Today, we had a speaker come talk to the clients (My work can sometime seems like a daily school assembly). Its human said that it could say 300 words but most of all, it said "four." It was kind of funny because the human was trying to get it to count, sing and whatever but it mainly just said, "four." What wasn't funny was what the human said.I love pets. In my hometown, I could tell people what the names of the dogs were in town before I could tell them the names of the owners. I've had at least one pet my entire life. However, that has been dogs and cats. Birds, fish and rodents are another story. They're cute sometimes but I really question their quality of life.
Take our fine feathered friend for example. This bird's wings were clipped, probably at an early age. Its humans decided that it didn't need to perform the most natural action for a bird because they wanted to keep it. Dean and the cats have free roam of the house and the yards. Growing up, our dog and cats were completely independent outside. That's always been the difference between pets as property and pets as companions to me. I don't understand keeping a rodent in a glass cage with minimal items to entertain it or to give a fish the same cubic feet of water to live in it's whole life.
It's just not natural.
2 comments:
Most people mean they trim the feathers when they say "clipped their wings". I don't think it's possible or would even work to cut their arms.
They can still fly with trimmed feathers but not as far or high because it takes more work.
Someone asked the lady about the bird flying and she said that it would just tumble if it tried.
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