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I love birds. Volunteered at a wild bird rescue, wish I had 100 of them, love visiting any place with parrots when travelling. But I would never buy a bird. O
by tapland 7y ago
I love birds. Volunteered at a wild bird rescue, wish I had 100 of them, love visiting any place with parrots when travelling.
But I would never buy a bird. Offering a better place for one who no longer has anyone to take care of it is great, but promoting breeding and sales of captive intelligent animals feels very wrong.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoAs a long time parrot owner, sadly I must agree with you. I devote about two hours a day to my parrot, and even at that he wants even more attention. Volunteering at a parrot rescue organization is probably the better alternative to owning a parrot.
- kortilla 7y agoThis might be ignorant, but in this case would it be more humane to own two so they can entertain each other?
- corndoge 7y agoDepending on the bird this is often the recommended practice.
- logfromblammo 7y agoThere is always the risk that they won't like each other. Or that they will like each other too much, and thereby no longer have any need for the human interaction.
- lrem 7y agoYup, that happened to my family. Probably for the better... Except one of them flew off the window when cleaning the cage. Then the other inexplicably flew off a couple days later. I imagine I should thank my parents for sparing us understanding depression at such a young age.
- tapland 7y agoYou are not legally allowed to get only one in for example Sweden.