So when people walk in the park with their dogs and somebody pets them, that person has 'bad manners'?Michael wrote:No. I will have to completely disagree. I realize that it's a public park and anyone can watch. However, no one has the right to start touching without permission. It is not only rude but also dangerous. It is the parents' responsibility to teach their own kids and when I run into problems it is because they do not. I don't have a problem with curious kids that want to watch and learn. It's the ones that are worse behaved than my parrots that I am concerned about.
I don't let my parrots run off and start biting/touching other people's children so the least I'd expect is that parents don't let their kids touch my birds. Most of the time this is the case, but some of the parents are really something else, so it's no wonder that the kids are messed up.
Mr.Darcy wrote:Lets take some time to educate the kids/strangers. Not create fear base of the birds by telling everyone they bite! Just my humble opinion...
The Man wrote:So when people walk in the park with their dogs and somebody pets them, that person has 'bad manners'?Michael wrote:No. I will have to completely disagree. I realize that it's a public park and anyone can watch. However, no one has the right to start touching without permission. It is not only rude but also dangerous. It is the parents' responsibility to teach their own kids and when I run into problems it is because they do not. I don't have a problem with curious kids that want to watch and learn. It's the ones that are worse behaved than my parrots that I am concerned about.
I don't let my parrots run off and start biting/touching other people's children so the least I'd expect is that parents don't let their kids touch my birds. Most of the time this is the case, but some of the parents are really something else, so it's no wonder that the kids are messed up.
-The Man
Michael wrote:No. I will have to completely disagree. I realize that it's a public park and anyone can watch. However, no one has the right to start touching without permission. It is not only rude but also dangerous. It is the parents' responsibility to teach their own kids and when I run into problems it is because they do not. I don't have a problem with curious kids that want to watch and learn. It's the ones that are worse behaved than my parrots that I am concerned about.
I don't let my parrots run off and start biting/touching other people's children so the least I'd expect is that parents don't let their kids touch my birds. Most of the time this is the case, but some of the parents are really something else, so it's no wonder that the kids are messed up.
Michael wrote:Mr.Darcy wrote:Lets take some time to educate the kids/strangers. Not create fear base of the birds by telling everyone they bite! Just my humble opinion...
Ok, if you've been following anything I've written in the past, you'd know that I am normally quite patient and do my best to educate about parrots. Often times I'll let the kids hold and pet the parrots after I can show them what to do. This is more so for socializing the parrots, but it's a good opportunity to teach the public as well. As spokesperson of this forum I always try to solicit new membership. I made cards to give out to interested parrot owners so they can come join the discussion. Don't get me wrong, I do try a lot. But there are days when they kids are just too much and I just want to work with my parrots that it's easier to just say they bite than to deal with kids that don't listen.
You are absolutely right, I'm sure after they heard not to touch a hot stove or talk to strangers, this was immediately followed by them being told not to touch parrots in the local park. Seeing a parrot in the park is a little different than a dog on his stroll. You will see thousands of dogs, but when somebody brings a parrot around you must expect the attention you are going to recieve.Kim S wrote:The Man wrote:So when people walk in the park with their dogs and somebody pets them, that person has 'bad manners'?Michael wrote:No. I will have to completely disagree. I realize that it's a public park and anyone can watch. However, no one has the right to start touching without permission. It is not only rude but also dangerous. It is the parents' responsibility to teach their own kids and when I run into problems it is because they do not. I don't have a problem with curious kids that want to watch and learn. It's the ones that are worse behaved than my parrots that I am concerned about.
I don't let my parrots run off and start biting/touching other people's children so the least I'd expect is that parents don't let their kids touch my birds. Most of the time this is the case, but some of the parents are really something else, so it's no wonder that the kids are messed up.
-The Man
YES! I always learned to ASK first before petting anybody's pet. Not all dogs are childfriendly or even people friendly!
I'm with Michael on this one. People should teach their children to ask first.
It's amazing that all of you can pass judgement on to all of these kids from the park for displaying curiosity, and read this post without concern.Michael wrote:There have been other times where kids would just run up to the parrot throw their fingers in and my Kili would make me proud and give them a good nip. Those kind of kids would run away and never come back. Luckily Kili doesn't bite that hard so I won't get in trouble.
The Man wrote:It's amazing that all of you can pass judgement on to all of these kids from the park for displaying curiosity, and read this post without concern.Michael wrote:There have been other times where kids would just run up to the parrot throw their fingers in and my Kili would make me proud and give them a good nip. Those kind of kids would run away and never come back. Luckily Kili doesn't bite that hard so I won't get in trouble.
-The Man
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