This is actually a sad, but all too typical, story. Parrots are very social and need to have a flock, but now they’ve been separated because stupid, selfish people taught them to curse. They don’t even know what they’re doing wrong, but they get punished.
My wife and I love parrots and have 12 rescued birds (including three cockatoos) in our home and support several parrot rescues. People get parrots because they think they’re pretty or they talk, and teach them to curse. But they’re highly intelligent and social, they require a ton of attention, and some can live up to 80 years. They inevitably have to find new homes, and if they curse, many people won’t take them. They end up stuck in shelters forever, or worse, being shoved into back rooms, closets and basements, being abused and punished for what humans taught them. This is like abusing a four-year-old child, and I think deserves the same punishment.
I’ve seen far too many heartbreaking cases of neglect and abuse of birds who had broken wings from being hit or had plucked all their feathers out from stress because of abuse or neglect. Teaching them to curse is more likely to doom them to a life like that. My message to people who think it’s funny to do that is “STOP IT, you f***ing morons!”
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