BabyBird wrote:My parrot was from a pet shop, in a cage about a quarter size of the one shes in now, with two little pots of seed at the bottom, no water, and she had to share that cage with another parrot. The lady only educated us about the bird so we would tick the review boxes on the paper to say that she had done a good job, simply only telling us this for the money, not for the birds health. She told us the birds wouldn't touch the food and only knock it over(the bowls were 2 little ceramic dishes at the bottom, no wonder they couldn't eat from them) (the conures looked terrified, when I picked the one I wanted the member of staff roughly grabbed it and stuffed him into a box) and they would try to escape, (she had locks around the cage doors) another member of staff came in holding what it seemed to be a dead budgie. The budgies were crammed into cages and stacked up, there were Quakers, conures, 2 galah cockatoos in a cage which looked hardly suitable for 1 of them, I wanted to buy them all.. But I couldn't so I just got my little conure instead, she looked thin and scared when we brought her home, and quite small.. We are told that she's 1 year old, she came with information papery which were printed from what I looks like 'Microsoft office word' with a printer that was lacking black ink, and the information was just copy and pasted for wiki, she came with no documents.. Just a bag of seed and a pot of grit (we don't give her grit though).. Sometimes I wonder, do we even care about the animals anymore, or do we hair see the greed and money in them instead
There is a pet shop nearbye that is very similar to this. I just cant see how people can be so cruel! They just cant see that is a living animal. It upsets me to think about it. Also at the markets we go to there are some people who come each week, about five gccs in a cage hardly big enough for a budgie, their beaks are over grown (A sign of fatty liver disease most likely), and three young galahs squished up into a rusty sortof chicken cage only really big enough for one sun conure and heaps of budgies in a cage way to small, and irns like five in the same size cage as the five gcc. And it goes on and on.
It is so hard not to buy eveyone! I feel sorry for them all, and if those people would just think for a second 'would i apreciate being in a cage that big' would they stop?
Oh also, I dont beleive Ive asked your birdies name?
but I'm happy that she's safe and sound here and not spending another day at that place 
