Post by Scratchpost on Jul 12, 2023 4:03:27 GMT -7
So we have a lot of flies in Spring and Summer, and still a few in Autumn and Winter because the water doesn't really freeze so fly lava can survive season to season (which really sucks).
I am always weary of the flies in the lounge because of the moisture in Aka's chop and breakfast. I remove the chop at around midday because of this but sometimes the flies still come. From the beginning, I told Aka to shoo the flies away. I told him to say "Be gone, vermin" so I'll hear when there are flies in the area so I can check is bowls afterwards.
Well, he understands the concept because when he see's a fly now, or a group of flies, he climbs to the top of his cage and gets excited, watching them with his eyes and starts' screaming at them.
This is where I screwed up lol. He doesn't/can't say "Be gone, vermin" yet so the only way he can communicate this to me is by screaming at them to go away. I can't say "Don't scream" because he (normally) only screams when he see's them so that would be like me telling him to not do the thing I asked him to do, so I/we have to live with a parrot who screams at flies until he learns to say "Be gone, vermin." Yay.
