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Writer's Block: Bird by Bird
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This is a question I have been dibating in the back of my mind for most of my life now.
When i was about 10 or 11, I went through this phaze where I just absolutely *had to have a bird. Fuel was added to the fire then because it so happened that my best friend was going through the phaze exactly the same time; so it wasn't helping that we were egging each other on, as it were. We were slightly obsessed with the idea of getting a budgy as a pet.
But, at christmas time, we both got our wish, not at the same time though, her before me. -- We both tamed our birds, and would have them hiding in all sorts of things; man-made cubby houses made out of boxes, you name it!
I remember, with slight amusement, but shame at the same time, when I would put my bird willy in a shoe box with holes in the lid. The poor thing would scutter around in there wondering what the heck was going on.
I would also make a kind-of tent out of my perkins braille cover, and put him in there.
---- Maybe it wasn't surprising then, that Willie took off out of the cage and our lives, as soon as he got the chance one Sunday afternoon in 1993. the cage was on its stand outside, a big gust of wind came, and down went the cage, off with the top and out flew the birds, (as we had then aquired Jessie; a peach Faced lovebird which Dad found half dead in our half-finished new house the year previous.)
Was I cruel to my bird? yes probably, but out of love. I was just preventing him from flying away from me all the time.
Getting back to the initial question, is it cruel to keep caged birds? I would have to say I do believe so, yes; especially if there's only one bird. -- I think it's slightly better if owners let their birds out for a fly around on a daily basis, but that's not always preferrable, in which case, I guess, it's not fair. on the other hand though, these breeds are now used to being dimesticated and most probably wouldn't survive in the outside world.; I could be wrong about that; I haven't done a lot of research on this.
I think bird averies are more ideal though because there's stacks of other birds, and, of course a much bigger space to fly around in.
In saying all this though, I have been contemplating getting another bird for sometime though. I'd be interested to try and teach him to talk this time.
til next time, RdFreak
This is a question I have been dibating in the back of my mind for most of my life now.
When i was about 10 or 11, I went through this phaze where I just absolutely *had to have a bird. Fuel was added to the fire then because it so happened that my best friend was going through the phaze exactly the same time; so it wasn't helping that we were egging each other on, as it were. We were slightly obsessed with the idea of getting a budgy as a pet.
But, at christmas time, we both got our wish, not at the same time though, her before me. -- We both tamed our birds, and would have them hiding in all sorts of things; man-made cubby houses made out of boxes, you name it!
I remember, with slight amusement, but shame at the same time, when I would put my bird willy in a shoe box with holes in the lid. The poor thing would scutter around in there wondering what the heck was going on.
I would also make a kind-of tent out of my perkins braille cover, and put him in there.
---- Maybe it wasn't surprising then, that Willie took off out of the cage and our lives, as soon as he got the chance one Sunday afternoon in 1993. the cage was on its stand outside, a big gust of wind came, and down went the cage, off with the top and out flew the birds, (as we had then aquired Jessie; a peach Faced lovebird which Dad found half dead in our half-finished new house the year previous.)
Was I cruel to my bird? yes probably, but out of love. I was just preventing him from flying away from me all the time.
Getting back to the initial question, is it cruel to keep caged birds? I would have to say I do believe so, yes; especially if there's only one bird. -- I think it's slightly better if owners let their birds out for a fly around on a daily basis, but that's not always preferrable, in which case, I guess, it's not fair. on the other hand though, these breeds are now used to being dimesticated and most probably wouldn't survive in the outside world.; I could be wrong about that; I haven't done a lot of research on this.
I think bird averies are more ideal though because there's stacks of other birds, and, of course a much bigger space to fly around in.
In saying all this though, I have been contemplating getting another bird for sometime though. I'd be interested to try and teach him to talk this time.
til next time, RdFreak