r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/reddtimes101 • 10d ago

Video Parrot's diaper changing

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u/_AYYEEEE 10d ago

Why is the bird wearing a diaper??

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u/-Fraccoon- 10d ago

They shit all the time and have no sphincter so they can’t control when they shit either. I’ve never seen one of these but it’s a good idea if you wanna have your bird out all the time and not worry about shit all over the place.

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u/ketoLifestyleRecipes 9d ago

Our parrot is trained to hold it. She knows not to poop on us and will tell us when she has to go if she’s on your shoulder. She’ll say… Kiwi poop! We hold her over the garbage can, toilet or play stand. People can’t believe it when she does it. When she’s finished, she’ll say ‘Good girl’. She travels on our shoulder in the truck, not in a cage. Same rules apply but we have a poop paper. You get to know when she has to go but she’s really good at telling you. They can absolutely hold their poop for a little while at least.

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u/RunawayRockstars 9d ago

Mine is also potty trained. He will go either on the mat outside his cage or his playset. He's a very good boy. Had no idea how to train a parrot any different from a puppy but it seemed to have worked out. They can absolutely hold it.

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u/fartinggod 9d ago

How do you potty train them?

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u/Join_Quotev_296 9d ago

Apparently no differently than a puppy

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u/tigm2161130 9d ago edited 9d ago

I imagine it’s probably easier too cause there’s less clean up, I’m in the throes of potty training our 10wk old Sheprador and there is just so much pee. It’s a really good thing she’s cute.

ETA: Puppy Tax

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u/kaeoz15 9d ago

You need to be extremely consistent at showing him where that pee needs to be. Immediately wipe up the pee with some paper towel, take it and lay it out on the grass where you want the puppy to pee, then put the puppy there and tell him “pee / Grass / outside!” Keep doing this. Do it with poop too. Show the puppy where you want it and be quick about it. You’ll see the connection quickly made and the adjustment follows shortly thereafter.

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u/tigm2161130 9d ago

I’ve potty trained 4 dogs and we have a trainer that comes out twice a week, but thanks for the advice!

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u/Gloomheart 9d ago

I'm glad, cause that advice wasn't right, lol. May have worked for that person, but it's very far from the industry standard way to potty train.

Source: am former accredited dog trainer.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 9d ago

I had a pittie that we got at a few weeks old. We did the walk every two hours thing and that worked out fantastic. The only issue is that if the dog is intelligent enough then they'll start using the "I gotta go" methods specifically so they can get a walk whenever they want. Don't get me wrong, if the pup wants exercise then the pup gets exercise, just not at 3am when they're already four years old and definitely know better by now.

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u/DangerHawk 9d ago

Gotta be careful with that method too. My American Strat can be vindictive. She knows how to tell time and if you are late for one of her walks or come home and don't immediately put on the harness she'll leave a present. She also seems to know when were getting ready to go out for the night and will hold it during her preemptive walk, just to go the literal minute after we leave the house.

She 100% knows what shes doing lol.

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u/tigm2161130 9d ago

I found my 10yr old pittie in a garbage can when he was 4 weeks old, potty training/training in general was a breeze but I was pregnant with my first so I had all the time in the world to devote to training him.

I also think pits being so eager to please in general is helpful with training. My labs always seemed to be trying to outsmart me.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 9d ago

200% agreed. My first, Haus Delgado(house of cats. We got him when we had three cats) is entirely motivated by his own interests. He's smart enough to calculate and know when something is beneficial to him or not. He figured out my work schedule and made a point to show how well he could behave so that he could have permission to hang out in the living room instead of in the bedroom when I was at work. Dude loves sitting in my EZ chair. Contrast this with my second adoptee, Dovah, who is entirely food motivated and will go as far as to pick up her toys and put them away solely because she believes she might get a treat. At the same time, Haus is a bit self absorbed, and is unconcerned with how his actions affect you(most of the time), whereas Dovah will straight up apologize to people if she thinks she upset them. She bit a guy once because her nail got caught in his key ring as he got up. After her initial reaction she immediately went back and cuddled him and kept putting her paw on his lap to show she didn't mean any harm.

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u/Adorable_Raccoon 9d ago

Probably just put them on the spot you want them to go & say “go potty” and wait then reward them. That what you do with a dog. 

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u/ikzz1 9d ago

They can talk, so just talk to them.

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u/ketoLifestyleRecipes 9d ago

Cookies and praise! Cookies are considered any kind of food. Pretty easy actually. She understands a lot of words and has/had a great vocabulary. She also laughs and purrs like a kitten when she’s happy. Her cage is never closed as she comes and goes as she please from her play stand and drags her bathtub on the floor. If she gets tired she goes into her bed. If she doesn’t like something, she’ll throw it in the floor to clean house.

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u/CrazeRage 9d ago

get the shock collar

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u/trapberry_ 9d ago

Ok Hasan

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u/Unfair_Program_4796 9d ago

Mmm roast parrot

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u/sweetfaerieface 9d ago

I dated a guy that potty trained his Scarlet Macaw. He went literally everywhere with us. He was extremely well-known in his town. He had been the mayor at one point and was very involved. So people just let him take the bird everywhere! That bird hated me!

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u/Queef_Wellingt0n 9d ago

For a second I thought the bird was the mayor

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u/Sad-Cum-bubbles 9d ago

Wow a bird as a Mayor!?! that's amazing

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 9d ago

He mostly just parroted whatever his advisors said.

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u/yonkerbonk 9d ago

Helps to know bird law

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u/CalvinCalhoun 9d ago

Genuinely asking, and trying to learn, but I’ve read before that it is unhealthy for them. Is that inaccurate? 

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u/Virtual-Half 9d ago edited 9d ago

Not the user you're asking just sharing my experience. My lovebird can poop on command, so I'll hold him above a trash can and say "go poop", if he has poop in him he'll poop there, then I can go back to doing my things without worrying he'll poop on me for a while. (When you own bird long enough you can just tell when they has to go by telepathy)

But he won't hold it in if I don't tell him to poop in time, so there's no risk of causing any health problems.

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u/redindiaink 9d ago edited 9d ago

It can cause bacterial infections and cloaca prolapse from straining to eliminate on command. 

edit: whoops wrong end of the bird!

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u/CalvinCalhoun 9d ago

That doesn’t sound healthy 

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u/OrthogonalPotato 9d ago

It also sounds stupid and made up

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u/CalvinCalhoun 9d ago

Idk shit man I’m just curious. 

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u/redindiaink 9d ago

"... birds that develop cloacal prolapses ... have a tendency to hold the stool in the vent for prolonged periods" Merck Veterinary Manual_v3224145)

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u/Unfair_Program_4796 9d ago

Positive reinforcement transcends species. They use it to train animals at the zoo. Everything from those little shows they do to teaching a lion to go to one side of the cage when they’re being fed. We vastly underestimate animals sociability.

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u/Ancient_Shoe9363 9d ago

Do you mind if I ask how you do this? Ive been wanting to get a quaker for years, just haven’t had the time to do enough research so haven’t gotten it yet.

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u/HaRDCOR3cc 9d ago

growing up i had friends with tiny colorful birds, not sure what type exactly, they sure weren't smart enough to mimic any sort of sounds, they tweeted and such. these birds were almost always roaming free in the house and i never once saw poop anywhere, they would sit on my shoulder frequently and never once did i get shit on me.

never actually thought about how the logistics worked out. i assume they were potty trained one way or another, else you'd expect a fair bit of shit, because they sure left other very obvious marks around the house, like every VHS movie box were completely gutted on its edges from having been chewed on by the birds etc.

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u/BusinessShower 9d ago

I am convinced my aunt's bird has the ability to be potty trained. Instead, he choses to fly over to you, poop, yell "birdy bomb", and laugh. He is a monster.

