| luciedove |
| | 12/05/06 at 01:45 PM | Reply with quote | #1 |
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Please do not post any links or websites in your messages that include breeder referrals or pet stores that sell animals. This includes the website's links.
If there is information that you would like to share with us, please copy the information directly into your message or make it available in some other way.
After much uproar from animal rights groups and the public, many major pet stores have stopped selling cats and dogs, but have now turned to smaller animals and birds; however, it's wrong to sell them for the same reasons it is wrong to sell cats and dogs.
We at the New York Bird Club, believe that not one living creature should be sold or bred for profit or otherwise.
Why?
1. Because it is ethically and morally wrong. This is why slavery no longer exists and people no longer are for sale. Selling live, captive animals in stores is an idea whose time has passed. I think many people have already come to that realization, however, big business has deep pockets, and they are doing everything possible to perpetuate the pet industry.
2. Stores and breeders are contributing to the pet overpopulation problem, causing millions of healthy animals to be killed each year to make room for "new merchandise". Pet stores acquire their animals from breeders (factories) who earn a living breeding (manufacturing) animals which are sold in the same way that clothing, furniture, cars, etc. are. Breeders often work with pet stores to glut the market with babies.
3. Pet stores are simply earning a profit, and whether or not the animal is well cared for after a purchase is not an issue with them. In an attempt to squeeze every dollar they can from you, they may give you incorrect advice about the needs of your purchase, i.e. clipping if they provide grooming services; expensive cages for rodents when you can better make your own with less expensive; dangerous toys; Bird Protector by 8 in 1 and similar products containing poison; grit for hook bills; oyster shell that contains heavy metals including lead; sandpaper perch covers which are abrasive which can lead to foot injuries and infection, to name but a few. Commercial gain, not compassion is their motivation.
Furthermore, many pet stores are uneducated about the needs of the animals, especially birds, and give out potentially dangerous and incorrect advice. And the truth of the matter is, we really know very little about the correct care of animals and birds. Who in fact knows more about their care than the animals themselves, but they are caged and are unable to care for themselves in the correct manner and cannot attend to their needs.
4. Since they just want to make a profit, sick and injured animals are seldom seen by vets in pet stores (abuse). Psychological needs are dismissed or laughed at. The sick and injured are merely casualties like fruit gone bad in a supermarket to be disposed of, or to suffer in the back room or basement until he dies. It means nothing to business that the "merchandise" has a beating heart and feels pain.
What Can You Do to Help?
The only way to stop pet stores from selling and mistreating parrots is to stop the demand by not buying ANYTHING in a store that sells live creatures.
Even if you know that a pet store treats its birds responsibly and the staff is caring, you are supporting the theory that selling live animals is okay in our society, and you are supporting all the retailers that sell animals. You are paying for cruelty, suffering, needless breeding, homelessness and deaths of millions of live creatures, and you are as much to blame.
You can also speak with managers or CEO's and ask them to work with ethical shelters and sanctuaries to adopt out animals instead of selling them.
Stop the cycle. Opt to adopt. Consider the reasons you would like to have a parrot. There are millions of healthy, homeless animals in shelters right now that are waiting for a good home and to be loved by you.
http://www.peta.org/about/WhyAnimalRights.asp?c=weekly_enews
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| David |
| | 12/07/06 at 04:23 PM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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If selling cockroaches were legal, they'd try to sell them as well. Can you see the PR trying to promote cockroaches as pets. Low maintenance, don't need much space, inexpensive, kid friendly, like to be stroked, and they respond to their names, lol. Great pet for a hobbyist. |
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| Advocate |
| | 12/07/06 at 06:36 PM | Reply with quote | #3 |
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"They" do sell cockroaches. Called Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. I have no idea what the point is of collecting all these living beings. Even Preying Mantis, and other unsuspecting souls. |
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| Lillian |
| | 12/08/06 at 12:02 PM | Reply with quote | #4 |
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The situation with the breeding of parrots is heartbreaking. What you are really supporting when you buy that bundle of fluff is a cruel, horrific industry where birds live and die in terrible circumstances.
You need to realize that, for every fluffy baby you see, somewhere, parent birds are mourning the loss of the chicks that were snatched away from them. Imagine the constant stress the parents must feel, knowing their babies will always be stolen, every single time. Please think of the big picture when you buy a baby bird--and then, so many are abandoned as adults, anyway.
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| armand |
| | 12/09/06 at 12:09 PM | Reply with quote | #5 |
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there are good pet shops and bad pet shops ,i dont think you should make such a blanketed statement that all pet shops that carry live animals are bad maybe you had a bad experance i dont know people have to learn and be educated when buying a pet,what is your bird club doing promoting birds your in the same group as pet shops are in people living in glass houses shouldnt throw stones,your posting makes your (BIRD CLUB) look bad and there are a lot of good pet shops out there |
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| Anon |
| | 12/09/06 at 09:40 PM | Reply with quote | #6 |
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armand, it's not a matter of a good clean shop. I had one too. It's a mattter of most customers being goofs and the tremendous overpopulation of companion animals suffering from neglect, abuse and being homeless and euthanized. Yes there are good caretakers but given a vote, I'd vote for No animals being kept, since the bad overshadows the good, imho. Yes most people disagree but that's my feeling.
I speak from experience of my many customers over a decade who thought it wasnt a bit wierd to trade in an animal that better matched the new wallpaper or couch. Even when I threatened to use them for snake food. Or idiots who just left their boarding birds in my store after vacation and refused to pick them up.
This site is not about collecting birds for pets. Many posters are NOT members of the NYCBC and that may be what you are seeing that seems contrary to the views held here. Probably like you, just wandered in off the internet.
It's the big picture.
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| Terry |
| | 12/25/06 at 11:42 AM | Reply with quote | #7 |
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| The American Anti-Slavery Group is a U.S.-based non-profit dedicated to the abolition of modern day slavery. While many believe that the slave trade ended some time ago, there are still over 27 million people held in bondage today. In addition to chattel and sex slaves throughout Africa and parts of Asia, there are cases of human trafficking documented in affluent neighborhoods in the United States. Slavery isn't history. It's a modern human rights crisis that has only begun to be addressed. I suggest you learn more about this grave injustice and what can be done about it. |
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