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re:Longest phrase?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Anna

My six year-old Congo Gray knows about 40 phrases. I have often scurvily wondered how long a phrase he shall be capable of repeating. Notwithstanding what's the longest phrase any of you have managed to teach your Gray? Nevertheless cosmo's longest to date: "Jesse Ventura is my kinda guy!" His latest: "Cosmo for president!

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re:Too Quiet at home.....
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Linda

finding it really quiet at home, and have been thinking we could give another little birdie a luving home...
We arnt too keen on having another Cag because I think it will not be the same as having our little baby back

So really Im after a bit of advice on what you lot think about other species? Amazons mainly I think.. any comments welcome..

Karen & Ben

(missing our Shadow like mad..)

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re:play fighting with your grey
In category Training
Written by lisa

does anybody here playfight with their bird? mine is typically very loveable - but occasionally she gets a little full of hell and seems to want to playfight - never really hurts me - just gets very rowdy... playfighting is the best way to describe it

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re:feeding advice
In category Bird Food
Written by Jackie Collins

Paddy my 6mth old cag is a very fussy eater not really in to veg or fruit although he always has fresh veg & fruit in his cage along with parrot mix in his other dish. Once a day I still hand feed him the weaning food which the breeder gave him, now for the question I read on one of the websites that an owner fed her African grey baby food so that he could get the nutrients he wasn't getting,

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re:African grays and cats?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by dumfatnhappy

I've a 6 year-old, good adjusted Congo, whome I have had sense he was a chick. Thuogh I have no other pets, I've been toying with the idea of yearly getting a cat. Have any of you had experience with Grays and cats in the same household?

Bob Fliegel, St. Augustine, FL

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What's your CAG's reaction to the vacuum cleaner?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Headdy

My ten year old CAG is very used to me vacuuming around his cage- I have to because of his powder- also he likes to grab a handful of food and throw it to get attention occasionally- anyway- I've been vacuuming almost every day for this long- ten years- and his reaction is the same and kind of puzzling. He turns upside-down, gets in a top corner of the cage and stares a the vacuum like he's in a

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re:Toxic Levels in different items around the house.
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Suck it bitch

Hi to all,

I have heard, different things about stuff we have in our household which can be bad for a parrot. Im just namely wondering to what level are they bad?

Teflon on coowkare for exapmle. It becomes toxic to a bird after it reacvhes a certain temperature. What temperature is this, or do I get rid of all my
Teflon coated cowkare?

Scent candles, scented incense sticks, plug-ins, gravely cl

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re:Nobby and fruitveggies
In category Bird Food
Written by Penny

Hi all, My CAG Nobby is a very fussy eater but it's not his fault as his previous owner never offered a exceedingly varied diet just poor qaulity parrot mix from the local pet shop. In short I have introduced fruit and veggies into his diet, some he likes but mostly he leaves what I put out. He does however, love celery!
He'll quiet happily crunch through a hole instantly chopped stick at

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re:chocolate
In category Bird Food
Written by greylover

In addition just a quick qeustoin .
Basil our CAG has got used to a "small" piece of chocolate covered wafer at bedtime....will this do him any harm?

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What is the real story on Teflon and a C.A.G.??
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by zifban

I've heard several different stories on Teflon and would like to know can I use it or not? At that time I have been told by several CAG owners they use it all the time but I read it will kill them if you use it. PLEASE help me figure this out!!

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re:time spent with your parrot
In category Training
Written by gery

how much time, in average, do you spend with your parrot?

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Food that is considered as toxic to african greys
In category Bird Food
Written by gery

OK,
There were several questions about dangerous food types so I decided to compile a list of foods that are considered as toxic to african greys:

Alcohol
Chocolate
Coffee
Salt
Tea
Uncooked PotatoAvocado Pear

Please note two things:
1. If they eat a very small amount it will not kill them and might even go unnoticed, but this is something they should AVOID.
2. There might be another

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re:Baby Food
In category Bird Food
Written by gery

