Potty-mouth parrot needs home, but it will be like ‘adopting Samuel L. Jackson’
Sure, sometimes bird owners — if they’re feeling feisty enough — will teach their vocal birds a curse word or two to get a laugh at parties. But this parrot in Massachusetts? It sounds like he was raised by Quentin Tarantino in the middle of Los Angeles holiday traffic.
And the sailor-mouthed bird is up for adoption.
Well, sort of.
“Hendrix is up for adoption! And definitely not for the faint of heart,” the Forever Paws Animal Shelter in Fall River said of the parrot in a June 11 Facebook post.
“Hendrix came to us as an owner surrender. We don’t know much but we do know that they had him for about 20 years. When he came to us, he was being fed a diet of human cereal, white bread, sunflower seeds, and animal crackers ... hence the lack of feathers. He did see a vet and it was determined his nudity is most likely due to a lack of proper nutrition.
“While he’s still mostly naked, there’s definitely some new feathers coming in and he’s covered in brand new fuzzy baby feathers so he’s on the mend. He loves fresh fruit, dried banana, and peanuts the most.”
Though the poor baby appears to have been malnourished, one thing is for certain, that’s not the first thing one would notice about him.
“The thing is, if you adopt Hendrix, you’re basically adopting Samuel L. Jackson,” the shelter warned.
“This bird’s language is not for the faint of heart.”
The shelter said the bird is one for calling people the most sinister names one day, then calling them “baby” the very next and tends to say rude phrases in the right context.
“This bird is rated R, parental advisory required, a real sour patch kid if one side was sugar and the other side was arsenic,” the shelter said.
While his language tends to lean on the harsh side, the shelter forgives him because “he dances to music.”
Hendrix is a blue and gold macaw, WJAR reported on June 19. Since he became available, the news station said the applications for adoption have been pouring in. The shelter has also announced the application process for him has closed.
Chantell Rogers, a staff member at the shelter, told WJAR that at first Hendricks was scared of his new surroundings. But once he got comfortable …
“It was very quiet in the shelter for once, there was nobody in the room with him, everybody was up front, and we just heard him start cussing up a storm. We’re not sure if he wasn’t getting the attention he wanted and that was his way of asking for attention,” Rogers said.
Fall River is about a 50-mile drive south from Boston.
This story was originally published June 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM.