I love birds like all of us here. Ever since I got my baby Rocky I call all birds BabyBirds, even grown up wild birds, because they were all BabyBirds at one time. Anyway, today an awful depraved person who lives on my road (I don't know him) did something horrible and I'm so upset. He lured a small flock of Canada Geese onto his property and beat them to death with a baseball bat! He was arrested for animal cruelty. Fortunately Maine had the strictest animal cruelty laws in the country but that won't bring those poor BabyBirds back. How could someone do that to innocent BabyBirds! He's a despicable person who deserves the same treatment!
Thats truly despicable.
there was this one time I went to a mall along with my parents and sibling, and we went to a floor where there is a pet shop, a very well-known one called ' QualityPets '. I and my little brother (since we both love animals) decided to go check it out. I enter the shop, There were such adorable little cichlids all around! But they put beta fishes in small cups, the poor fishes looked depressed. I then heard chirping sounds. I followed the sounds, and there it is! a birb section! i was truly happy, I thought the bird's health and maintainance would be just the like the name; with quality. But those were only thoughts. There was a blue-and-yellow macaw, put solitarily in a small cage with nothing other than a natural wood perch (only 1) with two small steel bowls which had seed and water. That macaw was so happy to see people, climbing against the cage walls. It even spun when i asked it to, and even gave a handshake as well. This poor bird was so social and joyful; it was only 3 years old (According to staff) and had many years to go. but the macaw lastly started becoming aggressive and decided to tick me off, I decided to respect it's decision and left it. oh and, it could talk! said ' hello ' ' step up ' and such. But it was put in such a poor environment.
My gaze then moved onto the smaller birds. Finches, Budgies, lovebirds. But they were in poor condition as well. Budgerigars: most of them were sick, with only some of them singing with joy and only 2 with healthy feathers/has no bald spots.
finches: most of them had lipoma under their vents, and a society finch was lying dead in the corner of the cage.
Lovebirds: Were obese, all of them feather plucked.
the next site i saw was the most disturbing. I cried just as I saw it..
i noticed a cage in the very bottom, i crouched to look at the cage. I thought it'd be empty because of the way it looked, but it was not... it was an albino budgerigar left to die. Swollen vent, Gasping for air, Desperately trying to eat food, and tried to approach me when it noticed. it was a mess. I really wished i could do something, but before that, I had to go.
I really hate the way some petshops only care about the money, not the health or maintenance. it really makes my blood boil!
