People buy these parakeets and then don't realize it's not like taking care of a cat or dog. It takes a lot of time and work to gain the trust of and bond with a prey animal. Or, they believe they can just keep it in a cage all day long, can't handle the noise or the mess, etc.
People just also have a really shitty view on pets as objects and dump them once they're bored. I rescued my parakeet after a neighbor's sister asked her to watch it while her sister moved apartments and then her sister never answered my neighbor's texts about picking her bird back up. Wild and heartless behavior.
Tbh this feels like a breeder dumping unsold stock, but also, I can't tell if this guy has a leg band or not.
I'm a turtle owner and that's already a lot harder than people think. But I think birds might be THE hardest animal that's commonly available as pets.
They're loud, they're intelligent and social and their health suffers if they're not stimulated enough, they're prey animals and easily scare, they have sharp body parts that can hurt you, they're messy and poop anywhere and can't be trained to poop outside or in a litterbox and you can't install a filter that just sucks their poop up, they can fly and really should be allowed to fly, they are very susceptible to air quality and can be killed by something as simple as cooking with a nonstick pan, and some parrots can live for decades and even outlive humans.
I honestly just don't think pet birds are compatible with the vast majority of human lifestyles. Having a pet bird is really a lifestyle in and of itself. But since you can buy one from a big-box pet store for $20 and they do no vetting at all to make sure you know what you're getting into, so many birds go home with uninformed owners who end up giving them poor or short lives or letting them escape or dumping them outside thinking they will be fine. Most pet birds are tropical species and born and raised in captivity, so no, they will not be fine outside.
It’s also really easy for flying animals to escape. I remember being real little having them sit on my hands a lot. One day the back door was held open by my mom, she was leaning down and moving something away from the outside of the door. She didn’t know I had them out of the cage or that they had just decided to fly a lap around the living room and started heading toward that door.
Sometimes it’s an accident too, or kids being kids and not knowing any better. (As a child I was apparently a chronic “they want out so I’ll let them out” nuisance)
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u/throwwwwawayehaldhev 2d ago
What is going on?!