I Have heard a few of you mention defiantly feeding your CAG's baby food. Our new Baby, also our first CAG, is seven weeks now. We also have a Eye White Conure, who we hand fed & weaned ourselves. She eats the Zupreeme pellets and thats it, no fruits, no vegies, nothing. Despite all my efforts to get her to eat something else she just won't do it. But she is fat, haelthy and happy. My po

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re:Companion?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

i see which quite a few of u owners have more than 1 parot.... is this to keep the other parrot company.... Of course if it is what makes the best companion for a cag? Looking at it if u dont want to regularly breed? i mean can u keep a small bird like a bugdie as a companoin for a cag or does it have to be of the same size....
anywayz i saw this pic and it made me laugh.... reminds me so much of

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re:22 year old Greys
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

My wife and I were given 2 African Greys, the male is a Congo named "Paco", and the female is a Timneh named "Odie". With the birds came a 4x6 foot cage from CagesByDesign.com. Odie is a sweetheart. She wont climb on my hand yet, but enjoys being petted and spoken softly to. Paco on the other hand bites every time someone tries to pet him. The previous owners claim he was once hand tame, but

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re:African Grey loves ice water..
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Suck it bitch

I have two African Grey's (Sam and Kenya). Sam loves to take showers so she has one every day with no problem but Kenya on the other hand will squawk like a chicken if I take her to the shower room. If I insist with the shower she will stand, look at me with teary eyes and pout...

What I do for Kenya instead of the daily shower is spray her down with a soft mist spray bottle and she is OK.. A

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Pine Cones - Are they all safe?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Judy Wilhelm

I bought a parrot toy recently that had 3 pine cones on it. CAG (Simon)
tore into them instantly. I have a pine trees around my house. Can I use them?

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re:Oil lamps, candles, etc...
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by jamal

Hello everyone (Gibson giving out a big whistle to his fellow CAG's)...

We've already had one power outage this year which brings up several questions. I know you are not supposed to burn scented candles but how about regular wax candles? Going in that direction, how about oil lamps?

Pre-CAG my wife was a big candle fan... She has put them aside for Gibson.
Her latest question to me was about bo

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re:First Time CAG Owner
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by micah

I am getting a CAG this next week, and as a new owner I have a lot of questions.

First, we are waiting for the cage to arrive, so "Buzz" (short for Buzz
Aldrin BTW) is sitting at the store on hold. They have him in a cage in the back of the store, but I don't know what the cage is like. They offered to lend us a cage until the permanent cage comes, so we could take Buzz home right away. We figur

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re:How sweet is your Grey?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by micah

We have had exotic birds for years, everything but a Congo Grey. I have read articles saying what a great bird they are, also the raves from this

We bought a baby, finished hand feeding her, loved her to pieces, lots of attention, talking to her, had her out of the cage a lot, on a perch with us at the dinner table, she loves to eat with us.
The older she has gotten (she is now 3), the l

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What is the real story on Teflon and a C.A.G.??
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by tami

I have heard several different stories on Teflon and would like to know can I use it or not? I have been told by several CAG owners they use it all the time but I read it will kill them if you use it. PLEASE help me figure this out!!

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Incense and Scented Candles
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by dsaltarelli

I would like to burn incense and/or scented candles, but of course I don't want to harm Morey, my 6 year old CAG. What is the thoughts of this Group?

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re:African grays and cats?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jami

I have a six year-old, well adjusted Congo, whom I've had since he was a chick. Though I have no other pets, I've been toying with the idea of getting a cat. Have any of you had experience with Grays and cats in the same household?

Bob Fliegel, St. Augustine, FL

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Petsmart Thing..........
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Wonko the Sane

Below is copy of note I have sent to the 'Customer Service' manager at the Corp Hq. of PetSmart............

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re:Longest phrase?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jami

My 6 year-old Congo Gray knows about 40 phrases. I've often wondered how long a phrase he'd be capable of repeating. What's the longest phrase any of you have managed to teach your Gray? Cosmo's longest to date: "Jesse Ventura is my kinda guy!" His latest: "Cosmo for president!

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CAGTAGNAG?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

http://www.itsagreysworld.com/articles/about.htm

Which have I got?

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re:Tinkerbell, a flighted and harnessed CAG travelling and flyi
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

Tinkerbell is my 2 1/2 year CAG.

