Parrot Mimics Ringtone to Torture His Owner
http://tinyurl.com/2fbf55

No, because they never get the chance, not that they wouldn't.  They are
WAY too expensive to poison with electronics parts swallowed.  One of
them had surgery to remove a metal bell clapper he managed to wrench out
of a parrot bell many years back.  I don't wanna go through that
again....  My vet put me to work holding the gas over his beak...while
they took the Xrays.  There it was...inside him.  The vet got it
out...AFTER I LEFT.

They are NEVER left loose in the house, unsupervised.  They'd reduce this
place to sawdust and gypsum in an hour...(c;

My big macaw (blue and gold) always greets new people with:

"OH OH.....NOW WHAT??!", as the unsuspecting new victim stares through
the bars at him.  Living with poultry is like living with 2-year olds
that NEVER grow up the rest of your life.  It's a riot!...sometimes
frustrating.

If you yell at them "Quiet, damned birds!", when they're in screaming
mode, that just means you're going to hear that echoed at you for hours,
in with the blood curdling macaw calls. He just adds it to the database
for re-encoding on demand.  My Yellow Nape Amazon can make every
electronic noise he's ever heard, especially RINGTONES, which he loves!

When my stepdaughter, a dizzy blonde for sure, lived at home, she would
be standing RIGHT NEXT to a telephone that DIDN'T ring under her hand,
but hear a "telephone ringer" from the bird room and, like Pavlov's Dog,
answer the non-ringing phone.....EVERY TIME.  I tried not to
laugh...really...but, you just can't hold it without exploding!

Larry

Better stuff is "Dog Away".  We used to sell it by the case in our petshop.  
They don't taste it, because they can't stand to go near it.  Spray it on a
bush and they'll all stop pissing on it!  As soon as they get a whif, which
you can't smell, they rush away.

http://allpetvetsupply.stores.yahoo.net/prpdfar004.html
http://www.odordestroyer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BDRY22DOG

Use them very lightly indoors or you dog won't come into the house, at all!

Larry