All parrots learn language like human children. If they hear a word that yields interesting results, they remember.
The history of curse words goes back 900 years or so. The history of your parrot’s use of a word, goes back to the day you said it loudly with great drama. Your bird heard the value immediately.

Potty mouth parrots, where those words came from, and how to clean up your parrot’s vocabulary.

Kathy LaFollett
6 min readMar 13

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“Time to take a f***ing shower!” *fartsounds*

Parrots have potty mouths, too. Felix, our African gray, came home with us and brought three phrases with him. All containing the same swear word. His favorite being the one about taking a shower. Did he learn that from being told it was time for his shower…

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