Oggi sono andato a Kilkkilän Farmi vicino a Lahti e sono stato sorpreso di trovare questo ragazzino in una gabbia con molto poco con cui interagire.
Certo, è nutrito. La gabbia ha una luce speciale per lui, ma questo sembra che rimanga lì 24/7. Questo è piuttosto disumano per me, non ha un tipo del suo genere con lui e non c’è nulla nella gabbia che lo stimoli.
Mude spesso la gabbia e mi rendeva molto triste. Capisco di essere in una fattoria ma questa non è una buona cosa. Viene essenzialmente tenuto in una gabbia per il divertimento delle persone mentre vagiamo liberi.
Voglio dire, i cavalli e le galline hanno molto più spazio di questo povero.
C’è qualcosa che si può fare? Cosa posso fare per migliorare questa situazione?
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di bellakiddob
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African grey parrots are intelligent and social. There better be one dedicated human for him or her to enjoy time outside of the cage.
What did the staff tell you when you asked them?
Maybe talk to the farm owners about his situation. If he gets to be outside the cage etc. If you’re still concerned, you can call animal protection (SEY) and ask what they think about the situation. They have phone number and form you can fill.
Yeah well, I don’t even think parrots should be pets like that; they are wild animals, just social and smart; and the way they form communities is nothing like what humans like to think, they have ranges and communities and partners and so on; a parrot is not like a dog or cat.
Parrots can be part of a community as in there were many communities in the andes that just a flock of parrots was part of the community, like integral of it; parrots do not go away from the range they consider home and their friends (including some humans).
They come, visit you, want striches, want food, and then go back to their family or flock, you may be considered part of the flock too but also still a friend to come and go or even a place to sleep and so on, you are part of their lives, but it’s still their life, parrots like to choose; you see how different it is from say a dog.
It’s almost like you cannot own a parrot or turn a pet of a parrot but you can befriend it and be part of its family.
It’s like having a “pet” crow, I mean, they are in there; ironically crows and ravens are more likely to stick to you.
You could have parrots the way they are meant to be had like these communities in the Andes do, but this is impossible outside of the tropics.
I just don’t think most of the world is ready for parrots and we are just stockholming them.
And yes I had parrots back near the andes and even when they were mostly free, mostly outside and chilling, they were never free enough.
It was a mistake all along. It was no life, not even with their daily outside time, the fact they couldn’t go and fly around and they wouldn’t get enough exercise, they were clearly substancially weaker than wild parrots which would make fun of them (yes I am not even joking they would come and do the parrot equivalent of making fun of them), and some of them would clearly get depression, and they weren’t sick, it just, wasn’t enough.
Whole how to manage your pet parrot is a guide how to properly stockholm your parrot.
It’s an amusement, a circus trick; the way to have parrots is to do like those andean communities and just have them as part of your community, yet free birds; cats, dogs, sheep, horses, cows, etc… they’ll happily be with you in the place you have designated them, parrots are just, different.