Do dissenters see how owning parrots is humane?

Question

Caring only matters when you care about the truth. ALL pets are meant to be free. Birds are no different because they can fly.

In good homes, parrots don't content with lice, malnourishment, predators and disease. Many species are threatened natively by deforestation and inbreeding. Domestic bloodlines promise a future.

Pet parrots are monogamous animals, who are thrilled spend their lives with one person -- unlike cats, for example, who are often tolerated as they howl and scheme to escape.

You cannot "set them free" here. They aren't adapted to the cold. Setting them "free" is like leaving the family puppy in the Tundra. It isn't all sunshine for farmers, either. Quaker parrots are euthanized for enduring the cold long enough to eat crops.

Adoption is the way. It's true. People buy and sell parrots ignorantly, and they need homes. My birds eat with us, take showers, cuddle, play freely and tease, and we are a fun family. Their lives would not be improved if we were apart.

I was hoping that one of those bold people who contribute posts condemning bird owners would pop in here.

As a note to #3: Your response is insightful. Even better than breeder buying, right now, is parrot adoption. There are more homeless parrots now than ever, and adoption centers are everywhere.

Importation of parrots has been illegal in the US since the 1980s. Adopting rather than buying will eliminate the demand for breeding all together.

It's not a popular opinion, but I don't think that birds other than those who are extremely threatened should ethically be bred. Acceptable efforts would include the Red Spectacled Parrot, Golden Conures, and several Toucans and Aracari (Rhamphastids -- who will notice?), not for marketing

Answer 1

You are a complete idiot if you do not realize that Asians came from South Africans, much like American Indians in New Mexico came from Asians. If you really think it makes more sense that Caucasians and Asians both came from Apes and South Africans and Asians just so happened to develop slanted eyes being on 2 seperate parts of the planet than you are delusional. You are the result of educating an idiot. You memorize everything you read but your ability to reason is that of an idiot!

Answer 2

I can only speak about what I know, and truthfully, I'd love to have a parrot.

However, I think that some of those who think that it's inhumane to own a parrot look at the methods of obtaining the birds. Often, adult birds are seized from the wild. Those birds that were born wild do not make suitable pets, but their offspring do. So sometimes buying birds contributes to the business of capturing wild birds. It's best, therefore, to buy from a reputable breeder (one that does NOT obtain wild birds or the direct offspring of wild birds).

Then of course, there are those people who think, "it's got wings, it should be free," without thinking of the consequences of releasing a captive bred bird into the wild. That's just ignorant and cruel.

Answer 3

I don't have a problem with people owning pet birds as long as the birds are not wild caught. Not sure that people really know for sure where their pet birds come from...they may get them from a pet store claiming they were bred to be pets..but who really knows. There is alot of smuggling of wild caught birds, and it is because there is a DEMAND for these birds as pets. If so many people did not want them as pets...there would not be a reason for smugglers, and maybe they would be doing a lot better in the wild as their numbers would be greater. I love birds, I have dedicated my life to them..I am an ornithologist, and that is why I will NEVER own one as a pet, I prefer to love them in their natural habitat...the wild!

Answer 4

as long as you don't use pesticides or smoke cigs

Answer 5

O.K.