marie83 wrote: Also you may save this one but where do you think the sweet grey they replace her with is going to go and then the one they sell after that and so on? believe it or not letting her stay for as long as possible is actually sparing others the same fate in the long run as breeders will have to cut down their breeding programs if the chicks aren't selling, the prices will fall and rise in accordance but eventually there will less birds in this horrible cycle.
Fair enough, but as mentioned above, she was three years old- The pet stores around me don't tend to breed anything bigger than a cockatiel or the occasional ringneck, the grey had been sold to the place as a secondhand bird cuz it's owners were moving abroad and couldn't/wouldn't take the bird with them.
