clipping video

[pionus]

i just though a i would share a brief yet true video on wing clipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkRM-AEz10I

they said it right, birds are flying angels.

enjoy.

[Eurycerus]

:] That's sweet. Yes they are so gorgeous when they fly around.

If ever I have seen a case that proves why not to clip wings, I would say Diggy is it. I should've asked to grab a picture of Diggy's "wings" when I was at the vet today since Diggy was toweled and she was extending them. They can barely be called that really. He was pretty savagely mutilated by scissors. I'm praying that since it's spring he'll molt and get brand new wings! It's been really traumatic for both of us since he gets scared and tries to fly but ends up ejecting himself out of the cage or off of his play pen and falling like a rock to the ground (which I'm fairly certain he did at his previous foster home too). I'm devicing strategies to avoid this but it's difficult since I have to open his cage door and clean every two days, three maximum. Since I can't get him out in a non-traumatic way I was cleaning with him just in his cage, but he's taken to freaking out over that now. :/ If I can get a picture of his wings I will just to show people how botched up a wing clipping can get. He could fly for most of his life so he's still probably wondering what the hell's wrong with him.

Don't clip guys! Especially if your parrot has been able to fly for years. They'll be so confused :[

[pionus]

Aw, that's so sad. I can't imagine why someone would want to clip wings so severely. Birds have wings for a reason! BTW I'm not trying to open an argument on clipping I am just writing what I am thinking. But I do hope that if you watch the video and others on clipping that it will open your eyes to how happy bird with wings are.

[Andromeda]

If ever I have seen a case that proves why not to clip wings, I would say Diggy is it. ... He was pretty savagely mutilated by scissors. I'm praying that since it's spring he'll molt and get brand new wings!

Poor Diggy. I feel so bad for the little guy. Everything you describe about him reminds me so much of Jimmy.

Jimmy's clip when we adopted him was HORRIBLE, too. He had no ability to glide whatsoever and would crash to the ground like a rock. I don't know who clipped him but it was botched beyond belief.

He was also in the middle of a molt so he had lots of huge blood feathers and he would frequently break a blood feather when he fell making it even worse because then I had to capture him to try to staunch the bleeding. It was all very traumatic---for both of us but moreso for him, I'm sure.

It's been really traumatic for both of us since he gets scared and tries to fly but ends up ejecting himself out of the cage or off of his play pen and falling like a rock to the ground (which I'm fairly certain he did at his previous foster home too). I'm devicing strategies to avoid this but it's difficult since I have to open his cage door and clean every two days, three maximum. Since I can't get him out in a non-traumatic way I was cleaning with him just in his cage, but he's taken to freaking out over that now. :/

I totally relate to what you're saying about how he ejects himself from his cage when you try to clean it; that's the way Jimmy was, too. If I removed him and put him on the other side of the room on his manzanita tree apparently he was still scared of me cleaning the cage because he would fall off of that perch, too. At the time we were in a 1-bedroom apartment and there wasn't really anywhere else to take him; once I tried having my husband sit with him in the bedroom but he was scared of the furniture. I tried just placing him on the floor (thinking at least he wouldn't fall, right?) but apparently that was also terrifying as he just started screaming and flailing around all over the place.

It was sad.