 And then something else crazy happens, guys. Oh my God. Remember my top 10 worst bites video? Well, because this is familiar. Look what happened. Not even from Merlin. So my sniffer is today is day two with Merlin. Good morning. For those of you who are newbies, welcome. I hope I can make you a sniffer. Here we go. Today, ah, he's already looking at me. It's day two. I'm gonna wake Merlin up. You wanna come wake him up? George wants all the attention. Merlin. Wow, George. Look at those pants. Yeah. They're Thailand-based pants. Hello there, Merlin. See if he'll step up like. Good morning, buddy. Let's see if he'll step up to you being as like, he knows he's gonna be out. Hello. Wanna come out? Step up? Yeah. Okay, now don't let him stay on the couch. Think of him being away somewhere. Come on, Merlin. Where he can be included. He's going in there. Are you hungry? Here you go, baby. Again, you guys see that Merlin's perched right here on the chair. It's just another easy way to get them included. So, for example, birds being able to perch in lots of different areas in the house, they immediately know that they can just go everywhere with you and there would be a spot for him. Merlin, wanna step up? Step up? This is day two. Oh yeah, Merlin, look. Guys, since my lens is broken from the parrot rescue and the drain, that part where Merlin walks up to the fridge didn't take, but I'll get it again. I'm sure he'll do it later. But anyway, George made him some breakfast. So, he's eating. He's pretty happy. Extremely food-driven bird. All the birds are kind of obsessed with their breakfast. Georgie refuses to eat it in the cage. It's rice scrambled with eggs. Vinnie's loving it. Look at your beak. It's that we got Merlin on a Friday, so George would be home for the weekend and then we would have all weekends for us both to socialize with Merlin equally because the first few days, the imprint is very important. But it's not just the first few days. Like, George could spend a lot of good time with him this whole weekend and then over the week, I could get him attached to just me, but I really don't wanna do that. I want him to love both of us, you know? We'll see what happens. Okay, guys, so here are the things that have happened so far today with Merlin. This is Jersey. She's eating her pomela, or pomelo. I don't know what you call it in English. And Merlin is Brett. Okay, first thing that happened was George went over to work on his computer and Merlin flew over to him and hung out. That was one exciting thing. What? And the other thing was then it had been hours and Merlin was just chilling with George and then later he was chilling on a stand while George was watching TV. And then we brought out dinner and Merlin's cage is not in the kitchen. And I kid you not, he flew in here, landed right here and we picked him up and he said, want some? Like, he's hungry and he was like, want some? So every time we're eating something he wants, he says, want some? I can't believe it. It's pretty amazing. I mean, for him to like talk and communicate and die to be integrated on like day two, today's day two, I think is pretty amazing. I haven't formally introduced him to any of the birds, but obviously he sees them. I'm gonna do that soon. So that's what's happened so far. Has he said anything else today that you remember? He barked. Oh yeah, he barked. Yeah, he's like, yeah, I did. Yeah. What else did he do? Oh, he said hi to you or something, right? He said I was with Merlin. Oh yeah, didn't he say Marlin? It sounded like Marlin. Oh my God, and when he said George. And he said George. He said George. So awkward. Oh, let's show them how we taught him to say our names. So this is how we teach him. George left and I said, George, come here. And then George comes and I say, hi George, how are you? How you doing? Then I leave. Merlin, come here. Hi. So we've been doing this in front of him to show him our names. That's how you teach an African gray. Obviously you saw George walk away. Then you saw me walk away. And what he's gonna win is from that is a result. He's gonna see that when George says, Merlin, come here. He's gonna hopefully learn my name. But also you wanna refer to something he knows so that that will confirm it. So we've been telling him, name Merlin. Hi Merlin. I'm sure he knows his name is Merlin. So then I say, name Marlin. Name Marlin. And then name Leo and name George. So we've been doing that a lot today. And I swear he said George. When George left, did you say George? I thought you said George. I couldn't believe it. And George says, you did. And George says that he said Marla. It's day two. I don't even know how that's possible but Vinny can kinda do that too. Are you having fun here? And as far as stepping up, like he steps up easily. We haven't tried to get him from his cage today. He usually gets up on his own. Yeah. Every time today, like he hasn't been on his cage much which is very important for a second day socialization with a bird. So I still don't think we'd be able to like pick him up off his cage. Don't pull him out and put him on top of his cage because then he just learns to stay there and be territorial. So we still haven't tried to get him off of his cage today off the top. And I don't think that's gonna happen today but we'll try. So stepping up is not a problem but it still is from the cage. It's unbelievable. You just integrated yourself. I honestly thought that like this was gonna be a case of like him only liking me and only wanting to come to me but he just included himself more than Cody. Cody let you pet him right away. Cody loves us. We could grab and kiss Cody and pick him up but Merlin just wants to be so involved in the family right away. It's impressive. And again, that's all about being inclusive with a bird. We haven't let him go back. If he, we thought he wanted water we give him water here from a cup. If we thought he wanted food, we feed him here. That's all part of it. Vinny, what do you gotta say about that? Time for bed? Who needs to go to bed Vinny? Oh he said time for bed again. I'm telling you he's saying time for bed. What's going on? Are you tired? Who needs to go to bed? Jenna, Jenna's not here buddy. That usually means he wants the dog to go away. He sees Harry so he's calling Jenna. He thinks like come take care of the dog. Is Jenna a traitor for moving out? So we need to choose a birthday. He's like a Valentine's Day bird. Was it the day after? The 15th. The 15th. So the 15th is your? Is your birthday now? Now what are we saying about his age? He's probably like 21. Did you ask her how long she had? She had him six months. The other lady had him 20 years. So with Jersey I have to say yay even if she doesn't get it on because then she doesn't wanna play if she's not getting praise. Yay! A little bit, ate a lot, chilled out, relax. Puted, I don't think Merlin was in his cage at all once he got out of it. And then he was on top of it maybe once and he's been barking at the dogs. So obviously he lived with the dog before cause he knows about it. And then something else crazy happened guys. Oh my God. Remember my top 10 worst bites video? Well, because this is familiar. Look what happened. Not even from Merlin. So I tried to tell you guys about these little birds. So I picked Monty up and I had him on my shoulder and then I thought, oh I'll get Nellie and I'll like kind of start moving him back to get ready for bed. And then Jersey Climb got me. This is what I wasn't expecting and they both got jealous. And one bit my neck, Nellie. And then Monty bit my neck. And then I went to put my hand and you could see my hands bleeding and either of them or one of them, two spots here and here, bit my fingers. I was, remember how I said I don't scream I'm so chill when I get bit? No. I was like, oh, oh, cause it's like my neck. I've never really been bit by a neck except one time I got bit in the neck by a macaw in a bird store like 20 years ago. I kid you not. Anyway, we put the mask on it. Remember I told you guys about the mask so like seal it up so it won't have any scars. It hurts. So I had a little bit of non-camera downtime. And that's it. I'm gonna put the birds to bed and after I say goodbye to you guys here I'm gonna show you some footage of Merlin going to bed. Of course I'm gonna do all their food and water now. And yeah, I hope you're enjoying these updates with Merlin. I wanna let you know I've been able to get these videos out a little bit faster because I have my friend Chris helping me at it. 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It's time for bed. Does that look good? We made him a little soak and serve. So it's like soaked food. So we're trying to use this to teach him to go in there at night.