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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never allowed my son to have birds. I don't believe in them as pets. Birds were meant to fly and we are not equipped to offer them an appropriate environment. Also, birds can be quite difficult to care for properly.[/quote]

It is cruel to own a caged bird.[/quote]

Do you have a cat? [b]Keeping your cat indoors is unnatural and cruel[/b], but that’s absolutely what you should be doing because cats are invasive species and kill millions of rodents and birds, who didn’t evolve to deal with housecats, every year.

Keeping fish in an unclean fish tank is cruel.

Keeping a dog and not giving it love and attention is cruel.

Pet ownership is s mixed bag everywhere, and there’s plenty of cruelty to go around. A well-socialized bird with plenty of time outside the cage and maybe a bird friend is no worse than any of the scenarios above. [/quote]

The bolded is ridiculous. Your opinion, maybe. But far from fact. And not like the other things you mention at all.[/quote]

Cats like to hunt and kill. It’s what they do, ask any TNR whackadoodle. That said, cats belong indoors because they’re killing other animals and even driving some to extinction outside the Middle East, where they originally came from. Yet keeping an indoor cat who sleeps on the sofa 23 hours a day (like my mom’s cat) is unnatural. You think your indoor cat is happy, but how can you tell, and happy relative to what? If you can get all misty-eyed about free flight in the Amazon (as a prey bird, which is actually really stressful), then why aren’t you concerned about stifling your cat’s natural behavior, which is killing rodents somewhere in the Middle East?

I’m against parrot ownership for most people, because most people don’t know how to give a parrot the socialization it needs while avoiding hormonal behavior. You don’t know much about parrots, is the problem. 
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