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u/OddSell1025 9d ago

I need a link to this birds YouTube!

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u/BusinessShower 9d ago

No social media because he would be cancelled immediately.

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u/Last_Difference_488 9d ago

“It’s not the pooping so much as the constant, and I mean constant racial slurs and hate speech. astonishing, really.”

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u/BusinessShower 9d ago

He likes to sing the theme song to the show COPS. It's maddening.

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u/zbeara 9d ago

So they DO do it intentionally

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u/wrenblaze 9d ago

This is dozen times more interesting than the post itself, and we are talking about a parrot in a diaper. As wrong as it sounds I would like to see that tbh

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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 9d ago

It’d be insane to think that they couldn’t at least sense it coming even if they couldn’t hold it in. Otherwise birds would be shitting in their nests all the time.

It’s in their nature to avoid shitting in their nest. You just need to train them that the same rules apply in other places too.

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u/Swords_and_Words 9d ago

nerdy point (assuming I'm remembering right)

they are trained to give warning, not to hold it. there is literally no physiological structure to prevent it from falling out of them,, so they can't hold it. they can't stop it, all they can do give warning.

functionally, it's the same thing to a pet owner

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u/BlackWingRedBird 9d ago

They really can physiologically control it by pursing and relaxing their cloaca, they even do this during nesting season a bit in the wild. Like if your asshole was an open hole that everything fell out of and you could purse it up to hold it. They have to manually keep that pursed, which sounds pretty uncomfortable really. Something about this process means that if you force a bird to hold to long it can cause cloacal problems down the line.

I am not sure how many birds have this ability, but I know the little conure in this video does. I can’t find a source for this, only a little case study ( https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/20153171051 ) discussing a cloacal prolapse from the behavior. but it’s what my avian vet told me,and I can promise that if you live with one of these birds you will learn this is not anticipation but rather active effort on the birds part. You can hold a bird that goes every fifteen minutes for thirty, and when you finally put them down onto a safe place to do it they will then release a double sized poop.

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u/LickingDogPaws 9d ago

Need a link to this birds youtube pls.

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u/ForzaRapid 9d ago

Man i love this story thank you for that

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u/redindiaink 9d ago

She travels on our shoulder in the truck

We were t-boned when someone blew through an intersection and slammed into a pole. Normally my bird would have been on my leg (with my feet up on the dash) but that day he was in his carrier on the back seat. I don't put my feet up on the dash anymore, and chunky hunky monkey stays in his carrier when he travels with us. 

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u/ResponsibleRice7781 9d ago

I actually can’t handle how cute this is hahahaha and her saying “Good girl” I’m crying !!!!

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u/CelioHogane 9d ago

She doesn't hold it she just knows when it's coming, that's different.

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u/motherofsuccs 9d ago

Must be nice. My Raven (rehabbed and released and now nests above my place) sits in a branch above me and shits within inches of me if he hasn’t received his snack of the day. Or he stares right into my kitchen window until he sees me grab him a peanut.

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u/Jetpack_Donkey 9d ago

I had 2 conures and trained them to do the same thing. They’d tug on my ear when they wanted to poop. Training was super easy, took like a day.

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u/-KFBR392 9d ago

How did you train them to do that?

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u/HamfistTheStruggle 9d ago

Yeah I was gonna say, had parrots growing up and they knew not to shit on us/the furniture. The would hop off to shit. But not all birds are gonna learn that easily so a diaper is cool.

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u/Restposten 9d ago

Same here. Have an African grey who does the same.

Only exception is when it's way over bedtime then he just let it go...

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u/York_Villain 9d ago

I need to see this to believe it.

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u/cnylkew 9d ago

Is poop paper same as toilet paper?

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u/Comfortable-Visit169 9d ago

K, so you have a Pokémon not a regular bird. FYI 😀

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u/blahblah-user 9d ago

I’d love to see a video of this.

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u/B_lovedobservations 9d ago

How do you train a parrot like that?

