Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian
I have a yellow parakeet named Buttercup, and basically she's just a pain in my butt.
J/K, really, she's not interesting like some of your birds. She doesn't talk or anything, but if you run the water in the sink she babbles on, sometimes she just starts screaming for no reason. She tries to babble over the sound of Sasha's nintendo games ( to be fair, the final fantasy music drives me crazy too) and she can hold a pretty good conversation with my sewing machine, lol!
We do NOT let her out of her cage, she's not tame at all. She bites, and doens't really know how to fly very well since we don't let her out, so she'll fly right into the wall, or into the window, and my siamese cat would very much like to eat her for lunch. She's kept in a pretty big cage, high up in the living room.
Most birds like to take baths - maybe that's why she responds when she hears running water. She might like a small dish of lukewarm water to bathe in sometimes. It may take her a few times until she gets into the water, but once she does, she'll love it. And, it's fun to watch a bird taking a bath.
Birds have a reason for everything they do. We just don't always know what the reasons are. :-)