After a few weeks a funny thing happened. I really started to like this silly human who was constantly singing off key to me. Poor thing you have to give her an A for effort though. She sees me react to the singing and thinks I like it but really I am trying to form my first human words…. EARPLUGS! She also keeps telling me “pretty bird” how slow is she? I KNOW I am a pretty bird! But like I said I am starting to like this adorably slow creature. She gave me my own house and toys and gives me treats and even my favorite thing in the world, popcorn! I do wish she would stop trying to give me fruit though, how many times do I have to act like I am dying when I see a banana before she gets it???
We play together a lot. She is really quite cute when I get her onto the floor and make her play with the ball. She swats it back and forth like a cat and sometimes I have to pick it up and give it back to her, I guess she is not very coordinated. When she is bad I have to teach her a lesson by flying up to the top of the curtain rod and sitting there until she gets a chair (my human is short). Well she climbs up the chair and then I have to fly away again to show her I am the boss. I have to chuckle when I think about how annoyed she gets, she calls me by my full name then. After a while I think she has suffered enough so I let her hold me again and give her a little kiss, because after all she is my little human!
A few things my human does that I have not been able to break her of is; trying to feed me veggies I don’t like. I do the whole “why are you trying to kill me act” and she still does not get it. She also has this thing about wanting me to be clean, I just don’t get it, where do you think the expression dirty birdie came from, not all lovebirds like baths! Oh and the whole vacuum thing. What is up with having to disturb my space with that noise making machine! I don’t mind that my seeds and pellets are all over the floor of MY room. Why should she care? I mean after all that fuzzy gray thing she calls Sammy likes to eat my left over seeds that get away from me while I am kicking around in my food dish. I guess she does not want him to have the good stuff though because she keeps telling him no.
She is so easily amused, really the idea pet. I can do just about anything and she thinks it is funny. When I dance because she is playing some great music she just laughs and claps at me. I also amuse her with hanging upside down and bobbing my head. By doing this I have also taught her to dance, although honestly she is not very good at it, but then that is where I get my amusement. She sees me laughing and thinks she is doing good and just keeps doing it more all the while I am about to have a birdie accident in pants because she is sooo goofy and funny.
Some of the tricks I have taught her is the come fetch me trick. I chirp really loud and she comes to my cage and I do the let me out of my cage sign by rubbing my beak on the bars. It works every time she really caught on quick to that one. I have also taught her to feed me new food when I am bored of the seeds I have left after picking though them. I just have to sit on my food dish and squawk a couple of times and she comes and changes my food and gives me a new mixture of seeds and pellets. She has also gotten really good at wearing the correct clothing to amuse me. She knows just the right buttons and strings to wear to give me hours of chewing enjoyment. I just wish she would learn not to squawk when I like to hide out in her shirt.