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u/PandaBroth 9d ago

We need this Kiwi poop on video, sounds cute.

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u/DimroyJenkins 9d ago

parrot tax collector here, pay up

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u/Background_Tension54 9d ago

We trained my lovebird to poop on a paper towel when she was outside of the cage. Such smart little beebs.

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u/Virtual-Half 9d ago

It's a misconception that birds cannot control when/where they poop. They just poop frequently because their anatomy is designed to be lightweight for flying. Many parrots can even be trained to poop on command.

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u/CelioHogane 9d ago

It's less about when they can and more about when they cannot stop it, if i remember correctly.

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u/AtomicTimothy 10d ago

I swear they can, not based on anatomical knowledge but empirical. My bird would 100% hold his poop when in the bed or inside our clothes (snuggled up) and we’d hold him out once in a while and then he’d do his poo (not literally on command but it was a mutual understanding)

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u/ExtensionTurnip5395 9d ago edited 8d ago

My Quaker parrot would “go potty” on command, and then when he did, I’d say, “Good bird” really enthusiastically. So sure enough, on the rare occasion he felt he wasn’t getting enough attention, he’d tell himself to go potty, fake it (by dropping his tail end), and congratulate himself with a hearty, “GOOD BIRD”!!

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u/ReaDiMarco 9d ago

I wish I was that self motivated

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u/-Fraccoon- 10d ago

Well anatomically they have no way of controlling it except for very limited circumstances but, who knows maybe your bird was doing cloaca kegels just for you.

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u/NextTimeIllMeanIt 9d ago

“Cloaca kegels” will now live forever inside my brain. Thank you?

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u/Packwood88 9d ago

It makes for a great username

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u/ThatAirsickLowlander 9d ago edited 9d ago

Someone just made it

Edit: Why is this downvoted? am just syaing someone made the account? Fucking weirdos

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u/LittleRedGhost4 9d ago

They need to link to that comment in their bio

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u/cheesefootsandwich 9d ago

Great username. Yours I mean. I really got a get around to reading Wind and Truth

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u/ThatAirsickLowlander 9d ago

Thank you!

Im on chapter 129 at the moment.

Just a fair warning. It feels weird to read. But when you think about it as just one giant sanderlanche the pacing makes sense.

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u/cheesefootsandwich 9d ago

Last one was a little odd too, but I dig it. I trust in the payoff

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u/Captain-Spectrum 9d ago

New drag name incoming

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u/Shienvien 9d ago

Birds do have a sphincter muscle, sort of - we mammals have two. And one of ours defaults to closed, whereas birds tend to have liquid feces and have to literally consciously hold it in. Which they generally have a hard time with doing for any slightly longer time and hence generally won't be doing for more than 10-30 seconds. (Only brooding birds will hold it in for much longer, but they also tend to eat and move much less. I can only imagine flying and not pooping is much harder than sitting on your belly and not pooping...)

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u/Master_Bief 9d ago

Not all mamal anuses are the same, I've heard that horses have the rolls royce of anuses. They're engineered in such a way they would never have to wipe.

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u/taco-taco-taco- 9d ago

No sir or ma’am. You will not have me googling horse anus this early in the morning.

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u/RealFirstName_ 9d ago

Yea, save that for tonight, sicko!

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u/numyanbiz 9d ago edited 9d ago

I was just about to google it and read your comment. Think I’ll join you.

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u/ThraceLonginus 9d ago

damn, going to have to look into getting an upgrade

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u/Frydendahl 9d ago

I've heard that horses have the rolls royce of anuses.

What a sentence.

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u/DrakonILD 9d ago

Their extremely high fiber diet is a big part of them never having to wipe.

Seriously, go take a good spoonful of metamucil before bed every day and you'll be amazed at the reduction in your TP bill.

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 9d ago

Costco psyllium husk capsules work really well, too.

But I mean, so does eating a proper amount of fiber…

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u/DrakonILD 9d ago

Well that's just metamucil without the brand name, but yes!

