DC,  you don't have to explain yourself to the group let alone to  the anti
clipping zelots. Your birds are your birds, YOU do what YOU have to do to
give your birds an enviornment YOU feel is safe after all YOU have to live
with yourself and your birds.
AS some on this group says "if its right for you the its right forr you."

Dave
"Digital_Cowboy"  wrote in message
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> This is an open letter to all of you out there who seem to think that ANY
> house can be made to be "bird safe."  The house that I am
living in with
> my Grandmother is at least 100 yrs old.  The interior walls are made out
> of plaster and lathe construction.  When the house was made it was a
> COMMON practice to put arsenic into the plaster.  The theory is/was that
> rats and mice coming into the home would chew on the wall, ingesting the
> plaster and arsenic.  They would then crawl away and die somewhere.
>
> Now then given that parrots ARE chewers, IF a parrot is allowed "free"
> range in such a house they would end up chewing the plaster on the wall,
> ingesting some of it, and along with the plaster end up ingesting the
> arsenic.  Which would result in the birds either getting sick (depending
> upon how much was ingested) or dieing.
>
> So please tell me given that type of construction short of tearing out
> EVERY wall and ceiling, and basically "rebuilding" the
entire interior of
> the house how is a person suppose to make such a house "bird safe?"
>
> For a multi-floored home with a total of 8 rooms, that is/would be a long
> and expensive proposition, would it not?  As well as still presenting a
> health hazard to any birds that might be in the house at the time.  Cause
> one would have to find some place to put the birds during the
> reconstruction.  Which could be something as simple as just placing the
> birds outside while the work is being done or "boarding"
them somewhere.
>
> I would have to say that given a house that is so constructed that until
> such a time as one could "correct" the "defect(s)"
in the home that the
> BEST course of action to take WOULD be to clip their birds wings.  So that
> while the bird(s) are out of their cage they cannot fly up onto the window
> or door molding and chew on either the wall(s) or the ceiling(s).
>
> Now let the "flames" and "attacks" that I am just
being "lazy" or "cheap"
> commence, as I fully expect that you "anti-wing clippers"
will lunch some
> form of "attack" on me.  As well as continuing to call me a bird
> "mutilator" because I choose to (oh no) clip my birds wings.
>
> Wing clipping does NOT equal mutilation, as it is JUST like a hair cut in
> that the clipped wings can and DO grow back.  IF they didn't then it would
> not be necessary to re-clip after each molt, now would it?
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