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end the bird trade

posted 18 years ago by mittenkg
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I'm a bird-lover and one thing I really got out of this film is my reinforced belief of how important it is to not support the bird trade industry. It's so tempting to have birds in our homes because they are so beautiful and lovely but when you learn how they are taken from their natural habitats (If you have the DVD watch the Short Film: Tribute to Conner to learn a little about it) it is too sad and not worth the pleasure they give us. Even if you buy a domestically bred bird, you are contributing to the demand for the birds, and encouraging bird-catchers (and poachers) to trap more of them.

Please don't take a bird as a pet--Like other exotic animals too numerous to name, it's better for them to live in the wild.

I hope you all agree!

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] MyOpinions 12 years ago

I do indeed agree. I realize this is a very old post, but the message still applies.

Support bill H.R. 3359 to BAN wild animals in circuses!
http://breakthechainus.com/

[–] questionablesellerwarnin 11 years ago

It's great to live in the wild...until you're attacked and eaten by a red tail hawk. That photo in the film was one of the saddest things I've seen in a film.

[–] friendoffilm 10 years ago

As the owner of a wonderfully affectionate 4 year old pet Congo African Grey Parrot who was born in captivity, as opposed to being wild-caught and imported here to the United States, I take issue with the notion that people shouldn't have exotic birds as pets.

I do agree, however, that wild-caught exotic birds do not make good pets, because they've been too traumatized and high strung to train to be decent pets, and I'm glad that the United States put a ban on the import of all wild-caught exotic birds here into the United States, except for an occasional breeding program. This happened a bit over 20 years ago, when the Clinton Administration came into power.

[–] urbi 10 years ago

I just watched the documentary and I liked it very much. Right now in my city there are flocks of macaws and parrots, which were originally (a few of them) somebody's pets. And even when you get really excited watching them fly across the city, it makes me sad thinking they shouldn't be here but in the jungle, from where they're from.

So I totally support your idea of not take birds as a pets, not if they're from poachers, neither if they're from breeders; the birds are supposed to live free, not in a cage, and in their original environment.