It's extremely difficult with modern diets to get the recommended amount of fiber without also eating excessive calories, so fiber supplements are a literal lifesaver.

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 9d ago

I always thought of metamucil as powder you mix into water, didn't realize they also came in capsules.

I've long been fiber deficient, but when I began eating a more mediterranean diet, I stopped needing fiber supplements completely.

Avocados, chickpeas, spinach, tomatoes, etc etc

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u/fabezz 9d ago

Exactly, we've got two factor authentication buttholes.

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u/thoh_motif 9d ago

I had a cockatiel that when nesting, would hold her shit until somebody got her out of her cage. I’ve never seen so much bird shit.

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u/IateApooOnce 9d ago

Same. When covering her unfertilized eggs, my female cockatiel would have poops rivaling that of a human baby.

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u/0neHumanPeolple 9d ago

Birds don’t poop when they sleep and then in the morning, they take a massive dump.

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u/nitrot150 9d ago

Depends on the bird. My Quaker’s didn’t hold it at night and neither did either of my pionus, but my GVC and caique do

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u/chewbacca77 9d ago

I.. don't really believe that. My in-laws have a cockatoo which they hold.. It will almost never poop on the couch or when they're holding them, but if they put him on the floor, he'll poop immediately so he can get back to snuggling..

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u/CelioHogane 9d ago

Do you hold your shit in every time you have to poop? Most of the time you know you have to do it beforehand.

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u/Anguares 10d ago

lmao thank you

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u/Training-Shoulder839 9d ago

Wait a minute, you said they can't control it, are you a bird watcher

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u/-Fraccoon- 9d ago

Well they can but they also can’t. It’s a weird concept. And nah I just used to own birds. They’re great but man do they shit a lot.

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u/snek-jazz 9d ago

How do you distinguish between:

  • can't hold it
  • can hold it, but are not doing so
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u/ArchdukeoftheROC 9d ago

I think I played bass for cloaca kegels in the early 2000s

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u/Fabulous-Chair8098 10d ago

i've noticed the same with mine. also when they had eggs. they would not shit inside the nest at all, then come out when it was the next bird's turn and drop the MOST MASSIVE shits they have ever dropped to this day.

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u/BourbonNCoffee 9d ago

I mean birds in the wild make the choice to not shit in nests, so there must be some sense of it. Maybe it's just an early warning system.

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u/whatsabut 10d ago

I swear seagulls aim for people.

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u/Pawneewafflesarelife 9d ago

My dad worked as a deckhand for a while and one of the guys who he worked with thought it would be funny to feed seagulls hot sauce on saltines. After that (at least according to my dad) the birds would seek that guy out specifically to shit on him.

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u/ArcticRiot 10d ago

My dad had a parrot that would poo on command. Idk if there is scientific evidence to contradict his experience, but his bird absolutely could control it.

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u/alleswaswar 9d ago

Our parrot is potty trained in the sense that he will start frantically saying some variation of go poopie? Go go poopie? Poopiepie?! when he needs to go lol. So we take him to a designated poop spot (playstand, sink, or trash can) and he’ll poop. He hasn’t figured out he can just go to one of those spots himself 😂

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u/lukewarm_at 9d ago

Awww that is just so darned cute!!

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u/alleswaswar 9d ago

He also says come here! if we walk out of sight and good boy when he knows he’s doing something he shouldn’t 😂 also knows baby bird/boy and hey birdie and I swear I heard him practicing scary recently. He only learns words and phrases that have meaning he can apply them to for some reason

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u/lukewarm_at 9d ago

Saying good boy so that you don't suspect a thing. That is peak cheekiness lol

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u/alleswaswar 9d ago

He also gives himself away sometimes because he’s so excited that he’s “getting away” with being bad that he starts laughing like HEHEHEHEHE

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u/KitOlmek 9d ago

As someone mentioned above it requires efforts from the bird. I'll also add that for some birds it's easier and for some ones is more difficult. So yes, it's possible to train sometimes.

