Comments on: Top Five Things Your Parrot SHOULDN’T Say

By: Elyse

Elyse — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:38:48 +0000

I have a one year old parakeet that says everything I do!! Crazy how smart something so small can be. My particular budgie has very good pronunciation and emphasises every word to the “t”. Only learning things withing two or so days, I have to be very careful!

By: Eloise

Eloise — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:56:46 +0000

Those are so funny!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:01:27 +0000

I have a greenwing macaw and his favorite thing to do when we have visitors in the house is screech “F**k!!!!!” as loud as he can, then laugh to himself.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:04:26 +0000

I had a grey that my teenage cousin taught to yell “sup bitches” whenever somebody walked in the room. Sad to say it won’t forget it.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:50:46 +0000

You guys are killing me. These stories are great. I mean…it’s not funny when a parrot swears…not funny at all…

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:54:43 +0000

Our severe macaw, who came to us when he was 19, has quite the colorful vocabulary. Since we don’t reinforce it, or say the words ourselves, it’s mostly gone away, but something pops out every once in a while.

His favorite is calling me into the room by my name and when I enter the room, he says “F*** you! I hate you!” (this hasn’t happened for at least 6 months now).

Last year when we were on vacation, he told out birdsitter to “F*** off” a few times. And he likes her!

By: CagTagMomma

CagTagMomma — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:24:50 +0000

I adopted a 6 yr old Congo (Zazu) about 5 yrs ago and she had quite a colorful list of words that came out mostly when there was high emotions going on (hubby yelling at football game on tv, loud discussions re: poltics, a slammed door or hammer mishap – stuff like that). After all this time, they still come out; however, it makes us better about lowering our energy & may have averted a tiff at times
The first time I found out about the potty mouth was a shock though. The morning after I brought her home, I took a grape over to her. She politely accepted it through the cage door, then looked up at me and said as clear as clear as a bell…. “whore!” When I questioned the former owner about it later she said that was reserved for the Mother-in-law! I didn’t have the chops to ask whose mother? We suspect that since Zazu came from a young couple w/ a small child, there might have been lots of newly wed fights in her former home. Other than the occaisonal bleepers, she’s a doll & bonded to both me & hubby (even though she was daddy’s girl in the other house).

By: Wendy Weber

Wendy Weber — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:58:50 +0000

You’re right about the words. The pet shop where I board my bird, make that birds, now, shows movies on a big screen. They are “G” rated, of course, just for that reason. Could get quite embarrassing, otherwise. Wendy

By: graham

graham — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:56:22 +0000

friend of mine has a nice Grey. You ask him to give you a kiss (the parrot – not my friend) and he just stares back at you. as soon as you turn your back he says “Oh, **** you then”

By: rebecca

rebecca — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:02:32 +0000

LOL — yes, there could be worse things. One of my bird trainer friends tried to teach my grey to say in his voice, “I’m under your bed.” Fortunately that didn’t stick.

However, the things that do stick, seem to go away when you remove the instigator and if not encouraged.

So for those of you who already have parrots with potty mouths, there’s still hope to clean up the conversation.