Reply With QuoteI'm interested in knowing too. So please keep us updated on how teaching Emma your phone number works out!!! This is something I would like to do with my grey!!!
:blush: Now that I know that Emma is capable and willing to speak english, I have decided to start teaching her how to say my phone number starting tomorrow. I've heard of and read too many tragic stories of parrots being lost... I can't imagine what I would do if I ever lost my Emma. For sure there would be a huge void inside of me even though I have only known her since May 2008.
All I have to figure out now is how to ... interest her in wanting to repeat my phone #. :blush: :blush: Any ideas?
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I'm interested in knowing too. So please keep us updated on how teaching Emma your phone number works out!!! This is something I would like to do with my grey!!!
~~~~~~~~~~ Ana Grey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Louie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sterling Gris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lily ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I had Marvin and Molly micro chiped. Do'nt worry they r just birdz ---- itz not the mark of the beast that will soon coming to a town nere u.
Jamal
That is a great idea. Let us know if it works. I guess just repeat the numbers to her everyday. Or maybe put it on a recording machine. I did that with my moms grey, I recorded myself singing "Bad bird, bad bird, bad bird, whatcha guna do, whatcha guna do when I come for you" and i played it everyday for him and he says it great now. But this is how he says it "You have one new message, all message play back, Bad bird, bad bird, bad bird, whatcha guna do.. monday at 6:06pm" haha it is pretty funny!
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That is hysterical Catlin!!! LOL!!!:laugh:
~~~~~~~~~~ Ana Grey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Louie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sterling Gris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lily ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I know you're excited about your bird talking and about it's amount of things it can possible say, I would rethink the decision to teach a bird a personal piece of info such as a phone#. First off, if your lost bird is actually found, it won't talk to strangers. The bird may have a traumatic experience occur before being captured making it more upset to people making it not want to talk even more.
The bird may give out numbers but in a different order if it gives them out at all.
You may change your # in the future but the bird won't forget those digits even though the # means nothing.
You may have heard horror stories about escaped birds but even the most popular device used is which is chipping doesn't have a high success rate unless a lost bird is actually brought to a place that can read a chip. The main thing to focus on right now is escape proofing your bird area to relieve your mind.
Finally, the owners of the extremely few birds that were actually recovered by repeating a phone # usually got a small article written about them in Birdtalk because it's rare that it works.
Dave
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Would a band around the leg with its address on it help perhaps?
Daves right.
Micro-chipping works IF the bird is turned into a shelter or vet office that has a reader for that microchip type.
The best way to address this issue is as Dave said in being very care and conscious of doors, windows and not taking your bird out without a harness or in a carrying cage or pack.
If your bird does happen to escape, the best method of finding him/her is to watch where it went and go look for it immediately and if spotted do not leave or take your eyes off of it for even one second.
If you do not know where your grey flew or is then you must start calling all shelters, vet offices, posting flyer's everywhere and posting on Internet sites and hope for a call or email.
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. ~K.O. Eckland, "Footprints On Clouds"
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I agree with Dan & Dave. You couldn't ask for any better advice.
That being said, I DID teach Talon to say our phone number in 2 days. Of course it is a very easy number.....665-6652. I made the 2 sound very exciting, we would say TWO very high pitched! But she has stopped saying it, as I haven't continued to say it to her. So as far as changing your phone number, your bird could relearn a new one, even if she repeated 2 phone numbers, she has a chance of one of them working....:huh:
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I really agree with the advice given by Dan and Dave. I think it is very important to get into the habit of checking all doors and windows before letting your bird out.
If however, you do decide to teach your phone number.....try singing it. I found that singing works really well with my bird.
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