(09-06-2013, 12:01 PM)A0130 Wrote: I also clip my bird's wings, as he has had them clipped all his life and doesn't know how to fly. When he tries, and has his flight feathers, he spirals down and I'm so afraid he would get hurt.
I'm sorry, but I find this very hard to accept! I might be on the wrong end here, but I feel birds should not be turned into pets to begin with. It's well and good if you can set up an aviary for them and allow them to fly about. But clipping their wings and putting them in cages, it's unacceptable. I've had a friend who did the same with her giant parrot. It pained me to see her shuffle around in the cage, and mind you, it was a big cage. Birds are meant to be flying about, that's what they stand for (barring a few, which could be kept as pets I suppose). Just as setting them free in the wrong habitat is bad for them, I feel taking them away from their natural habitat and putting them up with toys is as bad.
I really apologize for sounding so harsh. This is a little too touchy a topic.
