Theme
3:27am June 8, 2014
Parrots should be somewhere near human babies in effort.  Seriously.  If you take care of a parrot right, you are providing the parrot with the same amount of stimulation and socialization (including conversation, whether or not the parrot learns to talk back, because their receptive vocabularies are huge) as a young child, for the duration of the parrot’s life.  If you aren’t doing that with your parrot, you’re neglecting the parrot and setting them up for serious psychiatric issues.  Parakeets (at least budgerigars) are just domesticated parrots, so I assume they’re “easy” because people don’t think to provide them with much stimulation and they die easily because most people don’t know the respiratory needs of birds so people see them as kind of disposable too.

Parrots should be somewhere near human babies in effort.  Seriously.  If you take care of a parrot right, you are providing the parrot with the same amount of stimulation and socialization (including conversation, whether or not the parrot learns to talk back, because their receptive vocabularies are huge) as a young child, for the duration of the parrot’s life.  If you aren’t doing that with your parrot, you’re neglecting the parrot and setting them up for serious psychiatric issues.  Parakeets (at least budgerigars) are just domesticated parrots, so I assume they’re “easy” because people don’t think to provide them with much stimulation and they die easily because most people don’t know the respiratory needs of birds so people see them as kind of disposable too.

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