Captain Jack Sparrow - an update

All pets have personalities, and watching Jack’s develop over the last few months has been interesting.   Sometimes when he does something or cocks his head a certain way, I can’t help but wonder what he is thinking.

I have no idea what you are doing.

What are you doing?

What ARE you doing?!?

What are you doing?

Watcha doing?

He has this game he likes to play, where he throws all his toys out the bowl onto the floor. One by one. And then he throws the bowl. And then he waits for me to pick them all up so that he can do it all again.

Jack's stand minus the bowl of toys which I haven't picked up since the last time he threw them all over the lounge

The African Grey motto is "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine." Anything you have in your hands, he will try and grab. While you are using it. Be it a pen, a book or a cellphone. Don't leave anything unattended. It will get destroyed. 

He likes to sneak up and chew on my internet dongle when I am not looking.  He also likes to bite on my keyboard and pull the keys off. Yes, they come off. Luckily they snap back on.

If he climbs onto my lap while I am busy on my laptop I have to hastily distract him with something before he pulls of my keys. Sometimes it is a pencap.

Sometimes it is pen. Sometimes he takes the pen from me while I am writing.

He also likes chewing on the cord of my camera while I am trying to take pictures

He has decided that pot plants make good landing posts. Except I don't have pot plants - I have an orchid and a bonzai tree. Neither of which is large enough to support a bird's weight.  The orchid leaves are not currently in the best state. I have tried to curb this by putting leaves in his cage - lettuce, spinach and celery leaves for now, and he seems to enjoy shredding them to bits. 

It's sometimes hard to get a photograph of him cos he moves suddenly all the time. He does NOT understand the terms "Smile for the camera" or "Hold that pose". I was just sorting through my photographs, and there are so many blurs ... kind of makes him looked possessed.

He is very interested with my camera. He likes to put his tongue against the lens and sometimes he tries to bite it. Luckily my camera has so far survived.

But sometimes I actually get a really nice picture.

I have over 300 pictures of him, and over 50 videos. Obsessive? Maybe ... but he is so cute, I really can't help myself sometimes.