How fast does a pigeon have to run on a treadmill to take off?

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Apparently, faster than this:

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Probably would've been pecked for their trouble. Critters are ungrateful.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
Probably would've been pecked for their trouble. Critters are naturally afraid of predators 100 times their size getting too close to them.
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FTFY. :)

It's been fun to tame our African Grey, who was around humans her whole life but spent a lot of time in her cage. Now I can just scoop her up without complaint.
 
Does she talk much? I had a Quaker that called the cats :-) and whispered and other interesting things. African grays are pretty neat birds
 
Her main words are "Woah!" and "No." She also makes a number of noises, but doesn't speak much English yet.

She's a really neat bird. Very smart and fun.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
Her main words are "Woah!" and "No." She also makes a number of noises, but doesn't speak much English yet.

She's a really neat bird. Very smart and fun.
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But can she fly off a treadmill?
 
I too take the sympathetic approach to a bird that seems to be having a problem. I have a 23 year old Blue and Gold Macaw that I have had since he was 4 months old.
 
flightmedic said:
I too take the sympathetic approach to a bird that seems to be having a problem. I have a 23 year old Blue and Gold Macaw that I have had since he was 4 months old.
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I would think he would be a little tough, but slow roasting might help. ;)

Seriously, that is a long time for a bird as a pet.
 
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I had Pickle, the Quaker, starting when he was a baby and had to be fed gruel from a spoon.. He learned "thank you" early on and then when he was older and wanted a treat he would scream THAAAANK YOU to get attention. He also made a noise like the back door squeaking whenever I went to the garage. But the funniest was when he would call the cats... They finally figured it out and quit responding.
what is your macaws name?
 
If you google pigeon on an escalator, not only does google auto-fill the word for you, you would be surprised at how many links come up. Is this a common thing?
 
We know you can take off on a treadmill, his issue is he's trying to take off going uphill.
 
My blue and Gold has about a 25 word vocabulary. I never tried to teach him, he just picked up on things. A couple of the funnier things he says are "A**hole" which he said every time I hung up the phone. I think he got that from when I first became the Union Vice President. He also would stay with my Aunt when I was on vacation and he learned to yell "GET OUT" in a perfect rendition of my Aunts voice whenever her dog came in his room. You should have seen the dog run when he yelled that.
 
For bang-for-the-buck, it's tough to beat a $15 parakeet. I've had several, and my last one was the best. Left his cage open all the time, and when I walked in the door from work, he'd come find me and hang out with me for most of the evening. He had about a 25-phrase vocabulary ("Didja get the birdseed?" "Birds can't talk!" "I tawt I taw a putty tat!" Etc.), and was very friendly and approachable to strangers.

Biggest problem is that they don't live too long, even with carefully controlled diets and other precautions. My vet calls them "little tumor factories". Longest I've kept one is 8 years, but it's been 3-6 for the others.
 
Jeanie said:
I didn't know parakeets talked! Cool
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Parakeets do indeed talk, just takes time to work with them. We had two that both talked. They also loved to fly up and sit on the blades of the living room ceiling fan. I would bump the switch on and off and the fan would just slowly turn and they would just sit there like it was a Merry-Go-Round. Now we just have our two Cockatiels and a Sengal Parrot.
 

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When you let them fly around, how do you keep them from crapping all over the house?

I'd consider owning a bird but I don't want it pooping everywhere and I don't want to keep it in a cage all the time. Also I'd have to train my duck-fetching labrador not to fetch the bird and that may confuse him.
 
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dell30rb said:
When you let them fly around, how do you keep them from crapping all over the house?
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Some of the larger birds can be trained to only leave droppings in certain places or to go "on command". In my experience, birds don't go "all over the house"; they have a handful of favorite roosting places, and if you let them out and they take off, you'll find them in one of those spots. If you leave them out unsupervised, then droppings will tend to be in those places.

With a small bird like a parakeet, the droppings are pretty small. I always keep a Kleenex in my pocket, and when I see a dropping, I tear off a small piece of tissue, wipe it up, and toss it. Sometimes you miss 'em when they happen, and later on you'll find a dried up dropping somewhere. It's not the end of the world.

When you love your cat, cleaning the litter box is no big deal. When you love your dog, scooping the poop is no big deal. Same with a bird...
 
Can't remember the last time i scooped poop. The benefits of having a yard bigger than a postage stamp.. and a dog who prefers to poop in the woods.

A parakeet does not seem too bad.. I guess I could figure out his roosting spots and put a towel down or something
 
My macaw has his wings clipped and doesn't know he can fly. I'm not even sure he knows he's a bird. He has a cage that is surrounded by bed sheets. When I am home the cage door is open he lives in and around his cage and never leaves the area unless there is something that catches his eye and is to irresistible. Like a paper bag or something. Then he will climb down the cage, walk over to whatever it is, carry it back and play with it near or on top of his cage. the sheets are easy clean up.
 
For solid surfaces (tile, wood), you can just wipe up after the fact. For fabric (couches / drapes), you might want to lay something down, but it's really not a big deal. If there's any residue, usually a damp towel is all the cleaning agent you need.
 
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