Background is this that our family friends are out on vacation and we are bird sitting for them. Thyy left us with a cage and two love birds in them to take care of. It just saddens me to realize that these brids will only come out of this small cage once they die. How inhuman it is to cage a living being for life, just so you can have fun.
We used to have a fresh water fish aquarium at home, and even now, for some stupid reason, we have a small aquarium with a frog living in it. I have no idea where to release that frog or I would have already.
I think that having caged pets at home (birds, fish, hamsters and such ) is cruel.
It definitely is cruel. There is no second opinion to that. With the same token, people who chop off the feathers of their birds (parrots, parakeet, pigeon etc.) are also cruel and may be a degree above in cruelity.
***red in captivity and hence they do NOT know the meaning of confinement...so they say! i admit they have natural instincts to fly and look for food. we deny them their instincts and that's bad...those that are in confinement will surely die if you release them in the wild coz they do NOT know how to survive out in the there.
i've a budgie who is 15 years old [average age in the wild is around 8-9 years]...i guess she got the long life due to safety and good care that they receive in confinement. i wish i could release them in the wild so they could have the natural way to live their lives. :(***
***those that are in confinement will surely die if you release them in the wild coz they do NOT know how to survive out in the there.
I dont know man. We cant call our cages, a habitat. Its like you break my legs and then chain me to bed saying that it will be torture for me to walk so I am better of being chained.
do you guys also feel the need to release chicken and goats etc into the wild? coz they have it a lot worse than lovebirds and goldfish.
You cant deny the importance of food chain or as Disney calls it, circle of life.
there is a big difference between how farm animals were treated 50-60 years ago, to today's industrial animal-rearing ways of the west. i highly recommend watching "Food inc." to anyone who feels a caged pet has a hard life.
i highly recommend watching "Food inc." to anyone who feels a caged pet has a hard life.
I am not comparing animals raised for meat vs caged pets, but at least farmed animals are raised for a purpose. I even see a justification behind Zoos as Zoos sometimes help in preventing a specie from total extinction, but dont see any purpose behind caging birds at home.
Caging animals is wrong. queer brings up a good point - the food industry has to do a better job with the animals. Organic food they say is better in this regard.
Circuses are also cruel to animals. Zoos - cages for monkeys, birds etc - not good. The Alipore zoo used to have nice area for lions - vast area where they could roam - not too bad.
as far as chicken and goats are concerned even if you dont tie them with rope they will be back at their masters home at night....
many goat breeders in india just let their goats to roam around in city and by evening goats are back so there is lot difference between goats and cage birds....
Hattori san - I was joggig early mrning in Bombay over 2 years ago - saw a lorry full of chicken tightly packed - being delivered to the slaughter house. About 20 escaped - and were quickly captured. The truck was absolutely jam packed -
Also, I think queer was referring to the conditions in the west for animals being prepared for slaughter.
Hattori san - I was joggig early mrning in Bombay over 2 years ago - saw a lorry full of chicken tightly packed - being delivered to the slaughter house. About 20 escaped - and were quickly captured. The truck was absolutely jam packed -
Also, I think queer was referring to the conditions in the west for animals being prepared for slaughter.
yes i was not talking about poultry farm and goat farm but about private breeders from villages and small towns.....
As i had seen during my child hood....:D
Take that a step further, isn't eating animal flesh for our protein/food inhumane? Nonetheless it is very cruel to cage animals for our fun/entertainment.
I agree.. but it's a slippery slope..this thought process.
If you really think about it.. IMO just mentioning food chain doesnt change the fact that breeding animals to slaughter them for meat is cruel as well.
I wish I was a vegetarian. I wish one day I gather enough courage, patience and dedication to become a full time vegetarian.