She is flighted and goes about with me everywhere in Taiwan up the mountains and forest and about everywhere. She wears a harness and leash to my design that perhaps you may find useful too. She comes out riding with me on my motorbike.

The details of that harness and the training we did together are in her web page.
http://community.webshots.com/album/94652562

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considering a CAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by doupanic

My wife and I are considering getting a CAG.

It will be our first bird.

Presently we have two Dobies, a cat, a rat and a tortoise.

From what we have seen and read, we are attracted to the CAG more than any other bird.

Something about they way they look.

One shop owner is steering us to Amazons. He claims that they handle more wild households better. Every trait that he sites as negative abou

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re:moving to Australia with 2 greys - how?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jami

I've looked up and down the web for info on what is necessary to move to Australia with my CAG and TAG. Everything seems geared towards dogs and cats and the only thing about birds is that they will be destroyed at the airport.

so....

1. is it even possibly to get my 2 greys into the country
2. are they subject to the same 30-day quarrantine like dogs and cats
3. where can I get info on the sub

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What's your CAG's reaction to the vacuum cleaner?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Ra Max

My ten year old CAG is very used to me vacuuming around his cage- I have to because of his powder- also he likes to grab a handful of food and throw it to get attention occasionally- anyway- I've been vacuuming almost every day for this long- ten years- and his reaction is the same and kind of puzzling. He turns upside-down, gets in a top corner of the cage and stares a the vacuum like he's in a

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re:Beak Question
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Shaister

I have just noticed that my CAG has a light spot on his beak. It is on the top part of the beak about a 1/2 cm from the tip and about 1 cm long. It looks as though the colour has worn off and it is the same colour as the beak of a TAG.

Has anyone heard of this? His yearly check up is on Aug. 1/03 but I thought
I would ask here first.

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Companion?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by laurasphishin

i see that quite a few of u owners have more than one parrot.... is this to keep the other parrot company.... if it is what makes the best companion for a cag? if u dont want to breed? i mean can u keep a small bird like a budgie as a companion for a cag or does it have to be of the same size....
anywayz i saw this pic and it made me laugh.... reminds me so much of flicky when he has his veg
http:

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Now he wont go on his cage at all
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by DivjakWSP

My Boyfriends CAG is a few years ago and like the rest of us likes things on his own terms ..... and has been allowed to get his own way ... so havin g read some good books that OldMolly from this group recommended realised he needed training ..... big time ... and so it began

He will not go onto anyones hand at all ...except my boyfriends .... but not on demand ... only if it suits him in .....

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re:My African Grey screeches when she knows I'm around but.....
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

My African Grey screeches when she realizes I'm in the house - but she isn't getting any attention from me (or she can't see me). The sound drives my wife crazy as she has super-sensitive hearing. Is there a way to train Koko to not screech? People who tell me some wise-ass remark like I shouldn't have a parrot if I won't accept the screeching need not respond - please.
I'm only looking for con

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re:Vacuum Cleaner Sound and Bathing
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by binkus

Does anyones African Grey take a bath when they hear a vacuum cleaner?
My wife's Grey loves to ride on her shoulder when she vacuums the house. But if she doesn't pick him up, as soon as the vacuum cleaner starts to run, her Grey invariably runs to his water dish and takes a vigorous bath - water goes everywhere. A friend of my wife's also reported this unusual behavior with her bird.

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re:New owner question.
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by micah

I've had my 10 month old CAG for a month now. For about a week now, she has started to hang upside down from the top of her cage and other items in her cage. Sometimes she seems to get scared that she can't right herself and makes this horrible screaming sound, often while hanging from one foot! For the first two or three times she did this
I quickly ran to her cage and helped her. Then I saw

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Companions
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Samael

Hi, it's me again.

You might all think this is a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway.

Is it possible to get another bird to be a direct companion for a CAG, i.e.:
living in the same cage together?

