet an told him to shut up. He let out three of the loudest and nastiest squawks I ever heard and then said “Here me?” In a smart tone of voice. 😂 Like he was going to defy the order to be quiet.

@cherokeepatti It sounds like he had an attitude.

@ProfessorPlum77 He liked men’s voices and would pick up the sass sometimes from them. One week I had Dr. Phil on TV (watched a soap opera and it came on after the soap opera). That bird started saying “Are ya stupid?” In the same tone of voice as Dr. Phil. That’s the kind of thing he would pick up and say. Another time he started saying “You don’t live here. Get outta here! Chit-chit!” I had watched a Charles Bronson movie where he was chasing hoodlums out of the neighborhood and shooting a gun.

@cherokeepatti Wow! You must have a great memory, since you can recall all of their antics!