Keeping a bird around that’s evolved for millions of years to be able to fly, denying it of that privilege, just so you can keep it around indoors for your own enjoyment is insane to me.
Keeping a bird around that’s evolved for millions of years to be able to fly, denying it of that privilege, just so you can keep it around indoors for your own enjoyment is insane to me.
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I didn’t think this was an unpopular opinion. I’ll guess we’ll find out.
You can be a dog person, you can be a cat person. But I think we can all agree bird people are fucking weird.
Not unpopular. This could be said about most animals we keep as pets. Cats and Dogs are different in that they evolved a symbiotic relationship with humans over a long period of time.
Not unpopular.
Imagine if a giant being kept us as pets and chopped our legs off so we could only crawl
I dont think birds should be kept as pets at all. Ive got some push back on that idea but i swear by it.
P.s. This is from someone whos owned budgies in the past. They are awesome animals but i wouldnt feel roght having another unless they were rescued. When i had them I always let them have free roam and unclipped wings. But if youve seen their flawks they dont belong with us.
I think owning a bird period is borderline animal cruelty. Birds are smart. They know they are prisoners. I think they and all other non-domesticated animals should be enjoyed in the wild the way nature intended.
I clipped mine so I could tame it, after that, I let it grow out its wings and now it can fly however much it wants because the cage is always fully open.
unless you mean clipping the feathers that don’t grow back, because that would be fucked.
Not unpopular
I agree and lile to think its a popular opinion. But who knows
Extremely popular opinion.
People do that??????
WTF IS THAT A THING PEOPLE DO!???????
Dimitri Martin has a good joke saying, “I think there’s a fine line between having a pet, and a hostage from a different species.”