Honestly i always found it cruel to own a bird as a pet. Birds are meant to fly. All bird owners just either keep their birds in a cage or chained up all the time. They never get to fly their whole lives, or they’d fly away. Imagine being born with your upper limbs with the purpose of flying and never doing it because someone needs a pet bird.
I actually knew someone who died of that parrot disease. Psittacosis? He caught it off a budgie.
Here it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosis
Holy moly, and I was thinking about buying a parrot to my daughter …
There’s a better reason not to do that. They can live over 70 years.
Honestly i always found it cruel to own a bird as a pet. Birds are meant to fly. All bird owners just either keep their birds in a cage or chained up all the time. They never get to fly their whole lives, or they’d fly away. Imagine being born with your upper limbs with the purpose of flying and never doing it because someone needs a pet bird.