by Pajarita » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:51 pm
My dear, there are many ways that people keep animals but there is only one right way and that is the one that Nature determined. This is not our opinion, it's a scientific fact. You can keep a bird eating high protein all the time, exposed to a human light schedule, never allowing any exercise, with bad light, etc and the bird is not going to drop dead in a matter of days, weeks or even months but it's a fact that the animal will not be happy or healthy. Again, we can talk about people's opinions but nature ways are what they are and not a matter of opinion.
Parrots are all undomesticated species and pet parrots have exactly the same physiological and psychological needs as the ones that live in the wild. Unfortunately for them, pet parrots are 100% dependent on their owners for everything and there are no laws to prohibit anybody from keeping them the way the person wants to (people have kept them in closets, in basements, outside, in a small cage with bad food, etc and there is nothing anybody can do about it because, as far as the law goes, they are nothing but property, the same as a table or a chair). We tell you what your bird needs to be happy and healthy but it's up to you whether you follow our advice or not.
And you are absolutely right that keeping a bird the right way is VERY VERY hard... it's expensive, time consuming and labor intensive, and there is no doubt that most people are not willing or able to do it. And that's why birds are not for everybody and why, in my personal opinion, should be kept only by people who love them enough to put their needs before their own desires.