abuse

  1. Rico_Tiel

    How do I tell a family friend that what they’re doing is abuse?

    Heyo, so… I was dreading this but I suspected it’d happen… I predicted it pretty accurately, really. Huge Tw: animal cruelty, suffering, and death. So, we have a family friend who has a very, VERY bad history with animals. ESPECIALLY exotics… they have a history of impulsive buying animals...
  2. CeliaCelie

    Advice for an abused macaw

    My sister works at a vet that has been housing a Blue and Gold Macaw for the past three years. She's a rescue case that was dumped by an abusive family but her quality of living has not improved much since being left at the hospital. She's not socialized and has plucked her chest bare. She's...
  3. Kelsih11

    Trimming tail feathers?!

    I work at PetSmart and while talking to one of our dog food reps about the little pineapple GCC we have in store (who has drawn blood with me multiple times now), she told me that a different PetSmart up the street has a sun conure named Lenny that was sold to a family but returned a week later...
  4. M

    Don't buy parrots!

    Hi, I am new here. I, literally, just returned from volunteering at the oldest running parrot sanctuary in the US, The Oasis Sanctuary in Benson, AZ. They have around 700 parrots from budgies to the big cockatoos. This is a life care facility and they will not adopt. Many of these parrots...
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