Dear God, what a nightmare...I guess I'm just being "logical", lol, shame on me...It just seems like if someone finds a bird outside, any type of bird, and it walks-up to them, allows them to touch it, steps-up for them, etc. (forgetting whether or not it speaks or whistles human-whistles), you'd think that it would occur to them that the bird is probably not a wild bird, lol...I've seen a ton of these lately, some of the people who have found them have come right on here directly after finding the bird in order to find out what size of cage to buy, what to feed them, what toys to buy, etc., with absolutely not a word about finding the bird's owners or how to go about doing that...and then when they're given advice about how to go about finding the real owners of the bird and encouraged to do-so, they make up multiple excuses about why they can't post on Craigslist or anywhere else, why they can't call and notify local vets, rescues, pet shops, etc. My favorite was someone who posted that they absolutely refused to post an ad on their local Craigslist pages that they had found someone's pet parrot because "Where I live the people will just contact me, trying to claim that they are the bird's owner just so they can get a new pet bird"...My first thought (besides the obvious that they didn't have to post any details about the bird and could screen anyone who contacted them, lol), was "Isn't that exactly the same thing that you're doing, taking someone's pet illegally and immorally, just because you want a pet bird?
While I guess I am grateful that most of the people who are finding these birds are at the very least seeking-out advice on how to properly care for the bird, it's a double-edged sword for sure.
I saw something even more horrible the other day with the whole "Picasso" situation...Marlene had done a "Live Stream" regarding Picasso being missing, this took place about 15 days after he had gotten loose, and it was well advertised in-advance by Marlene that she was going to do the Live Stream, because she wanted to update everyone who was contacting her for info on what was going on, and because she wanted to collect any possible new info about any sightings of Picasso in the great LA area, etc. I didn't watch the Live-Stream, I didn't even know about it until the next day after it had taken place, but I decided to watch it to see what was going on with searching for him, leads, etc. I'm so, so sorry that I watched it...even though it's not "live", the live-chat that took place during the Live-Stream still runs down the side of the YouTube page, so you can read every comment that was made during the Live-Stream...Some heartless, cold, messed-up person (an adult, not a kid, as they proudly confessed right at the end of the Live-Stream as Marlene was signing-off) right at the beginning of this Live-Stream that lasted well over an hour, stated that they were at a McDonald's "downtown" (taken to mean "downtown LA" obviously), and that Picasso, or some other Moustache Parakeet, was right outside of the McDonald's and was seen by many people inside, and that they had walked outside and were trying to get the bird down from the tree...Now the only reason this was believable at-first was because this guy said that as soon as he was made aware that there was a parrot in a tree outside, he had gone online on his phone and looked-up what species of parrot it was, figured out it was a Moustache Parakeet, and then did a Google Search for "lost Moustache Parakeet in Los Angeles", and of course all of Marlene's ad's and info popped right up in the search results, and this guy went right to her YouTube page and saw that a Live-Feed was going on, and went into it so he could see if this was her bird...It was horrible, as everyone on the live-chat on YouTube was going nuts, trying to get Marlene's attention while she was talking about what had been going on, but because Marlene could only see the "superchat" comments and not the live-chat comments on YouTube unless someone made a monetary donation to her, people were going crazy, emailing her, telling this guy to take a photo of the bird and email it to her, which he kept saying that he did, but he had sent it to her YouTube email and not her Instagram email, which is her main email, etc. It went on and on and on and on throughout the entire live-stream, and the worst part? At least between 20-30 people actually cared so much about helping Marlene find her bird that they sent her a donation (minimum was $1.99) so that she would get an instant alert and they could post a message about getting down to the "McDonald's downtown" because her bird was there, check your email, etc....Now this guy was, at least to me, obviously lying because he would not state which McDonald's he was at, he just kept saying "the McDonald's downtown", meaning "downtown LA", where there are probably at least 100 McDonald's, he wouldn't take a photo of the bird because his iPhone wasn't working, etc. It went on, and on, and on, and on, and people believed him...Here's the really sad part, Marlene wasn't fooled by this guy and stated that she needed this guy to send her proof that there was a Moustache Parakeet at the McDonald's, along with the address, otherwise she didn't care, which made some people angry at her, but she then stated that "Since Picasso had been lost, she has gotten tons and tons of people contacting her, telling her that they have either seen her bird somewhere, or that they caught her bird and had him, or they knew who had him, etc.", and that at first she had actually been running around all over the LA area, which is HUGE, wasting her time, money, gas, etc. chasing people who were either truly mistaken and it was actually a wild Amazon or Ringneck in a tree or that someone had caught, or they were simply flat-out lying to get to meet her because they were her "fans", or they wanted her to give them money when she arrived because they had contacted her about the bird being there, but it had "flown away" before she got there, etc...Anyway, at the very end of the live-stream when she was about to log-off, after this horrible, heartless, waste of oxygen of a human being had literally screwed with not only Marlene but also with dozens of people who were trying to help her find her bird, a lot who live in the LA area and had actually driven "downtown" LA, which is a massive area, going from McDonald's to McDonald's looking for this jerk, he quickly posted a comment that said "By the way, I live in Alaska, this is my son's YouTube account, have a nice day!"....
WTF is wrong with people?
