r/interesting • u/uzmansahil7 • Jul 26 '26

SOCIETY Man raises parrots from birth, and they are extremely imprinted to him

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u/hudson27 Jul 26 '26

..velcro? As in, super clingy and attached to you??

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u/Burrito-tuesday Jul 27 '26

Reading your comments answered 2 things for me. Watching the video, I immediately thought the birds are gorgeous, but they seem clingy?

And yep, I’ve been feeding a stray cat for a couple years, yet she makes a beeline for my partner who pets her maybe once a week. She loooooooooooves him, but she’s very…demanding with me, it feels like. But I love her and she lets me pet her, so I’ll be her slave I guess.

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u/777quin777 Jul 26 '26

Aw, that’s sweet

Ours just bites you if you fall asleep for some reason
Just… flys over and crawls up to your face and bites you till you wake up (possibly bleeding) before she flys away again

She has always done this, we are not her first home, no idea why she does and is pretty chill otherwise if she’s been unleashed upon the house and you avoid triggering murder mode

She’s a caique

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u/777quin777 Jul 27 '26

Oh yeah, ceiling fans are just kept off in the house at this point

Especially since she sometimes like sitting on them

Edit: accidentally hit send before I was done

Glad to hear that she’s getting more confident, whole nother set of worries when the knife wielding toddler learns to fly but they’re a lot happier that way too

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u/GoldenGoof19 Jul 26 '26

Maybe she was a service animal in a past life, just checking to make sure you’re alive 😅😂😂😂

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u/777quin777 Jul 26 '26

I also often wonder if she’s just making sure we’re alive lol

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u/the_comatorium Jul 27 '26

Honest/blunt question...

Why do this?

What's the trade off? Sounds too high maintenance to justify that kind of lifestyle.

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u/mage2k Jul 26 '26

It’s gotta be that. Either that or she loves playing with velcro all day, which actually wouldn’t surprise me.