Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕

i am a twelve year old grey parrot. i say things. (Tweets from an Actual Parrot, transcribed by Actual Humans.)

[Dez Prince @DezP_13]

Bosley's reached a new record today--100 days since his last bite! So proud of this guy! 💯❤️

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Hello friends! While we have never been a tremendously active account here, we are sorry to see this platform go up in flames. In case you want to follow us elsewhere, you can find us on Tumblr at https://t.co/bLo8Dbnsbf, where one of our humans posts photos and artwork!

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley: HEY MEL

Humans: Hey Ripley

Ripley: wanna come out

Humans: Not right now ... we're cooking ...

Ripley: ripley wanna go in kitchen :(

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley: HEY MEL

Human: Hey Ripley, what's up?

Ripley: ......... hiiii~

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley: i think bird

Human: Yeah, okay. I think bird.

Ripley: yeah me too!

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

POV: you are a couch cushion and I am considering ripping a huge hole in you for fun

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Human: I'm sweeping up all your feathers buddy
Ripley: that's my shirt
Human: Yes, it was your shirt and they all fell on the ground

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Human: (sweeping up around Ripley's cage)
Ripley: oohh happy bird
Human: Oh yes, happy bird. You like watching me sweep huh buddy?
Ripley: boooo
Human: Why are you booing me?
Ripley: i like it

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Human: (sweeping up around Ripley's cage)
Ripley: oohh happy bird
Human: Oh yes, happy bird. You like watching me sweep huh buddy?
Ripley: boooo
Human: Why are you booing me?
Ripley: i like it

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

I dunno that I would say he's doing *brilliantly,* but he's done worse

[Elizabeth Venables @evenables1006]

@RipleyParrot @JortsTheCat you don't actually bite anyone do you but look how brilliantly Ripley is doing (indoors).

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Human: [takes a package of goat cheese out of my lunchbox which sat in the car too long and is now slightly warm and a little melted]

Human: aw dang I think this got too hot in the car

Ripley: [leans forward and blows on it like it's piping hot]

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Human: It's hard to clean your cage when you're such an enormous pest.

Ripley, reaching for Human's glasses: that's what i am.

Human: It is. It is what you are.

Ripley: it's hi mel. u clean.

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

@RomeoTheMac1 @misbehavian Ripley almost gave one of his humans stitches once. On the face, too! But the doctor just glued it back up instead.😱

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

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[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

i'm a happy bird. you have rights?

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley: u happy bird?
Human: Yeah! Ripley happy bird?
Ripley: yea.

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley's referred to rice as "white" for a couple years now but lately he's been trying to combine the words "white" and "rice" and keeps asking us if he can have "right." This is a well-documented behavior in parrots called "lexical elision" but also ... he's demanding rights 😂

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley: i love a poop!
Human: Excuse me? You love a what?
Ripley: i love happy bird.
Human: You love happy bird.
Ripley: very happy bird.

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

(the dinosaur accepts your offering of kale)

[Ripley Parrot 🏳️‍🌈 💕 @RipleyParrot]

Ripley: take a picture
Human: Okay