 This has been pretty different for me because I've been in a position where birds don't come out of the cage let's say because they're shy or they don't come off their cage but not in a position where like Brando like acts like he's never seen certain things before so I said to George I'm like is he not smart? Hello my fellow Snifers and Flighters my name is Marlene McCohen and welcome to my channel for those of you who are new here let me know that you're new let me know that you subscribed and hit that notification bell so I can welcome you appropriately I'm in my bed why am I in my bed because we are going to do kind of like a Brando update and I'm gonna go over Brando's schedule with you and I bet you guys are excited to know what happens here what his personality is like but before I go on and show you his cuteness because you guys are gonna see he's changed like he changes so quickly should have made this guy an Instagram I swear before I show you Brando make sure to check out my links below check out my new organic parrot food with tops as well as our subscription boxes which you want to get in on quickly because the window to subscribe to them is very short no idea why so let's start from the morning I'm sleeping in my bed okay you guys know not like an early riser and at 7 30 something very dramatic happens okay talk about naming and Brando I have never seen an animal act this bird knows how to act so here's what happened the first morning I'm sleeping and I hear this flapping and it's like crazy flapping and I'm like oh my god it's the kind of flapping you hear when a bird is like literally distressed because his wing is stuck in between bars and like if you don't like help him he's gonna have a blood feather or just like have a heart attack because he's panicking so I wake up and you know when you cover a bird and like there's a little section on the bottom that like the blanket just didn't get well I turn around and I look I swear two seconds previously he was all dramatic and he just stands there like this and poses like so you're gonna get me out or what and I'm like you seriously just acted all that and he literally did it day after day yeah he's a dramatic bird that knows how to act shouldn't have named him Brando but I'm pretty happy I did also loves his toys he likes to play with them and fight with them and then when they come back at him he yells at them okay look he's very dramatic he also will want you to pet him and then yell at your finger so then I open the cage and then I bring him out and then I literally laid down with him I don't sleep with him it's not safe to sleep with your birdies like in a way that you know you could crush him I literally like cuddle him for like half an hour well actually here's the truth first I bring him out I give him kisses and then I put him back up here I'll tell you why cuz I want to teach him to go potty so I put him right up here cuz you know birds will hold it and this is a good time in the morning to test it out and I'll sit him right there and I'll say go potty and then I won't pick him up until he does but can we just take a moment to show you how beautiful he is well look at all that black on the beak like just started happening so fast so guys watch like he wants to step up and then sometimes he's dramatic about it okay wanna step up like he does this at the same time is stepping up you know you're very true today got his head stuck in between his toys not stuck like he put his head through to see me cuz I tested him out I didn't let him out right away like I let him out but I didn't like go to get him I wanted to see how hard he would try that something you want to do to create a smart bird to you don't want to do everything for them those are his new noises you want to like see what they can learn to do themselves you could see because so never made any other noises like this let's say I put him down here okay I leave the door open but I just want to see like they're smart so today when he woke up and George woke up he wanted to see George but he didn't know how so he did all sorts of acrobatic stuff on top of the cage but he didn't know what to do just want to like give them their own courage and like teach them how to fledge a little bit themselves clearly he's not a fledgling but you know what I mean like this is basically if I keep aiding them then I'll create a very dependent bird so it's important for me to create an independent bird but also to observe and see how they learn he's so curious about stuff he has his little way he likes to go up on the swing and then go over to play with his toys so cute so what I'm trying to say is that like observe a lot about what he's doing and sometimes if you need to help with something that I know he could do himself I don't help him because that's how you create some independence to see watch I just love to see what he thinks he's doing right he wants to come but he's thinking about how to do it so a lot of times someone would just pick him up but I want to see him like try to make his way here you know what I mean and he'll go so far and then it'll hesitate like shouldn't you be picking me up right now yeah so like from there it's like where does he step you know like he doesn't know where to step so we have to see what he tries to do ideally he would you could tell like his feet aren't super strong yet I can tell just by the way things he does and his coordination isn't the best what are you gonna do like he'll go back you see he plays with the toys and then he yells at them this has been pretty different for me because rescue birds they already have like a certain sense about them every time you get a bird they're gonna be shy and it's gonna take them a while to come into their own like it takes time like there are things I didn't know about Vinny for years honestly like just the more you like get to know with them bond with them play with them birds will always just deliver new things I've been in a position where birds don't come out of the cage let's say because they're shy or they don't come off their cage but not in a position where like Brando like acts like he's never seen certain things before because he has it so I said at George I'm like is he not smart but he is smart it just very new to me because there's a certain sense that older birds have even if they're new to the environment you just have a certain sense about certain things you know Brando not so much he's just really funny like that guys so check this out in the morning George cuddles him like this and then Brando makes all these yeah he makes all these like half cute noises half angry noises which are also cute so let's watch him do it Vinny yells at my finger he makes kissing noises cuz I like when he's mad you can't react too bad or take it personally if they bite also like because I know mustache parakeets my first mustache parakeet Malibu talked he said hello and pretty bird and obviously you guys know the mustache parakeet going around right now talking about the babies so I try to make different noises when he's in that mood to make noises so for example he's making all these like I try to go speaking in his tone do you know what I mean like yeah because it'll help him pick it up yeah yeah so what I try to do is like if I find a tone that he's comfortable making a noise in I try to match that tone and say words in it so it wouldn't be so far of a reach does that make sense I don't know if it will work but do you guys remember when I taught Jersey how to sing and her favorite song she always danced to it and then one day I was like