IndianRingNeck.com

Been stewing on this one for a week. Last week at the local bird shop I met a gorgeous 1yo sun conure. Owners had sold it back as it made too much noise. (Well duh, it's a sunny) Here is my peeve. This was the first bird they'd ever owned. Why do people take on these birds without checking what they're doing or at least trying a budgie or something smaller and less costly first. I wanted marine fish, found a great aquarium place that refused to sell them until I'd had tropical for a year. I've done that, but i'm now over the marine fish. Mikeala, I know what u mean with $$ with them. My point is the people here obviously love their birds because research brought them to this site. Am I just being picky?

Sadly, that can work both ways. I've known many people who started out with smaller birds ... and who give them up when they finally get the bird of their dreams.

Whats needed is education. No bird should be sold or adopted to anyone without some serious heavy duty education. In the case of a sun conure people must be made aware of their noise, but a lot of places downplay it instead.

And, commitment. Think about it, you said the bird was 10 years old. So, they lived with that noise for 10 years (or so) and then couldn't take it anymore? Thats a lack of commitment on their part.



Athena

indie is my first bird never owned a budgie before.some people see how someone elses bird is and expect to have the same straight away.its the same with all animals especially dogs.

The conure was only one year old. They couldn't deal with the noise after a whole year. How's that for commitment!!

I could not agree more. I had no idea what I was getting into when I bought Baby. Had I not been a hard headed person and a loyal person desperate for my pets love, I would have thrown her out the door.

She was so violently mean, even as a chick. While I would be trying to feed her she would be violently biting. It was just not good.

Very vicous and it hurt my feelings very much. Jen can relate, Im sure. But I wanted to be her friend soooo bad. It was a great challenge and I love those.

I learned alot via trial and error, then I found this godsend. Without this board she would probably be nowhere near where she is now... a happy, well-adjusted, well-fed, precious, hard-headed, 120 plus word/phrase vocabulary Baby.

I certainly wouldnt be half the parront that I am, thats for sure.

I saw a beautiful animal and I bought it. Never even thought of owning a bird. Now, I cant imagine life without my Baby (I love the others too but Baby IS my Baby... I know, unhealthy.)

On the otherhand... had I known, I would have never considered this breed. What a loss.

Grrr....it makes me so angry to think about this. I ended up with so many tiels and budgies from people who got a new bird and didn't want the old one! I made sure that any babies I bred were given to good homes that were going to make commitments and never give them up. If they ever had to get rid of the bird I told them to contact me first I would take it back. Not one of those tiels has ever been back to me thankfully!

Education is what it the key to birds. Geeze...that's why I can't get a sunny just yet...too loud for apartments. Prinny on the other hand is perfect. One of these days when I own my own home I am going to own the birds I have wanted...

Dani and Prinny

the only reasearch i done was what not to feed after i had put down a deposit for indie.but im not the type of person to give up a pet just because its doing whats in its nature to do.if i had asked around im sure people would have talked me out of getting a indian ringneck.

I am even going to start on this one.

This isn't isolated to birds, to dogs, to cats, it extends to children aswell. You can't blame just one thing, its a whole breakdown of society thats at fault. Lack of purpose of life. Selfishness and self gratification, I don't have to, I don't want to, this is MY life, instead of being a real human, and using the inteligence we have been given, people cop out and throw excuse in place.

STOP! ok I said I wouldn't start, thats enough or I will surely flood this post.