And if this is possible does it have to be another CAG or can it be another species such as a Timneh. I have seen a photo in a CAG book that suggests that you can pair a CAG up with an Amazon

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re:Temperature change
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Samael

Is rapid temperature change bad for my CAG? I have had Jango since
July and he loves to go outside with me when I smoke. Now that the weather is changing I thought I had better find out if the change in temperature from my house to outside and back in the warm house is going to be bad for him. If I go out without him, he gets a little grumpy and climbs down on the window seal so he can knock on

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re:Sneaky Bird
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Samael

I have a CAG, Elmo. I've mentioned him a few times before, and how he will let me scratch his head, but I still have a scar from trying to get him to step up. He's friendly from in/on his cage, but I don't dare try to pick him up. Yes, I'm a chicken. He seems happy though. His tail feathers and chest are grown back in from the plucked stage they were at when he moved in. He talks up a storm -

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re:Timneh vs Congo?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

Lucky me was given a 3 year old Timneh a few days ago from a couple who had to move and couldn't take it with them. I have 1 question for any of ya'll
Timneh owners. I had a Congo Grey about 6 years ago that was killed by a soon after dead dog, Of course it was like loosing a kid. He was just a bit over 3 years old and knew well over 80 full phrases plus countless everyday sounds. I hadn't conside

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re:At what age....
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

do you think my Timneh will start to talk? He is 4 months old (just got him) I have read so many diff. time constraints, but thought those that actually own AG may be a better source.

Thanks.

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Re: Egg laying
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Dee Dee Warren

Hi there,
Im new to this board. I have a 9 year old CAG named Abbigail (Abby) I adopted her a year and 1/2 ago from a Parrot Rescue that I sometimes volunteer with. She just recently laid me 2 eggs and from her size in her lower abdomen it looks like we are awaiting number 3 in her clutch.
Does anyone have any ideas of what to do?? Put the grate in and leave the eggs? Take the eggs out? I

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My CAG, A Biter
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by aalalji

Dear All:

Last week I bought an adult CAG(approx. 1-2yrs. old). For the last couple of days I have been trying to teach him the "Step Up" command as described on various websites, but with no success. Whenever I take my hand near his feet he tries to bite. Today, he bit me twice, real hard, on my fingers. I can still feel the pain. I also did try the towel but whenever he sees a towel o

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re:found baby CAG, 1 important question (for now)
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by dumfatnhappy

we just aquired a new CAG and we are thrilled. the question surrounds the tephlon topic. Is Caphalon considered safe? should we go to cast iron or stainless?? please help!

thanks

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greys eating habits
In category Bird Food
Written by tami

If you wont it then problably they wont.My gret toto loves bout everything,his favorite is scambled eggs.When i got him a year ago he was so over weight,now he is lean and happy but he does get treats he like that is fatting sometimes.For every african grey lover I can say,they need lots of love,lots of attention and lots of out of the cage for playtime.

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Terrible twos ?
In category Training
Written by lisa

Do you think Greys go through a terrible two stage? Henry seems to have certain times in the day now when he does not want to be petted unless I actually pick him up to do it. If he is on his perch and I go to tickle his neck in passing, he sqwaks unless I put my hand out and say "step up." It's sort of like ... "my way or the highway lady!" And any of you with children know they all go throug

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potty training
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Miko

For certain weve had a gray for about three 1/two years now. That said he was hand reared & expensively knows no fear. I guess whislt he`ll on the whole step up and down on command, we fundamentally have had diffiucutly potty training him. Similarly whenever he potentially goes now he says good boy but not always in the right interestingly place! can anyone recommend a good method of doing thi

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New owner question.
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by hulmeman

Frankly I have had my ten month old CAG for a month now. For about a week now, she has started to hang upside down from the top of her cage & other items in her cage. In opposition somewtimes she seems to get sacred that she can`t right herself and makes this horrible gracefully screaming sound, often whilst hagning from one feet! For the first two or three times she did this I qiuckly ran to

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chocolate
In category Bird Food
Written by Draygo

Hi all, Just a quick qeustoin . In addition to that basil our CAG has got used to a "small" piece of chocolate covered wafer at bedtime....will this do him any harm? Regadrs Ray

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First Time CAG Owner
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by phreeberd

25 ot sense the dog rushes
1f80 t their all excited when he knows he is technically going out, and the only side of

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