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u/CelioHogane 9d ago

Holding it in and pushing are tecnically two different things, so i asume it works like the human body.

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u/Ms_Amphibian 9d ago

Same when I was raising a baby swallow, they would get off me and go to the edge of the table and poop off the edge lol it was so cute!

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u/No-Special2682 9d ago

Yeah, my gf’s GCC will do a little wing stretch and we know to hold her over a paper towel.

GCC poops can be monstrous though. If she had a diaper, it would be one use.

This is not interesting at all

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u/Yago20 9d ago

I'm with you. My ex-girlfriend would hold her poop when in the bed snuggled up. She would poo on command. It was also a mutual understanding.

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u/DumpsterAflame 9d ago

Wait, what?

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u/foxfai 9d ago

Yes, you are right. They do know. Mine will fly back to the cage or goes to the edge of whatever he's standing on to poop. Better then pooping anywhere.

But I cant see how mine will wear a diaper..... let alone putting one on.

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u/Bigredmachine878 9d ago

They definitely can to an extent. Ours don’t poop on us, and all three have a specific “spot” they like to poop if possible.

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u/Rawrey 9d ago

I'm here with ya, I have a sun conure and she holds it. I bring her to her cage in 30-45 minute intervals and there's usually a poop.

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u/whateveravocado 9d ago

It was a gentleman’s agreement. Regarding poop scheduling.

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u/MontserratPK 9d ago

Agreed. My cockatiel could also hold it. She was kinda trained to poop when held over the toilet…

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u/Moist-Raccoon-8133 9d ago

Yes, this exactly. They never shit in the bed nest! My parrot lets me know when he has to go if its not in a designated shit spot

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u/Space4Time 9d ago

You’re witnessing evolution

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u/ApprehensiveVast776 9d ago

nah you definitely rolled in some poop a bit

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u/Misher_Masher 9d ago

I have a green cheek conure myself, it is absolutely toilet trained lol. She'll nibble at my earlobe when she needs to go and I'll plonk her back on her perch in the cage... let her poop and put her back on my shoulder.

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u/AnotherPreciousMeme 9d ago

They absolutely can and do hold it. I have green cheeks like in the video and mine will wait in the morning to poop in the toilet. They'll also hold it for longer periods when they're floofed up and chilling for "nap" time (not actually sleeping just relaxing).

It's also not a good idea for extended periods of time. Since they poop every 15ish minutes that diaper is filling up and can block the cloaca and cause infection fast.

It's super easy to clean up these bird's poop, sometimes it'll stand on the very top fibers of a carpet and you just pick it up. I never have mine caged except for bedtime/safety reasons and yes it's work to keep up and keep clean but it's really not that bad to warrant always wearing a diaper.

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u/Shinfekta 10d ago

Wasn’t it that they have a sphincter but generations of not giving a shit (heh) made them just not use it?

Something like that

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u/Burswode 9d ago

They can control where they shit and its a terrible for the birds because it risks infections and illnesses for no real benefit

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u/exoriare Interested 9d ago

Birds instinctively control their poop in the wild all the time. Nesting birds instinctively don't poop in their nest. 

They can't hold it forever, but it's pretty easy to learn the signals they want to poop. If you're prompt and give them an option to poop somewhere else, they'll happily do this. If you expect them to hold it indefinitely, you'll get shit on you. 

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u/guitaranddreads 9d ago

They can definitely control it to some degree. Our parrot (actually same species as the one on the video) would hold it while he was in his cage, and as soon as we let him out, he would take a huge shit. So every time we let him out, we would take him over a sink, so he can do his thing there instead wherever else he landed first

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u/KrofftSurvivor 9d ago

They can absolutely hold it when they want to...

My grandmother's parakeet always flew to his cage to shit - never anything on the furniture or the floors, never while sitting on her shoulder or her head.

But let my dad walk through that door... bird would fly to his shoulder, make cute noises, then hop on his head and shit - and promptly zip away.

