Not a joke.

[cyaneus]

Oh my gosh, I just had the most adorable realization.

My grey likes to say this weird phrase which sounds like "Hi-ey-oh!" and which I figured was just his mashup of "hi/hello!" Cue just now, when my cockatiel Enyo starts singing from across the room and the grey starts repeating "Hi ey oh! Hi ey oh!" over and over.

He's trying to say "Hi, Enyo

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[dreamy]

Precious!

Our Grey calls her sister (given name: Harper) Hupper. She likes to tell her "Enough, Hupper" when she gets loud. The dogs are told enough when they get annoying. Just wait til yours starts tattling on Enyo!

[cyaneus]

Oh he likes to scold people and toys. If he's in a grouchy mood he'll take it out on us by yelling stuff like "Hey! STOP! Cut it out!"

[goddessdi]

Does yours bark? Mine barks sometimes and then laughs when she gets the dogs going. Such a brat.

I swear my fiancee's family is so fascinated by the bird they come over just to listen to her

[dreamy]

She doesn't, amazingly. She calls them constantly though it's always "Ryder! Henry!" or "Come here good boy!" or "Ryder need a kiss" or my favorite, when she's being lazy or too smart (I can't decide...) she abbreviates. "RYDRY!" First half of Ryder, last half of Henry...

She meows on occasion but not with any regularity. She's definitely more of a talking (words) bird than a sound oriented one. She does the obligatory laser beam "pew, pew pew!" and can do the Pillsbury Doughboy "woohoo" when you poke her belly but she speaks up a storm. Scary as she'll just turn two in July...

[angilla]

Haha when I was a teenager... my dog would bark, then my tiel would bark, then my quaker would bark, and the tiel and quaker would bark at each other while the dog looked at them like they were both idiots.