"I want YOUR food"

[sora no tori]

Anyone else have this odd little issue? Logan wants to eat whatever I'm eating. It's great for getting him to try new foods--it's how I got him to try peas, corn, sweet potato, dried papaya, banana, apple, orange, and eggs (his favorite)--but when I'm eating something he has no business trying to eat, I worry. For example, this morning I sat down to a breakfast of toaster waffles. Before I added the butter and syrup and whatnot, I broke off a piece for him to munch on hoping it would keep him happy. Well, he nibbled on his piece of waffle for a minute, then I saw his beady bird eyes steal a glance at my plate, then at me, and started to creep over (because I'm totally not going to notice the bird sneaking up on my breakfast ). I shooed him away and gave him his own piece of waffle again, but in a truly toddler-like manner, he didn't want his own food. He wants my food. I guess I could just keep him in his cage while I eat. What foods do your parrots try to pilfer from you? What's something they've eaten they they maybe should not have? Share a tale!

[GlassOnion]

Hahahah! I know those beady bird eyes... My tiel gives me the same! Mine will demonstrate all sorts of affectionate behaviours I didn't know he was capable of, when I eat Bits N Bites or other crunchy snacks.

[Munchy]

My Disney always wants what I have. Unless it is something he can have, I eat with him in the cage. Otherwise he is stubborn and won't quit until he gets what he wants. He also gives me the I want what you have eye.

[liz]

My kids are spoiled. I fix them a plate before I eat mine.

Rambo sneeked up on my Mom and got her coffee. Another time when she wasn't paying attention he bit her fried chicken.

[TheNzJessie]

well in bird society eating is a flock thing to do so if your eating without him he feels excluded out of the flock and wants to be part of the flock

[Munchy]

Disney eats when we eat, he just eats in his cage.

[FionaNavas]

Sky is the same. Although we have a perfectly good bar in the kitchen to eat off of we are more of a TV Dinner family . So Sky usually recieves a small bite of what we are eating after giving us the formentiond 'I want what your eating' eye.

Here is a list of some of her more unusal menu's

Marmite on Toast
Potato Waffle
Spagetti
Fish Finger
HobNob Biscuit (NEVER AGAIN )

We only give it to her once however then we ignore her no matter how persitant she gets. She eventualy gets the message and has a strop .

[liz]

All my kids like toast and scrambledeggs for breakfast (very small portion of course).
If I have cereal, they get cereal. etc.

For lunch they get whatever fruit or veggie I have and the same with supper. Spagetti is a favorite but I have to wipe Rambo's beak and he doesn't like it. Myrtle lets me use a napkin for her. The tiels get it off each other. My lovebirds don't like spagetti.

The worst was when Rambo demanded a marshmellow Easter chick. I finally gave in. We had to pin him to get the sticky off but he loved his chick.

[Maria]

Disney eats when we eat, he just eats in his cage.

Yes, this type of amazing bird behavior is a sign of their bonding, loyalty and love. I'd asked the owner of the parrot shop why it seems my bird waits for me to sit down and eat, after I've filled his food bowl, and why it seems he won't go to sleep until he sees me lie down. And that's what she explained to me. She said they're flock animals, they do what the flock do. They sleep when you sleep and they eat when you eat. And she said it's part of their bonding nature, and their loyalty and love for their person. She said be glad he loves you so much. So now I got smart, I fix my food first, then I do his feeding bowls, so that when I'm done with his bowls, I can sit down and eat right away, and this way he doesn't have to wait for me to eat haha. If I get up like in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom or something, he wakes up, and he won't go back to sleep until he sees me come back and lay down too. He just calls me, "Mama, mama, come on!" LOL.

Like outside birds, if they are all eating together, in the flock, and one bird happens to fly off and do something else, they're going to wonder where that bird is, what that bird is doing, kind of worry about that bird, and stop eating for a bit, while they're worrying about that bird which flew off.