[monday]

"If that was his animal, he should be allowed to do that.

To make this a felony is wrong."

It wasn't his animal. He offered to replace it however, that isn't going to cut it, or it wouldn't w/me. Parrots can live 80 to 100 years and can take years to train and bond with their owners. They are intelligent and have very distinctive and individual personalities.

What this guy did is worse than biting the head off of your favorite puppy. I wouldn't send him to prison for it, but he should probably have to pay the Parrots owner $20,000 to $30,000.

[ScottM1968]

Indeed it was not. But if it were, he should be able to do this, although it is rather horrendous in nature.

It should be a misdemeanor, though. I would have punched him if he'd done it to my puppy, but I wouldn't have pushed anything beyond restitution. The Old Testament describes how we are to handle such intrusions with livestock owned by others, and I am happy with that.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

I agree Parrots are pretty cool, I was uptown today getting lunch and the restaurant I was in had a parrot in a big glass cage there was no one else in the place so I walked over to the cage and took a look at him, he waddled over to where I was standing and put his head up to the glass and followed me all around the cage, I have got to say that sitting there with him for those few minutes did my heart good, I have a dog but I don't really get to spend any time with other animals. When I got home I told my wife we should take our little boy up there to see him and that he would get a kick out of seeing him. As regards to that drunken bum who bit off the guys pet parrot head, He needs to have the shit beaten out of him.