My Cockatiel won't stop calling my grandmother a C*nt,bi*ch,and a wh*re..it's getting a little embarassing.How do I stop this before granny has a heart attack?
2006-08-02 05:02:36 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
Actually I got the bird from someone else..they're the ones that taught him these words.
2006-08-02 05:08:54 · update #1
I'm thinking the person who had it before me knew someone who looked like my Grandma..and they didn't think too highly of her apprently.
2006-08-02 06:34:18 · update #2
Uhh..don't invite your grandmother over anymore..or get rid of the bird.
2006-08-02 05:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by Courtney L 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Birds are huge fans of the dramatic so I have to ask...Do you make a big fuss everytime he says a bad word? Do you gasp and tell him no and shout back at him or laugh or do anything the bird might take as attention when he says those words? They love attention, negative or possitive and if cursing gets him attention he is just going to do it more often. Unfortunatly he already is well into the habit of cursing. It will be very hard to break him of it.
The most important thing to do is not react when he says something you don't want him to say. Birds primarily 'speak' to get your attention...so if he realizes that that doesn't affect you he will try something else. Try teaching him some new words and praise him for saying them when he does. There are a zillion opinions on how to teach them to talk so I wont give you a specific 'right' way becuase only you know what works for your bird.
Try keeping the bird away from your grandma for a while, or at least make sure she understands that the bird doesn't know what it is saying, only that it gets attention when he says it. It is more likely, in fact, that he likes your grandma very much and wants her attention and that is why he says those words becuase he associates it with getting attention.
Ignore the bad words and hope he decides to drop them. Praise the good words to keep him saying them. It is really the only thing you can do. Punishing him is still giving him attention and so it wont really work...
2006-08-02 07:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by Krys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well first of all it didnt learn how to say those words all on its own cockatiel repeat what they hear and it must of heard someone say those words... but after hearing those words once he wouldn't of learned so he must of heard those words more than once.... it is suprising to me because it talks a long time to teach a bird to talk belive me i know.... and it take even longer to make the bird stop saying the words they have already learned. all you should do is just try to teach it new words and talk good about ur grama infront of the bird. but until the bird has learned new good words about your grama i would leave it in a quiet room when ur grama comes over... now to teach your bird new words you have to keep saying the same thin over and over again and make sure you have treats on hand..... also when training ur bird make sure its in a quiet room...and eveytime it says somethin that you said that was nice give it a treat..... and when the bird has stopped.... you and your family should not say bad things infront of ur bird as if it were a little kid you shoul;d never say mean things infront of a little kid and not infron of ur bird either.
2006-08-02 06:35:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LMAO
Crazy ppl taught the birdie to swear... ain't that cute.
The only thing you can do is retrain. It will take a lot of time and patience. If he swears, grab his beak and say no..... spraying him with a burst of water also helps.
Teach him to day Hello and other nice words. and make sure that the DOES NOT year those words again, because he will pick it up.
2006-08-02 06:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anna g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every time it says a curse word, say a word that sounds almost the same but not quite, eventually the bird will start imitating you and forget the curse words. It will be screaming a lot of random words, but its better than cursing.
2006-08-02 07:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by jerrri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its impossible. There is a chance that if you teach him to say a lot of other words he will use the bad ones less, but not going to forget the bad words. By the way, maybe hes calling you these names and not granny? :)
2006-08-02 05:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by WriterMom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to teach it some other words to associate with grandmother.
keep the bird in the other room when grandmother comes to visit, until it is under control.
2006-08-02 05:06:57 · answer #7 · answered by lrad1952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is true its actually REALLY funny, but why would it associate your grandma with those words and not anyone else? Sounds fishy to me. If you are telling the truth then everytime it says that you need to flick his cage, he'll associate those words with an uncomfortable noise and should stop using them.
2006-08-02 05:16:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that's how you really feel about grandma? Stop cursing around the bird. It can't learn those words if you don't say them. I suggest working on your potty mouth as well.
2006-08-02 06:02:07 · answer #9 · answered by L-Rad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I broke my bird from cussing by taking his food & water bowls & favorite toy away for 10 minutes every time he said a bad word. It took about a month & he stopped it.
2006-08-02 09:05:08 · answer #10 · answered by nanacanso 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LMAO....now that's funny! I seriously don't think that this bird learned these words all by itself. Cockatiels tend to repeat what they hear.
Frends of ours own a cockatiel and every time "she" (the wife) goes near it, it says "hi sweetheart" and every time "he" (the husband) goes by it, it says "f***in' bastard". Now what does that tell ya???
2006-08-02 05:08:41 · answer #11 · answered by trueblond195 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