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Aviculture, Bird Mills & Retail Marketing
Our Position Over the past decade, "exotic pets" like parrots have become the rage even though they are challenging to keep in captivity. Large-scale "parrot mill" breeding operations, which supply popular warehouse pet store chains, are now producing thousands of potentially very long-lived parrot chicks each year to keep up with the demand for babies. It is next to impossible to properly socialize baby parrots under such "assembly line," high-production breeding conditions. To make matters worse, when these birds are sold through warehouse pet stores, buyers rarely receive quality products or solid advice from an inexperienced staff. In addition, the display of gentle, adorable, juvenile birds in these stores leads to many being purchased on impulse — and a parrot purchased on impulse without serious preparation and education rarely finds a lifelong home. Unfortunately, the public is still largely uneducated about the real challenges of keeping parrots in captivity. Many adolescent and adult parrots lose their homes when their "true colors" as wild animals start to shine. Thousands of mass-marketed birds are now displaced each year because neither these birds nor their buyers are properly prepared for success. The least fortunate birds are passed from home to home before dying from neglect or abuse, or they are euthanized. The lucky ones end up in adoption shelters or sanctuaries, which are now filling up fast! Never buy a mass-marketed bird from a pet store! These companies will not stop mass-producing and selling birds until it is no longer profitable to do so. Encourage PETCO, PETsMART, and other pet stores to provide the same adoption services for parrots that they do for dogs and cats instead of selling birds in their stores. Your consumer dollars are a powerful vote against parrot homelessness! Recommended Flyers
Recommended Articles Bird Mills & Retail MarketingAvian Welfare Issues: An Overview NEW - A Bird Mill Exposed - Part I NEW - A Bird Mill Exposed -Part II API’s Undercover Investigation: Little Shops of Sorrows Little Shops of Horrors: Pet Retail: An Ugly Reality Bird Mills & Retail Marketing Exotic Birds Sell as “Livestock” in Loxahatchee Behind the Bird Trade Parrots in Peril Factory farming’ approach takes toll Animals in the Retail
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Beautiful Wild: Birds in Retail How Much Is That Doggie in
The Window? Hypocrisy Reigns at PETCO
and PETsMART PETCO & PETsMART: Animal
Welfare Advocates — Or Antagonists? Breaking News: PETCO's Decision to End the Sale of Large Birds AWC's Response to PETA/PETCO Announcement What
is a Bad Petstore? Pet Store Watch AvicultureIs captive breeding for the pet trade really ‘responsible aviculture’? It's Time to Stop Breeding Birds by ParrotChronicles.com Aviculture and Avian Welfare: What is the Difference; Where Do They Stand? by Becky Margison, Avian Protection Society Feathers, Flight, and Parrot Keeping by Pamela Clark, Holistic Bird Newsletter Parrots and the Need for a New Aviculture by Greg Glendell Treating Parrots As Birds, Not Mammals by Greg Glendell Kaytee Preferred Birds and PETsMART by Sally Blanchard, Companion Parrot Quarterly The Poultrification of Parrots: Has the Bird Biz Shot Itself in the Foot? by Sally Blanchard, Companion Parrot Quarterly
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