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My advice is to never get birds, it is very different from other types of pets. I love having them, but it honestly requires a certain level of insanity. Which means keeping them is absolutely not for most people
I don't think I'll get another pet that requires a cage after hamsters! (My rabbits were raised like cats, litter trained and no cage)
Perhaps "cage" was the wrong word - I meant pets I have to corral to a specific location....but I would prevent my cat from going outside so maybe that's not it either lol
So I guess it's just back to my original point: I find the space and care accomodations required for birds to be much too inconvenient
Oh that is an entirely valid point! And again, I definitely would not recommend birds to anyone, it's that type of thing where you kinda need to stumble into by yourself. It's just, like with rabbits, people still have misconceptions about keeping them in cages, and I'm always ready to correct facts about that... Since some people still get even those tiny round cages and put birds in them, it's truly awful
That's my friend's parents. They get little budgies and keep them in the worst cages which means they only get the worst parts of pet ownership
Heartbreaking! Poor birds :(