It’s interesting that you should say that. Really, are all birds meant to fly? What about an ostrich, an emu, a penguin? I have an African Grey Parrot. While she spends some time in her cage, the better part of the day she is out of the cage and wants nothing more than to hang out with me. Parrots are the only creatures besides humans that can use words to express their desires. Not all just mimic, mine knows that if she wants a nut she asks for it. She also understands that when she say’s "come mere" she will get me to go to her. I have often thought that God intentionally made parrot for our enjoyment. Why else would they have the ability to speak or mimic our language? Having that ability would not benefit them in the wild but is solely for our enjoyment. So, that said, we keep caged birds because they were created to entertain us, much like the dog that your neighbor may have chained to his dog house. The cage is merely a safety factor.
For their own protection. If you are keeping a bird in your house there are many dangers so it’s cage is a form of protection. Also, a birds cage should be it’s kingdom. Somewhere that it feels safe, can feed, play in and call it’s own space.
If you bird has a large cage that can be it’s home and can come out and be with its human flock it will be very happy.
In the wild, at night, all birds seek roosts, whether in thick trees or bushes, or in holes in trees or cracks in rock. This enables them to feel secure and keep warm.
If a bird does not have a personal place, with or without other birds, to spend at least the night, the bird suffers psychologically. It is an instinctual need to roost at night.
Basically, then, the cage becomes their "house".
People keep birds because they’re lovable, intelligent, beautiful companions; also if a bird has been injured and can no longer live in the wild. People keep animals — we’ve been doing this for ten thousand years. The right or wrong comes, IMHO, in the HOW, not in the WHETHER, to keep them.
Respect. Love. Patience. Gentleness. Appreciation. Not torture, cruelty, power, or appetite. A quote: animals are our brothers, not our slaves. But we shouldn’t cut ourselves entirely off from them or their lives. If we cut ourselves out of nature in attempt to preserve it, ultimately we will become so alienated from it that — guess what??? We start seeing it as something to exploit. Our desire to preserve nature by taking ourselves out of interaction with it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby we destroy nature because we don’t have any real feeling for it.
only abusive bird owners keep a bird in a cage all the time. my bird likes flying around the room. every day i come home from work i let her out, she makes a few circles in the air and more often than not lands on my shoulder and stickes her head into my cheek to beg me to pet her neck.
i put her in a cage when i’m away so she doesn’t chew on wired and poison herself, and i put her in there when i cook so she doesn’t fly over the gas flame and burn up.
most people keep birds in *open* cages but they do clip the bird’s wings’ feathers so their birds end up climbing around more than flying.
all such birds live twice as long as they do in nature, and they are happy birds too, and we know they are happy because they express their happiness by grinding their beaks and other happiness behaviors that sad, abused birds don’t do.
so yes, it is cruel to keep a bird in a cage, and no, most bird owners do not keep their birds in a cage all the time, and most of these birds are happy and live healtheir and longer than they do in the wild.
So they are kept safe. And parrots in particular like having a home. It feels safe and cozy to them. They are not real big on just flying from one place to another. They just fly to get to food and that’s about it.
My bird loves his cage. The door is open unless there is a reason such as when the carpenters came to replace windows. Its his. This morning i moved him cage and all to the living room where he’s keeping an eye on me. He appears to enjoy the excursion.
I’m home most of the time, so my bird, and the birds that I have had before, have had an open door policy. I just leave their door open and they come and go as they please. But be very careful if you do this, they will follow you outside, if you aren’t careful.
It’s interesting that you should say that. Really, are all birds meant to fly? What about an ostrich, an emu, a penguin? I have an African Grey Parrot. While she spends some time in her cage, the better part of the day she is out of the cage and wants nothing more than to hang out with me. Parrots are the only creatures besides humans that can use words to express their desires. Not all just mimic, mine knows that if she wants a nut she asks for it. She also understands that when she say’s "come mere" she will get me to go to her. I have often thought that God intentionally made parrot for our enjoyment. Why else would they have the ability to speak or mimic our language? Having that ability would not benefit them in the wild but is solely for our enjoyment. So, that said, we keep caged birds because they were created to entertain us, much like the dog that your neighbor may have chained to his dog house. The cage is merely a safety factor.
So they can’t get out.
so they can’t fly away
or then u wouldve wasted ur money
they can be happy in a cage
and if you hand feed them
they will learn that you are their friend and they will like you
and come out of the cage and climb on your shoulder and walk around and play with you
my dad had one like that
well if you want to get right to the point!
I could see about huge animals in small zoo’s
but as far as a bird,reptile,dogs,cats is because we have the choice and only if you choose to.
For their own protection. If you are keeping a bird in your house there are many dangers so it’s cage is a form of protection. Also, a birds cage should be it’s kingdom. Somewhere that it feels safe, can feed, play in and call it’s own space.
If you bird has a large cage that can be it’s home and can come out and be with its human flock it will be very happy.
In the wild, at night, all birds seek roosts, whether in thick trees or bushes, or in holes in trees or cracks in rock. This enables them to feel secure and keep warm.
If a bird does not have a personal place, with or without other birds, to spend at least the night, the bird suffers psychologically. It is an instinctual need to roost at night.
Basically, then, the cage becomes their "house".
People keep birds because they’re lovable, intelligent, beautiful companions; also if a bird has been injured and can no longer live in the wild. People keep animals — we’ve been doing this for ten thousand years. The right or wrong comes, IMHO, in the HOW, not in the WHETHER, to keep them.
Respect. Love. Patience. Gentleness. Appreciation. Not torture, cruelty, power, or appetite. A quote: animals are our brothers, not our slaves. But we shouldn’t cut ourselves entirely off from them or their lives. If we cut ourselves out of nature in attempt to preserve it, ultimately we will become so alienated from it that — guess what??? We start seeing it as something to exploit. Our desire to preserve nature by taking ourselves out of interaction with it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby we destroy nature because we don’t have any real feeling for it.
only abusive bird owners keep a bird in a cage all the time. my bird likes flying around the room. every day i come home from work i let her out, she makes a few circles in the air and more often than not lands on my shoulder and stickes her head into my cheek to beg me to pet her neck.
i put her in a cage when i’m away so she doesn’t chew on wired and poison herself, and i put her in there when i cook so she doesn’t fly over the gas flame and burn up.
most people keep birds in *open* cages but they do clip the bird’s wings’ feathers so their birds end up climbing around more than flying.
all such birds live twice as long as they do in nature, and they are happy birds too, and we know they are happy because they express their happiness by grinding their beaks and other happiness behaviors that sad, abused birds don’t do.
so yes, it is cruel to keep a bird in a cage, and no, most bird owners do not keep their birds in a cage all the time, and most of these birds are happy and live healtheir and longer than they do in the wild.
So they are kept safe. And parrots in particular like having a home. It feels safe and cozy to them. They are not real big on just flying from one place to another. They just fly to get to food and that’s about it.
Try clipping the wings.
My bird loves his cage. The door is open unless there is a reason such as when the carpenters came to replace windows. Its his. This morning i moved him cage and all to the living room where he’s keeping an eye on me. He appears to enjoy the excursion.
I’m home most of the time, so my bird, and the birds that I have had before, have had an open door policy. I just leave their door open and they come and go as they please. But be very careful if you do this, they will follow you outside, if you aren’t careful.