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Johari is TALKING!!!

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bubblelady

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I have a 17 month old green cheeked conure (Gussie) whose favorite word is "baby". Several times this week end I heard "baby" but not coming from where Gussie was. I just figured my aging ears were having sound localization problems. But just now I heard it again....repeatedly....while Gussie was sitting on my knee preening herself. It's Johari, my 3 month old Lovebird! And she sounds exactly like Gussie. What a smart little baby! :heart:
 

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Oh, I should have mentioned...that's Gussie's cage she's in. She escaped from her own cage, in another room, while supposedly in QT, and marched herself through the apartment & into Gussie's cage, while Gussie was out playing with me! I swear, the look on her face is saying, "What!!!"
 

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LOL Caught in the act!!! Guilty!
 

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Haha! That must be a nice little surprise for you. :D It's always such a joy when you hear them talk for the first time!!
 

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That is so cool! I didn't know lovebirds could talk!! I've never heard it!
 

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I have a 17 month old green cheeked conure (Gussie) whose favorite word is "baby". Several times this week end I heard "baby" but not coming from where Gussie was. I just figured my aging ears were having sound localization problems. But just now I heard it again....repeatedly....while Gussie was sitting on my knee preening herself. It's Johari, my 3 month old Lovebird! And she sounds exactly like Gussie. What a smart little baby! :heart:
Oh my gosh, she is so so cute:)

Vicki
 

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WOW! what a cute lovebird!
 

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Adorable and smart!!!
 

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Oh how cute! I've been looking at Tamara and Rodney's site and falling in love with their babies.

Johari is beautiful! :hug8:
 

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smart and cute as all get out!!!
 

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Wow you have a talker. Very rare.

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I had never heard of a lovie talking either. How precious! She's a clever little thing with her talking, mimicking AND escaping! hehe
 

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You gotta love it, when you least expect it! :dancing:
 

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I assumed they could talk, since parrotlets can. But it is rare. Congrats :)
 

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WTG Johari:dance4::dance4::dance4:
 

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I used to think they couldn't talk, too. So when my first (male) lovie didn't talk I thought nothing of it. But my second lovie, a hen, started using the vocal quality that my budgies used when they talked. I told the vet it sounded almost like she was trying to talk. He said, "She probably is." "But lovebirds can't talk!" I said. "Yes they can." he replied. "They just can't talk very well":hehe: Since then I've "met" a number of talking lovies...all of them hens, and none with a large vocabulary. Buddy, my first talking lovie, had only one word in human, but she did make budgie noises when I got her (should have been my first clue, doh) and learned to peep like my canary. (The canary also learned to give the lovies' "Come and let me out of my cage now!" squawk) so I said Buddy was multilingual. :rofl: But she didn't learn her word (also "baby") until about 3 years old. Johari is only 3 monthsold & has been out of QT less than a month. I didn't think I'd be lucky enough to have 2 out of my 3 lovies turn out to be talkers. So now I have a GCC that talks, a Fischer's Lovebird who talks and does GCC impressions (started that yesterday) and a canary that does lovebird impressions. I'm a pediatric speech therapist, so I guess you could say this is a very vocal flock! :rofl::rofl::rofl:
 

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I used to think they couldn't talk, too. So when my first (male) lovie didn't talk I thought nothing of it. But my second lovie, a hen, started using the vocal quality that my budgies used when they talked. I told the vet it sounded almost like she was trying to talk. He said, "She probably is." "But lovebirds can't talk!" I said. "Yes they can." he replied. "They just can't talk very well":hehe: Since then I've "met" a number of talking lovies...all of them hens, and none with a large vocabulary. Buddy, my first talking lovie, had only one word in human, but she did make budgie noises when I got her (should have been my first clue, doh) and learned to peep like my canary. (The canary also learned to give the lovies' "Come and let me out of my cage now!" squawk) so I said Buddy was multilingual. :rofl: But she didn't learn her word (also "baby") until about 3 years old. Johari is only 3 monthsold & has been out of QT less than a month. I didn't think I'd be lucky enough to have 2 out of my 3 lovies turn out to be talkers. So now I have a GCC that talks, a Fischer's Lovebird who talks and does GCC impressions (started that yesterday) and a canary that does lovebird impressions. I'm a pediatric speech therapist, so I guess you could say this is a very vocal flock! :rofl::rofl::rofl:
yes, you have a very vocal flock :hehe:
 
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