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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I love birds, but I wonder about the humanness of making the live in a cage. Personally flying seems like it would be so much fun, and then to have to live in a cage with either clipped wings like some of the big birds or just never be allowed out of the cage like some of the small birds, doesn't seem like a great life. I haven't researched this at all, it's just my own opinion and I'm sure some pet birds have a good life, but in Victorian times, they would build a special aviaries where they kept plants and the birds could fly all over it. This seems very humane to me. My sister-in-law just lets her birds fly all over her house and she has the poop to prove it! Anyway, good luck with your decision. |
I'm so on board with you on this. Birds should be free to fly as they are made and have evolved to do better than any other living thing, having developed wings for just one thing - to fly high in the sky - "free as a bird". Even the tiniest birds have been tracked up to 1700 miles and migrate whenever nature calls. I'm totally fascinated by birds and would enjoy having one but the thought of keeping one captive in a tiny cage or even some 30 foot X 60 foot aviary in my house, a little being destined to fly the great skies when his wild instincts direct him, seems so cruel - seems to rob him of his reason for living - to get to FLY freely above us all. I'm the same way about fish tanks - particularly those slim, tall ones where the fish can barely swim forward but a few inches enough to push water through his gills - fish intended by nature to swim free and far in lakes, streams and oceans for miles and miles.
When I've been housebound for a few days after surgery, confined to one room or to bed for say 10 days, the freedom to get up and out, go shopping or to just drive, visit a friend and go out to lunch, free to roam where I'd like, is ever the sweeter once I'm released to resume normal activities. Imagine being housebound to one bed, one room, for your entire life and I imagine that's what a caged bird or tanked fish probably feels like. Of course if you were born in one room and shortly moved to another room to live your whole life, maybe you wouldn't miss all the things life otherwise has to offer and you'd be happy in your room.