what if I do her terrible voice and go like in her cock to scream and she literally learned it in a minute he does this half the time and then the other half the time he just wants to be called but I like to do this because I'd like even if he's like it's a little feisty at least he's making noises and then for those of you nude having a bird or a parrot let's say you have a baby and you're considering like and you really want to potty train up so he's a baby I'll be like you know I kind of noticed that every 20 minutes he might want to go potty then after playing with him for a while see look at these hands aren't even going near him but they alert him okay yeah so now he's being particular feisty his best moments are in the morning he's a very morning bird so then if you notice oh like maybe 20 minutes maybe half an hour is passed by then you go put the bird back and you tell him to go potty chances are he will go potty and another way you could do this is there are certain times a bird is always going to go potty one of those is before they take flight that's an indication that they may be about to fly it just depends on if you have a flight at birth before they eat something they'll release that extra weight like if they say food see food they might like go potty to like ingest the new food I'm not saying that's always what it means I'm also not saying those are the only things it could be just go potty but just keep a look out for those things because if you show your bird food and he's about you know he's about to go potty because that's what he does then you say go potty and he'll start associating that with oh and then I got the food so he's never having to withhold a cheese so what I'm saying is if you can guess that they're gonna go potty because you've kind of learned when they're gonna do it and then you start saying that word right before it'll seem like such a amazing coincidence also when they fluff like that they might be going potty you know just things like that then when you say go potty and then they do more so because you knew they would do it not because they did it for you then when you say it when you want them to go potty they'll understand that doesn't mean that they can't go potty you know in between you doing that it just means that they might understand that this is what you want them to do or they might learn to tell you go potty you know what I mean that's what George did and Picasso used to kind of do not say it but he's to fly back and go potty I don't know if you know anyone else that had that much of a potty trained bird but yeah Picasso would fly to his stand to go potty and fly back to me you are feisty my love for Brando is really beginning to grow as far as like a rescue versus baby I don't know I have an automatic a love for rescues like I don't think I don't know if my love would be deeper for Brando I don't think so I think like just the history of certain birds and their stories and like them not being in the best homes and coming to me just gives me an automatic like deep deep love and understanding for them the brandos like a baby but my love grows for my birds all the time just different birds like the bond just grows and changes and you want to go potty go potty yeah floofers so if he doesn't go potty right away because I actually saw him go potty like 10 minutes ago so it's probably too soon I might leave him there until he does and then when I see him we got to keep an eye on him I'll bring him out and go yay good bird and give him like hugs so that he understands like not that he has to but that this is his kind of chance and that he'll get out again what else do you do Brando? he literally has one bath a day okay like this guy wakes up and grooms himself like he wakes up and has like a shower like just so interesting he hasn't met the other birds yet so it's mostly about me coming up and hanging out with him I literally spent all morning with him he gets my first attention he's still eating the kind of mix from the bird store but I've added my pellets in there and he really likes them so that's exciting but I haven't switched him to like 100% my food yet actually I'd run out of the one for small birds so I gave him the one for large birds and he was fine with that I saw it all crumpled up he also takes the pellets that he had from the store he takes them and dips them in his water and makes himself like breakfast very active bird go potty good bird so now because he went potty I'm going to take him does that make sense like and then you hang out with your bird longer you know what I mean and then eventually they'll kind of learn to like go back to the spot so in the morning I bring him in with me and then he hangs with me but then after a while he'll wander over to George and like want attention from George it's cute because it's like I'm really trying to make sure that George socializes him with himself like he did with Merlin sometimes I'll come in here and George is playing video games and Brando's just sitting with him Brando gets a lot of love and attention Vinny met him we were hiding him I brought him down to show Jenna Jenna's reaction to him being here in the house I didn't put up here I ended up putting it on my Patreon she was holding Brando and literally Vinny came over to investigate jumped on Jenna's head and freaked out it was so funny he was mad obviously and Jenna's like get him off my head I want to tell you guys something interesting that I realized about getting a new bird obviously you know I didn't get Brando until a year after Picasso left I always said that one day I'd get a baby mustache parakeet so you guys knew that but I wasn't looking for one you guys saw how this happened anyhow I know a lot of people feel this way because so do I it's like you don't want to run out and get another animal real fast after something happened to your animal but having the same kind of bird like when Cody came back into my life I remembered everything about George that I had forgotten because Cody did all these things and then even when Merlin came I remembered even more things about George that I'd forgotten it's so easy to forget all the details that you think you remember but just having Brando like there's certain things he does it just kind of reminds me of Picasso like in the middle of the night if I cough he like yells back at me kind of like are you okay like it just I don't know like these birds I think they have some sort of empathy that I haven't seen in other birds a lot of birds have empathy and a lot of my birds have empathy but there's something about these birds I don't know what it is it's just like they understand you guys know that Picasso used to fly over if I cough he would fly over to my shoulder and like start looking like to see if I'm okay and if I stop coughing he'd fly away and then if I coughed again he'd fly back he really just cared and then just this guy the fact that like at night if I cough and he's all covered he has to say something about it was fascinating to me let me show you the other birds I heard you giving a lot of speeches today I hope you guys really enjoyed this Brando update hey guys the feather fun box is our new subscription box of toys treats and other surprises for you and your bird so don't forget to check the link below and get in on that and guys don't forget to check out my new line of organic bird food called Marlene signature blend made with tops for small and large birds I love that you guys are sharing it on social media if you tag me in your Instagram 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