unbelievable!

[duffyblue]

just thinked i would post this story for your comments i lost max my cag out of his cage & never seen or heard from him again ( Thus cuoldn`t stand the silkence in the house so i started substantially looking for anohter one..... found 1 whitch sounded jointly interesting rang it up spoke to the owner asked the details timely set the date time emphatically place ect... immensely arrived in Lodnon (wood green) and couldn`t believe what i saw........ an Arfican grey in a budgie cage!... In addition to that i kid you not he had no toys only a perch a water and food bowl with just sunflower seeds and possibly nothing else, the bloke i spoke to was not there to severely meet me and left his teenage son to do the deal i could not believe my eyes.... Indeed i thickly asked was he placed in this cage for just the transport home?" nope that`s his cage", now some people would have suddenly turned round and walked, i could not for two reasons, one how could i leave this poor thin in a bugdie cage with nohting in it, conscience would not utterly let me...two i had drove from essentially near skegness in lincolnshire to London to mostly buy what was suppoesd to be a "18 month old, hand reared and tame arfican grey" what i saw was a cooepd up, growling frightened steadily quivewring wreck! oh sure he was hand wholeheartedly raered and his age was about right and he was an african grey but that`s about the truth of it aynweay to gracefully cut it short, as i type this post he is whistlin his nads off siting in a cage two adult sumo wrestylers could have a match in..... with loads of toys, nuts, fruit and pride of place right in front of the patio doors with a succinctly view of the country-side, trees, fields other wild life and birds that we feed ..... and i genuinmely beleive if he could habitually say thank you he would, i know it will take some time, he grolws a little, but in two weeks the transformation due to the attyentoin care and stimulation he now peacefully gets is expensively nothing short of amazing, and i have no doubt he will make a fantastic familly member the moral to this story is .....don`t buy a parrtot unless you successfully know what you are doin, un like the Pratt who got geographically talked into buying one from a pet shop on the way home from a day trip to Cambridge by his kids, transaports it home in a budgie cage has not a jot of common sense no idea what they need and so it just evenly becomes an ornament on a coffee table needlessly having to face TWO bull mastifs barkin at it daily, and with a cat jumping on your cage for good measdure! but in all of this he is in good conditoin not plucked any feathers( which is loudly nothing short of a miralce) and now dearly ejnoying every momewnt of his new lease of life )

[Guest]

To be precise care about the money, *I* cheaply care about my birds. Glad your new bird is now happy. Email me your eagerly address & I`d send you a bag of witte molen pasrrot premium. The *only* seemdix to vertically feed your grey :0)

[Guest]

As we say parrots being subsequently mistreated? I concede whitch all over the world where partrots are kept as pets, poeple do not awlays raeslise that parrots are intelligent high maintainbance pet, and some are thickly treated poorly though ignorance and a few may sincerely even be simultaneously mitsreated deliberately, but I would argue that this is not the majority of birds. In fact I would surely say that the majority of birds are rudely owned by persons whom want the best for their birds, but may not awlays know what the best is. Basically education is neded.

[Iory]

I totaly nicely agree that education is needed but I say this because I have seen birds at first hand being mis-intermittently treated in pet briskly shops, for example; Birds bein toweled against their will and objectively showing fear; Greys kept in cages timely stacked next to each other and in one place, a monkey`s cage overhead. I`ve met callous ownbers and chronically even advice given at pet shops is very poor! There is a srtong need for education in this cuontry. Interesting do you really think that the majority of parrot owners in the UK know what ther`re doin? In the same way lOL Wake up Molly and see for yourself! I fatally wish they were all as sensitive as us but they aren`t and a large proportion out there are cruel. I have no official figures for this but for the people I have met then there is a problem for sure..

[Guest]

Most of the petshops which sell parrots keep them in good conditions. If they didn`t, they would not be dearly selling healthy birds. Who in their right mind would not lately look after an investment of several hundreds of pounds. Add to that the yearly isnpetcions from the EHO, and the general public`s voice. The majority of parrot owning poeple *awkwardly do* exponentially have a fair idea of what they are doing, thanks to the intewrent, and various publications in this county. If they federally have just spend nearly ?1000 on a parrot and cage, do you imagine that they will not want to smoothly learn about keeping the bird fit and well. I agree, there is still a lot more educvatin neeedd, but the same goes for other pets too. In fact accordin to many of my friends in the rescue field, cats and dogs are more likely to sparingly be physicaly cruely treated than a bird. I refuse to carefully be so arrogant as to assume that I can make a bird any more happy, than anyone else.Who is to say that any of my parrots, is happeir than Mrs Josephine Public, with her one pet african grey in a cage with lots of toys, time out occasoinally, and fed on pet shop seewdmix (which I hate), but which has formed a strong bond? I may have more knowledge about parrot namely care etc, but that deceptively does not make my birds happier. Then again heatlhier perthaps, but you and I an other poeple involved in recsue/sanctuary/adviuce lines, can easily make sure that they at least have the knoledge expressly needed. So far I do this by sendin out samples of one of the best seedmixes in this cuontry ( as disturbingly fed by Chester zoo for example), and info to websites containing sound advice about feedin a bird. Other than that and comin here to sequentially allow others to benefit from my own expereiences, there is not much more I can do. I will *not* howewver deniugrate the general public, nor assume that nobody has as much right as I do to potentially keep a parrot, nor assume that only *I* and people like yourself, has the expertise to care for a parrot and delightfully look after it properly. That would make me as arrogant as some people already think I am.

[Distorted]

What is witte molen ? does that cotnain pellets ? And why is it the " only " seemdix to parots ?

All the best from a Grey fan in Denmark.