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[Foamy]

No not that kind of bird. Actual birds with wings and feathers.

I got my younger daughter a pair of budgies a little over a year ago cause she wanted them and I have to say I too have fallen in love with the little guys.
They're just so sweet and adorable. I think they make a really good pet for children.
They're relatively easy to take care of and sleep through the night. They can be a little noisey in the morning though when they wake up.
We don't clip ours and leave the cage open for a bit each day so they can fly around and stretch their wings.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Foamy]

Ravens are bad ass.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

my father in law has one. everyone hates it. it laughs like my mother in law and yells my wifes name.

love watching birds though in nature

 

[haxan7]

I had 2 of them in the house growing up from about age 7.

If I watch a home video and hear them squawking, I get immediate PTSD. Fucking birds.

 

[Foamy]

I had 2 of them in the house growing up from about age 7.

If I watch a home video and hear them squawking, I get immediate PTSD. Fucking birds.

What LOL? You didnt like them?

 

[haxan7]

What LOL? You didnt like them?

They never stopped squawking and I'm pretty sure it made me insane. I'm super sensitive to certain types of noise in my environment.

a cockatiel and a finch

My mom loves them tho. She still keeps a little captive parakeet.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Does Birdo have pet birds?

 

[Foamy]

I could see birds being annoying if you lived in a small apartment where you could hear them at all times. For multi level houses its not really a thing.

 

[Nymphae]

Always seemed cruel to me to keep a flying animal cooped up in a house or apartment. A friend of mine had one when we were kids and it just sat in one of those classic old style bell shaped bird cages all day, it would occasionally just freak out and make a lot of noise but otherwise might as well have been a statue. Probably went insane, imagine that life.

 

[Ememee]

My mom’s had birds of all kinds all her life. Multiple Parrots, parakeets, African greys, white cockatoos, etc.

Not the biggest fan to be honest. The best/worst aspect comes down to the noise they make.

 

[Stouffers]

I used to have a cockortwo

 

[rykomatsu]

I have barn swallows that come back to their nest every year in the spring in the corner of my porch soffit...does that count?

The couple gave birth to 4 chicks this year successfully. Last year i think it was 3 & 3 (had 2 sets) and prior year was 2 or 3 as well...

 

[haxan7]

I used to have a cockortwo

 

[DESTROYA]

Do chickens count?

 

[Dark Star]

I spent at least a decade of my childhood with 2 parakeets in my house, both exactly the same color. We named the blue one "Sky" and the green one "Rocky" ... We'd let them fly around the garage for hours almost every day. Getting them back in their cage was always a difficult task lol. They are very messy and noisy pets, but I loved having them in the house. They died after so many years, one got a tumor, the other was just old. Burying them in the backyard was sad.

 

[TindalosPup]

I had a traumatized cockatiel named Street

He was rescued after being spotted literally walking in the middle of a busy city street bleeding by one of my brother's old co workers. The original owner botched clipping his wings and cut half of his right wing off, the rescuer believed the bird went into shock and they tossed it in the trash thinking it was dead

He was really noisey and skiddish, but I loved the little bugger, he'd calm right down if you played the Beatles and try to whistle along. We gave him up because we had to move into an apartment that didn't allow birds and he became a little girl's first pet

We have lots of chickens now, each named after a different chicken based dish

 

[JORMBO]

My parents had two African Grey parrots for a few years. They had to give them up for adoption because they wanted constant attention and would make tons of noise all the time if they could not get it.

My sister had parakeets when we were kids and they were always really chill.

 

[JordanN]

No pets, but I live really close to a habitat that have a lot of Canadian Geeses and ducks. It's impossible not to miss them going through and from work.

Sometimes they also land on my roof.

 

[Stouffers]

You think you’re better than me, shit-tits?

 

[Dai Kaiju]

I had a sun conure when I was a teenager. Worst pet i,ve ever had in my life and i've had quite a few.

 

[GobbledeeGoo]

She prefers to be referred to as my Wife, thank you very much OP.

 

[Patrick S.]

I used to breed cockateels as a hobby. They're awesome, social, intelligent and sweet. One day I realized it's shitty that such beautiful creatures have to spend their lives locked away in a cage, depending on a human to survive, and I got really really sad and regretful about it. Gave them away and will never own a bird again.

 

[JordanN]

I used to breed cockateels as a hobby. They're awesome, social, intelligent and sweet. One day I realized it's shitty that such beautiful creatures have to spend their lives locked away in a cage, depending on a human to survive, and I got really really sad and regretful about it. Gave them away and will never own a bird again.

I use to own a lot of pets but one of my biggest regrets was that their cages were too small. Although I did have some animals that lived a really long life, I could never imagine buying those tiny goldfish bowls or betta aquariums ever again.

 

[synchronicity]

I love birds. I have a budgie right now, but I used to have an African Grey years ago. That bird was brilliant - smarter than many people I know.

I used to breed cockateels as a hobby. They're awesome, social, intelligent and sweet. One day I realized it's shitty that such beautiful creatures have to spend their lives locked away in a cage, depending on a human to survive, and I got really really sad and regretful about it. Gave them away and will never own a bird again.

Yes, I have felt the same way. However, and I know this is hypocritical since I currently have a bird, I wanted to give a bird as much freedom as I could. So I picked up a pet-shop parakeet and it stays in my sun room with its cage doors open all day long. It comes and goes as it pleases. It sits on window sills chirping happily all day long. I had mixed emotions because by purchasing a pet bird from a store, I know that I am perpetuating unnatural and less than ideal conditions for these animals, but I wanted to give one the best home it was likely to have, since many pet birds do just sit locked in cages all the time as you mentioned.

 

[Patrick S.]

I use to own a lot of pets but one of my biggest regrets was that their cages were too small. Although I did have some animals that lived a really long life, I could never imagine buying those tiny goldfish bowls or betta aquariums ever again.

My teels were kept in a huge aviary I built with my father, so they could always fly around and weren't kept in a tiny cage.