Beaking bad! Foul-mouthed pub parrot banned from watching action films after ‘shouting the F-word’ at punters

• A foul-mouthed parrot, from Sheffield, has been banned from watching TV
• His owner, Andy Ashby, explains how the parrot keeps dropping the F-bomb
• READ MORE: Pet parrot stops would-be intruders from breaking into a home 

A foul-mouthed parrot has been banned from watching TV because he can’t stop dropping the F-bomb after picking up bad language from action films.

Louis the African Grey parrot often goes on ‘rants’ and ‘starts shouting the F-word’ around customers in the pub he lives in.

Owner Andy Ashby, 50, says the five-and-a-half year old parrot’s vocabulary is now so explicit that he is trying to new ways to stop his bad language. 

Andy, who owns the Nailmakers Arms in Sheffield, has tried to get the bird to socialise with his punters rather than letting him watch the television. 

He has even put a note on Louis’ cage in the pub to warn his customers not only of the swearing, but that he may bite them if they get too close. 

Foul-mouthed African Grey parrot Louis (pictured) has been banned from watching TV after he keeps dropping the F-bomb

Andy said: ‘He will squeal and they say hello and come out with a couple of words. 

‘But then he might just come out with the F-word just off spec. Then when he goes on a rant, he just starts shouting the F-word all the time so it just causes me trouble.’

Andy explained how he is left red in the face when customers come in and Louis starts swearing.

He has tried to tell Louis off but explained ‘the more you tell him, the worse he gets’ and he just ‘comes out with whatever he wants.’

He added: ‘It’s quite funny actually but it is one of them things where you think that it’s quite embarrassing.

Owner Andy Ashby, 50, (pictured) says the five-and-a-half year old parrot is now that bad that he is trying to new ways to stop his bad language

Andy adopted Louis from a home where he lived with a family who had a baby, so he used to copy the noises that the baby’s toys would make

‘The more you tell him, the worse he gets. He just comes out with whatever he wants to come out with.

‘So he’ll say oi, or he’ll chirp. He also makes camera noises, what sound like taking a picture on a mobile phone.

‘Then when he goes on a sweary rant, he really goes off on one.’

Andy adopted Louis from a home where he lived with a family who had a baby, so he used to copy the noises that the baby’s toys would make.

But when Andy got him, he let him watch a lot of action films, until the bird eventually started picking up swear words from the characters in the movies.

Andy said: ‘He didn’t really used to say any words, he just used to make noises because he lived in a house with people who had a baby so he used to copy the toys’ noises.

The pub landlord has now had to put a sign up warning people about his swearing but he hopes Louis’s language will improve now he’s not watching TV

Andy, who owns the Nailmakers Arms in Sheffield, has tried to get the bird to socialise with his punters rather than letting him watch the television

‘I had him upstairs and with the TV being on, he’s picked up some of the films.

‘In some of the films, there’s some language in them so he’s picked up some of the character’s words such as the F-word.’

The pub landlord has now had to put a sign up warning people about his swearing but he hopes Louis’s language will improve now he’s not watching TV.

Andy said: ‘He’s not watching TV now, he’s watching customers so he should pick more stuff up.

‘It will fade out. He will pick up new words now he’s downstairs. He will pick up different, less rude, words.’

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