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Post by julianna on Feb 2, 2015 14:06:58 GMT -5
"local news reporter who sometimes wears a bright orange blouse (she gets the Quaker alarm call"
This is exactly what Oscar will do cnyguy. Those bright colors will get him screaming every time.... and even people wearing hats.... that's another screamer.
In the morning Oscar will watch a little TV with me but usually he is bored and just sits on my finger cleaning his feathers and the little hairs on my face.
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Post by siobhan on Feb 2, 2015 16:11:52 GMT -5
We watched Starsky and Hutch last night and it was a creepy one where Starsky gets kidnapped by a cult who chant "See-moan, See-moan" (the way the leader pronounces Simon) all the time and it ends with the cult planning to chop poor Starsky into bits and Hutch barely finds him in time to prevent that. Parrot rating: shrug. Even when Hutch was having meltdown temper tantrums trying to get the cult leader to tell him where Starsky was being held. And Hutch could have some serious meltdown temper tantrums.
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Post by cnyguy on Feb 2, 2015 20:45:10 GMT -5
"local news reporter who sometimes wears a bright orange blouse (she gets the Quaker alarm call" This is exactly what Oscar will do cnyguy. Those bright colors will get him screaming every time.... and even people wearing hats.... that's another screamer. The only color that really upsets Ralph is orange, and the brighter it is, the stronger Ralph's reaction. Two or three times a month, that news reporter wears her orange blouse and I have to change the channel.  He reacted the same way to a news report showing a prisoner dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Hats don't seem to bother him, unless they're orange. |
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Post by aaron on Feb 3, 2015 11:11:03 GMT -5
Cupcake used to freak out over red things, but of course I started using red objects to keep her from landing in places she isn't supposed to go and I think she was incentivised to stop being frightened by red, because now she doesn't freak out about it any more and happily lands next to those red objects. Foiled again!
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Post by biteybird on Feb 4, 2015 4:14:22 GMT -5
Nice psychology, Aaron!  |
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Post by siobhan on Feb 5, 2015 11:17:01 GMT -5
Pooh. I wish I'd thought of trying that. I did try leaving a hat in a spot I wanted to keep birds away from and it worked on Quakers but not on tiels or Maggie the Pigeon Queen. In fact, the tiels began a mission to destroy the hat so I had to take it away. This morning I had to pop into their room before leaving for work to check on Sherlock (he's still hanging on) and I'm wearing contacts. Clyde told me off but good.
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Post by aaron on Feb 5, 2015 22:26:42 GMT -5
Pooh. I wish I'd thought of trying that. I did try leaving a hat in a spot I wanted to keep birds away from and it worked on Quakers but not on tiels or Maggie the Pigeon Queen. In fact, the tiels began a mission to destroy the hat so I had to take it away. This morning I had to pop into their room before leaving for work to check on Sherlock (he's still hanging on) and I'm wearing contacts. Clyde told me off but good. Eh... I would rate the success of the technique as mediocre at best and definitely temporary, at least for the places that Cupcake really wants to go... like the top of my fish tanks, which she is just hell bent on visiting no matter what I do, so I just cover them with towels and various other items.. That being said, it did seem to have a lasting effect on her going to the top of the kitchen cabinets, for the most part. |
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Post by biteybird on Feb 6, 2015 3:06:21 GMT -5
I really like the flexibility of the quaker mind...much more adaptable than some humans!
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Post by easttex on Feb 6, 2015 4:57:13 GMT -5
I really like the flexibility of the quaker mind...much more adaptable than some humans! Maybe that's the attitude I need to adopt, instead of always thinking I have to try to outwit my birds.  |
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Post by siobhan on Feb 6, 2015 13:10:54 GMT -5
You cannot outwit birds. Though they are probably highly entertained by your efforts. Some of mine are also fond of sitting on fish tanks, most notably Maggie the Pigeon Queen, and while I realize that cleaning up poop is my lot in life, I really don't want pigeon poop in the fish tanks. Yes, they have covers, but of necessity there have to be openings in the covers to allow for feeding and for air to get in, and Maggie is a genius at pooping into the openings. Poor fishies. I've been blaming Maggie for the poop I find in the utility sink every single day and most of it is hers, but yesterday I discovered the Tiel Horde playing around the sink and realized some of the poop is theirs. Better to poop in the sink than some other places since it's easier to clean, but now I feel bad for blaming Maggie (not that it upsets Maggie in the least to be told she's a slob and makes more work for Mommy; that's her JOB, isn't it?)
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Post by biteybird on Feb 6, 2015 22:28:34 GMT -5
Siobhan, I can't help but think of your house as the equivalent of a science fiction movie set, sort of like Stargate Atlantis! The only difference would be that you're the only representative of the human species and the one at everyone's beck and call.  |
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Post by easttex on Feb 7, 2015 7:22:41 GMT -5
Don't I know it! You might have temporary success, but they will find a way... |
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Post by aaron on Feb 7, 2015 11:02:35 GMT -5
Curses! I too have problems with Cupcake pooping in fish tanks. She doesn't seem to be trying to, but every once in a while one manages to sneak in. Although as far her being on the fish tanks goes, honestly I worry more about Cupcake ingesting fishy bacteria than I do about the fish having the occasional bird poop in their water... but I am sure they don't appreciate it. I try to keep her from nibbling on the tanks but she outwits me regularly |
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He reacted the same way to a news report showing a prisoner dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Hats don't seem to bother him, unless they're orange. 