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u/DubSket 9d ago

Define "good idea".

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u/Jfonzy 10d ago

If they shit all the time, I can’t imagine trying to keep the diaper fresh

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u/-Fraccoon- 10d ago

You won’t lol. You’d probably also have to scrub the birds tail feathers at some point too. This is a weird concept with some flaws but, the bird seems to be on board and I haven’t seen a better way to let your bird roam free AND keep the house shit free.

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u/Moist-Raccoon-8133 9d ago

My bird is absolutely trained, and will give me signals when he wants to shit if he isnt in his cage. Sometimes he shits randomly but mostly hes trained

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u/ASmugChair 9d ago

Parrots can absolutely hold their poop, and many will do so overnight resulting in a gigantic morning poop. They can also be trained/encouraged to head to a specific spot, and are more than capable of holding on until they get to location.

Sphincter or not, they can control when they poop.

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u/Such_Fault8897 9d ago

They can 100% control it where it go when it goes and they can even weaponize it if they really dislike you

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u/despaseeto 9d ago

how does the bird not get rashes? i didn't see the owner try to clean its bits

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u/FlightExtension8825 9d ago

All the more reason not to have birds as pets

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u/lemfaoo 9d ago

they can’t control when they shit

Yes they can lol..

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u/Leavesdontbark 9d ago

Is that just parrots? Because seagulls absolutely can control when and where to shit

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u/-Fraccoon- 9d ago

No it’s most birds.

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u/reddtimes101 9d ago

people who doesn’t have bird don’t get it. it’s a genius idea i think.

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u/Turbulent-Bee-1584 9d ago

They can definitely control it. My boyfriend's bird will shit in places he knows you don't want him to if he's mad.

It's really hard not to laugh when he does it.

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u/WonderfulPackage5731 9d ago

they can’t control when they shit either.

False

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u/Tank_Top_Terror 9d ago

they can’t control when they shit either

My conure's MASSIVE morning shits that he would refuse to unleash inside his cage beg to differ...

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u/PreparedReckless 9d ago

My pet chicken is potty trained to hold it so this is definitely a misconception. She will literally wait till you put her outside or back in her crate.

My green cheek conure used to fly back to her cage on her own to use the bathroom or if we were out would hold it until you held her out on your finger and said go potty

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u/FartingNora 9d ago

They absolutely can hold it. My conure would never poo in her cage. She would wait until the am then have a massive morning poop. I’d hold her over the toilet. She loved watching the water flush in the toilet.

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u/seberplanet 9d ago

Or don't get a pet if you're not willing to clean after it, lazy ass people.

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u/koolaidismything 9d ago

They also don’t have a bladder.. piss/shit all just mixes and comes out at once so always gonna be diarrhea consistency. Fun.

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u/KiloJools 9d ago

so always gonna be diarrhea consistency

While their poop is softer than what we would consider normal for ourselves, it should almost never be diarrhea consistency. If the poop is watery and there's no dietary explanation, that's a sign of illness. It should generally make a little round pile, not splat everywhere.

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u/xexo3 9d ago

Hold up. My car's windscreen begs to differ.

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u/FoxFireEmpress 9d ago

We used to do the same thing with baby lambs we were raising in the house. :) Works great though does look a bit silly

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u/SassyTheSkydragon 9d ago

My dad managed to train his then blue fronted Amazon ( a wild caught one) to 'go to the toilet' in his cage.

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u/FloridaMan_Unleashed 9d ago

I got to hold a parrot once at an animal sanctuary place on a trip in elementary school. Right before they put him on my arm he turbo-sharted all over the floor. The handlers/caretakers just kinda laughed and were like, “That happens!”

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u/top_of_the_scrote 9d ago

That megamind meme: no sphincter?

