Chris Roedocker@1:213/742 ... 20.05.97 ... "gotta rant for a minute"
Hi Chris!
I have read the mail of Kathy with a sort of inner smile. OF COURSE she  
was ennoyed, and the told situation with the parrot was not the best.
But what you wrote is also worth of having a critical look on:
> do-nots I have ever heard: giving choclate,
is wrong, I agree
> leg chain,
o - may be possible! (in special cases)
>cold wheather.
how cold? is the question. Some Parrots live in nature in cold habitats.
> I will take a bird out if 1) it's cliped
:-( That's bad, too, my dear! IMHO at least as bad as leg bands.
(A legbanded bird can be kept at other times (when not on a walk with the  
owner) free in an aviary, able to fly -  a clipped one can't fly - and  
flying is what birds want to do.)
>2)dosn't scare
correct.
> 3)not crowded
okay.
>4)good weather.
What do you meanw with "good"? Hot sun is e. g. not regularly "good  
weather" for parrots, esp. for those from the rain forest, which is a dark  
and shady place. Those parrots dislike direct sun beams on their body (for  
longer time). I have seen many parrot keepers, who did not know this and  
put their caged bird the whole afternoon into the burning sun. (Plus  
giving him a strong shower before that. Bird wet upto the skin. Later he  
was ill.) But it happened by chance, not because the keeper was a bad  
human.
To put it in a nutshell: Every parrot keeper believes to do its best for  
his birds - and no one should sentence about the other, no one should  
throw the first stone. We all make mistakes, especially I in my Englisch.
Pliece forgive me, ;-) and have a nice day!
cu  klaUS
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