wow! This is terrible!

I just found a website, and it has a whole page of swimming parrots! They have the parrots on a perch, lower it into the water and the poor birds frantically swim to a ladder to escape. I'm stunned, this is so stupid! I have no doubt they LOVE their birds, they're just ignorant to the safety issue. They also have a fan club D:

Here's the link to the website, seizure warning(not joking)

Although all these are terrible, I was particularity distressed by the cockatoos. Rosie literally CAN'T fly if she's too wet, her feathers become completely water logged and it can take well over an hour for her to dry off. Seeing the galah and the umbrella I can imagine their feathers being waterlogged, and they feel themselves getting heavier and heavier as they try to get out D:

Luckily it seems they aren't forced to swim far, only a couple feet. And it was for a "pool party event". But still! just terrible. Apart from just the stress of being in deep water imagine what the chlorine must be doing to there skin and feathers,

Galah


Hawkhead


hyacinth



hybrid macaw


Sulfur crested cockatoo

Oh my gosh. I can't even bring myself to play the video after seeing the pics and reading your descrption. This sounds like the equivalen of making dogs fight. It's not right and dangerous and negligent and abusive.

Don't worry, there doesn't seem to be any videos from the pool. I only watched one of the videos, of a hawk head "dancing", but to me it looks like they are holding a scary object to get the bird to display it's crest and move around.

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Wow... Just... Wow. Horrible.

And that sight... Aahhhh!!

So is this a breeder or something? I can't believe they own HYACINTHS but can't think that they aren't MEANT To swim


Edit ;; I tried looking for videos, but couldn't find any either. I saw the hawkhead video as well - I didn't think about them holding up an object, but I see it now... Wow...
They even have a toucan!

I looked around on their youtube page, as well as their website. No mention of being breeders, pretty sure they're just people with a flock of parrots.

I can't bring myself to watch it. I hope the parrots were into the swimming. But if they weren't, the stress would probably resurface later as a behavioral issue.

That poor hawkhead doesn't look healthy, either.

that's just wrong on so many levels

I don't care what excuse they provide or how short the distance was those poor animals had to "swim"! That is animal abuse, plain and simple! Those birds look distressed to me, especially the hyacinth!

MomtoPercy, I completely agree

I found myself getting VERY angry over only the photos. I won't even go to their website, out of fear there is a "contact me" button. They would NOT be happy with what I want to tell them.

Those birds must be absolutely PETRIFIED!!!

I am speechless and outraged at the same time.

I'd like to take the guardians and shuff them UNDER water for a good, long while, with hungry sharks around them.

I didn't watch any videos, but I did visit their website. To me, it seems like the parrots swimming (and everything else they've posted) is a publicity stunt. Their site is "glamorized" and although I'm sure they do love their fids, I just don't understand how they think it's ok to put them in a swimming pool.

You might be surprised.

My parents had a pool, and the parrots were out in the tree one day. They saw us splashing and playing in the water... and they like splashing and playing in water...

So they flew from the tree, into the pool, on their own!

My sun conure also flew into my fish pond one day, on his own...

I, of course, nearly had a heart attack.

But if I owned a pool and had birds loose in the yard, I could see where you might want to train them how to get out of it...

Hyacinths always look like they're smiling to me, but that one looks like he's enjoying himself....

They don't swim. They open their wings, and float. They can do a sort of a breast stroke type movement... but if they get tired of holding their little heads above water, they are dead!

And for the record... we had a macaw that used a little backyard kiddy pool with a slide... He would climb the little ladder, slide down the slide sideways, and hop into the water on his own. The water wasn't very deep though. And no pool chemicals.

And like everyone else said, the chemicals can't be good for them, and all it would take would be one good splash to drown them. I don't see this as a safe thing to do, and wouldn't recommend it!

Charlotte [my Hawkhead ] acts like that when shes scared. Its not a happy thing.

This is abuse. I'd report them.

Pinkbirdy said:

Charlotte [my Hawkhead ] acts like that when shes scared. Its not a happy thing.

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No, the only one that looks remotely happy is the Hy-Hy...

The red macaw is clearly in a full on panic!

Mine certainly went into a panic when they suddenly discovered they were in over their heads...

Another major concern I have is the chlorine....swimming pools are treated with chemicals.....

I was brave enough to go on the site. The birds on floatable pool toys did not seem to be that scared. That said it is a shame no one can scold them and tell them its a parrot not a duck (which would probably enjoy it more then these birds).

Copperarabian said:

Don't worry, there doesn't seem to be any videos from the pool. I only watched one of the videos, of a hawk head "dancing", but to me it looks like they are holding a scary object to get the bird to display it's crest and move around.

HAWKHEAD PARROT DANCING Mystique Hips Don't Lie - YouTube

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You are right, you can see they are shaking something around him! Idiots!!

OH MY GOD are you kidding me?? how mean is that?? gosh, i dint know people could be that dumb. that is so mean!