Mine!!!

[kendrafitz]

I have always read and been amused by the parrot mantra, what's mine is mine..etc. Rosie never seemed to go with that whole thing, except for her food dish on her tree. She is very possessive of it, I have to put food in it before I put her on it or she gets snippy.

Yesterday I was trying to get her to play with some foot toys instead of destroying my couch as she was determined to do. She didn't have much interest. Until she saw me playing with them. She ran over, grabbed the toy and threw it on the floor. I picked it up and started playing and she repeated her grab/throw. Which sent me into a fit of giggles. We repeated this more times than I can count. She did play with the toys a bit here and there before throwing them, but mostly just threw them.

So I guess she really is a parrot that agrees with the mantra. What's mine is mine, even if I don't want it. Ha!!! Bratty bird!

Anyone else have a similar experience?

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Haha I love the term snippy. Casper is very good at throwing things that you pass to him that he doesn't really want.
"Would you like this?": Give him a brightly coloured piece of wood that you think he might like to shred into matchwood, he takes it from you and throws it on the floor. Bend down and pick it up so you can give it back to make sure that he didn't just drop it and he throws it as far as he can. "that'll be a no then!"

[Mare]

Cute stories, Kendra and Jean-Pierre :). Amigo is a tosser of food that he doesn't want in his food bowl. When I feed them in the evening, I'll hear "plop", "plop", "plop"..food hitting the bottom of his cage before I'm even out of the room! I guess he's just in a hurry to get to the good stuff :)

[Dragonlady2]

My Ekkie does the same with his foot toys, However, I like to call it playing catch. He throws it....I am supposed to catch, or fetch it.
He even plays catch with himself. He has a collection of wooden pods that will roll on the floor when he tosses them in the air.

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Cute stories, Kendra and Jean-Pierre :). Amigo is a tosser of food that he doesn't want in his food bowl. When I feed them in the evening, I'll hear "plop", "plop", "plop"..food hitting the bottom of his cage before I'm even out of the room! I guess he's just in a hurry to get to the good stuff :)

I'm not sure what is their rationale for throwing stuff out, some of Casper's Harrison's pellets get chucked straight away for no apparent reason. If he catches us looking at him while he is eating whatever he has hold of gets chucked.
Whilst we put his fruit in a separate bowl to his pellets he carefully carries the stuff he wants over to his pellets bowl before eating it (perhaps because he can keep an eye on us from there)
Margaret tells Casper "you're not in the jungle now, I have to pay for that" as perfectly good food get arbitrarily rejected. :)

[The Pinkertons]

Bella's latest obsession is to steal the post-it paper packs that open like an accordion, I chase her around the room yelling drop it Bella. I gave her a few to play with feeling guilty I may be depriving her of "enrichment" she wanted nothing to do with them at that point. I realized, she thoroughly enjoys Me to chase her around carrying on like a raging idiot. What she finds amusing is being a thief ! and getting into my stuff.

[The Pinkertons]

I'm not sure what is their rationale for throwing stuff out

I think, it's part of what birds do instinctually by design. In the wild, it would keep vegetative life in check and balance. Simply put they're the farmers of the earth.

[Lady]

I need to teach Lady how to make compost so she can enrich the seeds that end up on the earth for the outside birds :pinkgrin:.

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Alice, Casper is very good at making lots of compost, the quality varies depending on his diet. :)
Suzanne, I love the idea of you chasing after your post-it pads, Casper loves to toddle off with ball-point pens, he pulls the little stopper out of the end of the crystalite tube then splits it down the length as though he is opening a pea pod. Fortunately he never bites into the ink reservoir tube, it obviously does not have the same tactile qualities. "Bring that back, it's mine" has no effect.

[The Pinkertons]

"Bring that back, it's mine" has no effect.
I hear ya on that !