Strawfrawg wrote:I see what you're saying, and it's true...all birds are different...but I wouldn't blame anyone here for thinking of parrots and their close kin for this discussion as that's what most of us share our lives with. We're kinda called The Parrot Forum.
As long as we're making distinctions, as an aside I would disagree about "all dogs being dogs" (I can't speak for cats but someone else here probably could). I was raised in the dog world (no, not by wolves) and I can tell you the range of general dispositions across breeds is vast. We didn't do all that selective breeding just for looks, and not even always for selfless love and devotion. The range is smaller than it is in the bird world because we are indeed talking about wholly engineered animals, but spend a day each with a Yorkie, a Saluki, a Rottweiler, a Malamute, and a Foxhound (and those are just random AKC-recognized breeds off the top of my head) and you'll see how different breed characters can be. You might be great with one and suck royally with the rest. True of birds, too, I reckon. There are species I know I wouldn't be very good with.
You may have just hit on the small ripple that's been coming up in some discussions lately...broad generalizations. I personally will try to make fewer in the future. Hahaha...I hereby retract any I've made!
Oh, I agree 100%! (I did dog and cat full time rescue for 6 years so I know a little bit about them, too) But they are breeds within the same species while, when we talk about birds, you are talking not only different species but different genus, families and orders so there are HUGE differences between them.
