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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 16 2012, 02:16 PM (416 Views) | |
| Sidney | Jun 16 2012, 02:16 PM Post #1 |
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Junior Carp
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Mom and Dad decided to head up to the Cheddarshack this morning. After packing up all 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! |
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| George K | Jun 16 2012, 02:18 PM Post #2 |
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Finally
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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. You wouldn't be so proud then. Fvcking bird. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 16 2012, 02:22 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| kenny | Jun 16 2012, 03:51 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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 | Jun 16 2012, 03:54 PM Post #5 |
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Senior Carp
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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 | Jun 16 2012, 04:02 PM Post #6 |
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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.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| brenda | Jun 16 2012, 04:16 PM Post #7 |
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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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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| George K | Jun 16 2012, 04:17 PM Post #8 |
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It makes for, um, colorful dog poops. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| brenda | Jun 16 2012, 04:19 PM Post #9 |
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So you still get to clean it up in the end. Oh, I slay myself.
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| kenny | Jun 16 2012, 04:40 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Unless George just lets the dog eat it's own poop. Perhaps he will discover the first perpetual energy machine. |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 16 2012, 04:54 PM Post #11 |
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Cheers
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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? |
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| Dewey | Jun 16 2012, 04:58 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| kenny | Jun 16 2012, 05:42 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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| Sidney | Jun 16 2012, 05:46 PM Post #14 |
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Junior Carp
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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.
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| kenny | Jun 16 2012, 05:49 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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| JBryan | Jun 16 2012, 06:06 PM Post #16 |
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I am the grey one
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Birds are really fvcking smart. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Sidney | Jun 16 2012, 06:09 PM Post #17 |
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Junior Carp
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My Hero
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| Frank_W | Jun 18 2012, 05:43 AM Post #18 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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That they are... (Smarter than many of the denizens right here on TNCR, as a matter of fact!)
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Klaus | Jun 18 2012, 05:48 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Not owning a bird myself, this thread contains much more information than I wanted to know
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| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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