"Good girl!"

[asterroc]

Kappa's trying to learn to say "good girl!" She doesn't really have consonants or vowels yet, just a bit of a growl in the right rhythm, but it's definitely the right rhythm and she does it in unison with me whenever I tell her she's a good girl, like after giving me a kiss, or stepping up, or going home. It's just so mumbly still, I hope someday she starts adding consonants, but I guess those are hard ones for her to do.

This morning after giving her skritches I put her back on the cage ("go home") and I forgot to say "good girl" after, so she mumbled it for me. ^_^

Comments

[tacotortoise.livejournal.com]

If Kappa recognizes that "good girl" is said when she does something right, and she eventually gets the pronunciation of "good girl" right, will she throw herself into an infinite loop of self-praise?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome! I don't actually say "good girl" to her saying "good girl" though, so I don't *think* it will happen. I have however, heard of other birds using their praise phrase to instead beg for treats. And I'm pretty sure I've heard of other birds praising themselves when they do things right.

[meig.livejournal.com]

Probably. Gremlin (my Quaker), says "no bite!" over and over and over and over. He also does the same with "good job!". It's hysterical.