I have a african grey otis 10yrs old and a goffin cockatoo bailey 7yrs old.
Otis calls all the dogs by name and whistle for them, sounds like beeper on the telephone, laughs, he talks in both my voice and my husband voice, and there are times when we can't tell the difference, he loves to yell at the top of his voice HELP ME HELP ME, kids taught him that one halloween, he carries on a complete conversation with himself expample, "did plug the fence in, no, why not, his newest in my voice is " I got shock" in my husband voice "what you want me to do about it"
bailey does very little talking, he screams at night when it gets dark, put he is the sweet one , you can hold him, turn him upside down loves his belly rubs, otis doesn't like to be touch.
If you get one of these birds please remember they live to be 60 to 80 years,
we close our gate at the end of driveway to keep the big dogs in when a car comes up otis will wait until they open the gate and yell "ya'll come on in" I have no idea where he pick that up. it's funny because the people will look for a person saying that and there is no one to be seen, they don't believe it's the bird. |