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I'm so proud!
Topic Started: Jun 16 2012, 02:16 PM (416 Views)
Sidney
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Mom and Dad decided to head up to the Cheddarshack this morning. After packing up all the crap that Mom cant' do without for 48 hours their stuff, they put the dog carrier on the countertop. Being the good boy I am, I dutifully walked in, and Dad closed the door, locking it with one of those spring-loaded loopy things.

So, about halfway there, Dad says, "Hey, Mrs. George, listen to that! Sidney NEVER talks on the way up here! Listen to him, he's calling Sarah, and singing Ba Ba Ba, and saying Hello!"

Little did he know that I was talking and singing because I managed to get out of the carrier and I was sitting on top of it! Boy, was Dad surprised when he looked in the rearview of Mom's new car and saw me sitting on top of the dog carrier!

So, Mom, reached back, and I rode on her lap for the next 45 minutes, until we got home.

"Sidney, the Safecracker." That's me! :thumb:

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George K
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Yeah, you should tell them about how you took a big sh!t on Mom's lap and the seat of her car too. :veryangry:

You wouldn't be so proud then.

Fvcking bird.
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Funny. From a spectator standpoint, anyway.

There was a hilarious call on Car Talk this morning from a guy who wanted to know how to get the smell of goat urine off his Blazer's upholstery.
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kenny
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How big is a macaw's first morning poop?
We need pics.

George, I'll post a pic of a Senegal's first morning dump next to a quarter if you will.
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Cathys
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Too funny but I think this is one case where we don't need a pic, Kenny ;)
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George K
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Sid stays in his cage until about 2 pm, so we don't know how big that first dump is. Suffice it to say that when we take him out of his carrier after a two hour car ride, it's splatteriffic!

The nice thing about when he sits on his stool, as he is right now, is that the dog licks up the poops, and there's less for me to clean up. :hair:

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brenda
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Sidney is quite the travel buddy! Cats are not so good for that.

I can't believe your dog does that, George.
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George K
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brenda
Jun 16 2012, 04:16 PM
Sidney is quite the travel buddy! Cats are not so good for that.

I can't believe your dog does that, George.
It makes for, um, colorful dog poops.
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George K
Jun 16 2012, 04:17 PM
brenda
Jun 16 2012, 04:16 PM
Sidney is quite the travel buddy! Cats are not so good for that.

I can't believe your dog does that, George.
It makes for, um, colorful dog poops.
So you still get to clean it up in the end.

Oh, I slay myself. :lol:
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kenny
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brenda
Jun 16 2012, 04:19 PM
George K
Jun 16 2012, 04:17 PM
brenda
Jun 16 2012, 04:16 PM
Sidney is quite the travel buddy! Cats are not so good for that.

I can't believe your dog does that, George.
It makes for, um, colorful dog poops.
So you still get to clean it up in the end.

Oh, I slay myself. :lol:
Unless George just lets the dog eat it's own poop.

Perhaps he will discover the first perpetual energy machine.
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So can birds be potty trained at all or do they pretty much go when they need to go, wherever they happen to be?
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Fvcking bird.


:lol:

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kenny
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jon-nyc
Jun 16 2012, 04:54 PM
So can birds be potty trained at all or do they pretty much go when they need to go, wherever they happen to be?
My experience is that they train us, if we are attentive, to when they are about to go.
Then it is up to us to immediately move them over newspaper.

Depending on the species there is generally a sudden puffing up of the feathers (which clears them from the path of the poop around the vent) and a squatting stance.
We must remain quite alert if we have the bird over an object we wish poopless.

There is also timing.
Our Pacific Parrotlet pooped about once every 20 minutes.
Our Senegal has a cycle of about 30 minutes.

Naturally this interval is shorter after meals.

Again it is the human that must be trained not the bird, a fact unargree-able to many humans who feel superior to and dominant over their pets.
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The smaller the bird, the more frequent the poops. I can usually hold it for about 2 hours - the ride to Wisconsin.

There's a reason the American Robin's scientific name is Turdus Migratorius. :lol2:
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kenny
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Puppy NEVER poops in her little sleeping crate, in which she spends from 8 to 10 hours.

But that first morning bomb is massive.

She sleeps in a crate because in the winter we don't heat the whole house, only our bedroom with a little space heater, where all five of us sleep.
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Birds are really fvcking smart.
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Jun 16 2012, 06:06 PM
Birds are really fvcking smart.
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Listing Alex's accomplishments in 1999, Pepperberg said he could identify 50 different objects and recognize quantities up to six; that he could distinguish seven colors and five shapes, and understand the concepts of "bigger", "smaller", "same", and "different", and that he was learning "over" and "under".[2] Alex passed increasingly more difficult tests measuring whether humans have achieved Piaget's Substage 6 object permanence.[12] Alex showed surprise and anger when confronted with a nonexistent object or one different from what he had been led to believe was hidden during the tests.[12]

Alex had a vocabulary of about 150 words,[13] but was exceptional in that he appeared to have understanding of what he said. For example, when Alex was shown an object and was asked about its shape, color, or material, he could label it correctly.[11] He could understand that a key was a key no matter what its size or color, and could figure out how the key was different from others.[4] He asked what color he was, and learned "grey" after being told the answer six times.[14]

Alex understood the turn-taking of communication and often the syntax used in language.[10] He called an apple a "banerry", which Pepperberg thought to be a combination of "banana" and "cherry", two fruits he was more familiar with.[14]

Alex could even add, to a limited extent, correctly giving the number of like objects on a tray.[15] Pepperberg said that if he could not count, the data could be interpreted as his being able to quickly and accurately estimate the number of something, better than humans can.[15] When he was tired of being tested, he would say “Wanna go back,” meaning he wanted to go back to his cage, and in general, he would request where he wanted to be taken by saying "Wanna go...", protest if he was taken to a different place, and sit quietly when taken to his preferred spot.[14] He was not trained to say where he wanted to go, but picked it up from being asked where he'd like to be taken.[14] If the researcher displayed annoyance, Alex tried to defuse it with the phrase, “I’m sorry.” If he said “Wanna banana,” but was offered a nut instead, he stared in silence, asked for the banana again, or took the nut and threw it at the researcher or otherwise displayed annoyance, before requesting the item again. When asked questions in the context of research testing, he gave the correct answer approximately 80% of the time.[16]

Once, Alex was given several different colored blocks (two red, three blue, and four green—similar to the picture above). Pepperberg asked him, "What color three?" expecting him to say blue. However, as Alex had been asked this question before, he seemed to have become bored. He answered "five!" This kept occurring until Pepperberg said "Fine, what color five?" Alex replied "none". This suggests that parrots, like children, get bored. Sometimes, Alex purposely answered the questions wrongly, despite knowing the correct answer.[15]

Preliminary research also seems to indicate that Alex could carry over the concept of four blue balls of wool on a tray to four notes from a piano. Pepperberg was also training him to recognize the Arabic numeral "4" as "four". Alex also showed some comprehension of personal pronouns; he used different language when referring to himself or others, indicating a concept of "I" and "you".[17]

In July 2005, Pepperberg reported that Alex understood the concept of zero.[18] If asked the difference between two objects, he also answered that; but if there was no difference between the objects, he said “none", which meant that he understood the concept of nothing or zero.[19] In July 2006, Pepperberg discovered that Alex's perception of optical illusions was similar to human perception
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JBryan
Jun 16 2012, 06:06 PM
Birds are really fvcking smart.
That they are... (Smarter than many of the denizens right here on TNCR, as a matter of fact!) :lol2:
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Not owning a bird myself, this thread contains much more information than I wanted to know :veryangry:
Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman
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