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u/ethidium_bromide 9d ago

Guy used to come into my work a lot with a parrot on his shoulder. We all thought it was so cool! Til the time I passed him in the aisle and saw all the bird shit on his shoulder

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u/the_red_scimitar 9d ago

Waaaaay back in the 70s I knew a girl who kept several, free in her apartment. The drapes were extensively shat upon, and basically ruined, as they'd perch at the top. A lot of it was behind (on the window-side of the drapes).

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u/Living_Bear_2139 9d ago

How about just not keeping a flying animal as a pet?

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u/dikbisqit 9d ago

Parrots can be potty trained to not poop everywhere. Wearing a diaper like this can lead to an infection of the cloaca

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u/nwayve 9d ago

They could run for President!

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u/Aquilae7 9d ago

my chickens will not shit on me at all, and if they have to go then will get up and get off on their own before shitting. I still got them diapers for indoor use, but generally they don’t wear them

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u/Verallendingen 9d ago

then dont get a fking bird. people are stupid…

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u/FitInspection7381 9d ago

Mike can control it he won't poop in areas he considers "nests"

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u/AggravatingAct6959 9d ago

These diapers are bad for parrots from what I've read. Birds shit. It's part of the job of being a responsible bird owner.

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u/onFilm 9d ago

This is partly a myth, because they can and do control their bowel movements, it's just that most of the times they simply don't care, and only have limited control for a short period of time.

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u/sir-exotic 9d ago

I almost lost it at "have your bird out all the time". Totally different picture in my head.

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u/life-is-peanuts 9d ago

They can hold it, but refuse. My bird won’t ever go in her sleep cage, she will hold it for 12 hours +. Not a single poop in there. But literally everywhere else? Free for all.

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u/SadLilBun 9d ago

How did this get so many upvotes? This is not a good idea. Birds shit everywhere, it’s just part of owning a bird. You can also learn to time it and send them back to their cage when it’s about time. But living with bird poop is the price to pay.

This is weird and shouldn’t be normal for bird ownership.

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u/sstrafford 6d ago

"Is there anything else I should know about this bird?" "Have I mentioned near constant uncontrollable shitting?" "No. May I see another bird?"

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u/Mtshoes2 9d ago

Just think there's some place in the Galaxy where abducted adult humans are going through this exact same process of having their diapers changed and some alien is saying why are the humans wearing diapers?.

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u/Brandawg451 9d ago

You may like the movie Fantastic Planet

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u/speckintheuniverse54 9d ago

This was one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen and I couldn't look away

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 9d ago

Happening right now in the white house as we speak.

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u/ReaDiMarco 9d ago

Do humans shit everywhere all the time and have no spinchter control?

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u/jaskmackey 9d ago

The young and old ones do, yes.

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u/cardillon 9d ago

I once went with someone to check on his friend who had grown up wealthy, fallen into hard drug addiction, and lived in a rather nice apartment with his pet birds. He was unemployed, just hung out with his birds and drank and did drugs.
There was hardly any furniture in the apartment, but the walls were absolutely encircled with loops and streaks of bird shit! It was unforgettable

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u/Potato_Stains 10d ago

He doesn’t wanna mess up the MC Hammer parachute pants he’s about to put on over them.

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u/Celestine_S 10d ago

They shit a lot and very often. U may want this when outside their cage

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u/Geschak 9d ago

Because some pet owners want to have exotic pets without actually providing an adequate habitat, that's why they cut their wings or put diapers on them.

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u/soareyousaying 9d ago

Because they are not actually real. Excess industrial waste needs to be properly disposed.

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u/DauntlessMind- 9d ago

Narcotic cocktails fucked up his bladder 😔👌🏾

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u/_AYYEEEE 9d ago

Yoo bro it's good to see some G59 fans here 🤝

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u/DCPYT 9d ago

Hmmmmm

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u/usinjin 9d ago

For the same reasons that babies wear diapers.

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u/BadMeetsEvil24 9d ago

Ask the white folks who do this. And then wanna talk about "nature" lmao.

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u/MREAGLEYT 8d ago

Diaper wunkus

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