Enraged about the Pet Cruelty

[mona]

I had saved a bird breeder contact for my mom. He posted a video of birds some time back on whatsapp. The cage was full of birds and rabbits in separate cages. But, they didn't have space to even move. It was so painful to even look at. It was like the public transport full of people who can't even move. Imagine staying like that at home!

I texted him right away that it isn't the right way to keep birds and animals and it's cruel. He deleted the video from status. But, I couldn't move on. So, today's news feed showed up a pet trader arrested for wrong cage size and stuffing birds like that. I sent that news link to him. He argued with me for a while that he knows about the rule.. it has been just approved by the government this month.

I was so angry at him that I actually searched all the Indian acts for animal protection & pet shop rules, transportation rules, etc. I read all the Acts, which were formed way back in 1960.

So, I had a huge argument with him then. I sent him all the Act with exact name and sections. Once he realized that I know about the constitutional bills, acts and amendments passed, he was terrified then. I warned him that if I see another video, image or pets stuffed like that at his shop, I will report him too! He thought I am from some non profit organization & I didn't break his illusion. Still feeling so enraged!

The arguments he made were so irritating! "If we don't transport pets like that, we won't have profit margins!" 🙄🙄🤐 I mean, they have the pet trade/breeding business and they don't know about the legal acts of the country regarding that. I even got to know that there are laws for pet owners and pet training too. I am going to use these legal act details, with anyone who is misbehaving with pets (including the people who are using birds for instagram popularity- torturing and forcing their birds to learn tricks!)

I also need to find a proper space for my country where I can report such traders! And I really want to report this breeder turned trader.

Everyone's running after profits for any business I see. Well being and safety is completely ignored. I can't get that video off my mind!

I had a similar argument with another bird toy seller. I enquired about the tree wood used and they didn't respond back. So, I raised an amazon request to get those details. The seller responded back with a list of all non safe trees!!! When I said these trees are safe tree wood examples, they responded back saying those are imported tree woods, not available in our country. I sent him back the list of forests in India, where these tree woods are found. There are so many products being sold from the safe wood trees including furniture! I have visited those forest places and collected those tree woods! How are these people running a business, without any knowledge!!! I have posted the response politely on amazon review for the product, if it gets approved. Also, raised a complaint on amazon that I won't be buying any toy from amazon ever, since no one specifies the basic information required to buy toys! So many people are happily buying such toys, thinking it's from a safe wood tree.

Today had been a bad day. Tomorrow, I will be drafting a summary of Indian Animal cruelty prevention act, pet shop rules and pet owner rules for quick reference and share it locally on a public forum within my country!

[mona]

Sorry for such a long post! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[Morgan]

Wow go you mona! You are definitely a powerful budgie-rights (and pet bird rights) advocate! This was actually very inspiring to read because you are doing so much to inform the public and organizations like Amazon about what needs to change! Thank you, and the budgies and birdies thank you too!

[mona]

Thank you Morgan. I am not sure about other countries, but mine doesn't have people with basic knowledge about keeping pet birds and its so disturbing to see them like that. My mom's neighbor bought a couple of budgies, coz my mom had budgies too. But they left the bird in a cage on a tree in their front yard.. as a decoration I assume. With a climate as we have here, esp the summers and monsoon, it's not possible for them to survive.. every one of them died eventually. Our arguments had no effect on them.. we anyways don't like them.. they are very competitive with us.. we get a thing they would get it too.. Seriously insane people.. but getting pets as competition. We couldn't go inside their yard, but it was so pitiful looking at the budgies.. the chirping reducing slowly... it actually brings tears to my eyes thinking about them. Had I known the Legal Rules about pet owners too back then, it would have been so helpful.

So many people keep asking me, why don't you put them in the balcony. I tell them for a while, it's okay..but rest they need controlled environment.. i don't even feel the need to explain about how scared they would be with the predator birds flying all around, to listen to something like do they understand anything!🤦‍♀️

I did call Amazon again to provide an elaborate feedback on why I stopped referring to amazon in my country for any bird related products and instead, I am moving to other small startups who are transparent. Not sure, if they would be able to take action in near future.

I did start an instagram account solely for spreading awareness about birds among new pet owners and specifically muy country, but I found that there are such people all over. I found many people eager to learn more and I learn too.. but there are pathetic people too just using birds for their fame on Social media. It's a torture to watch them forcing the baby bird to step up or perform tricks.. There are many who have adopted /rescued birds and those experiences are so lovely. I came across a tiel owner.. one of the tiel is blind and one doesn't have all her toes. They are such beautiful birds and I hope in future I will be able to adopt such birds too..

[Morgan]

mona - It’s hard to even read about the budgies left in the front yard! That is incredibly frustrating! It’s such a shame these things still happen around the world (and probably in the US too), but I have to keep telling myself that we are slowly improving as people have better access to information and resources. I hope it happens quickly enough, but there’s no use in pessimism anyway.

Keep doing what you are doing! It’s wonderful to know that there are at least other resources available to you for your own buds now. That will keep improving too.

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Oct 28, 2020 18:26:23 GMT mona said:

I had saved a bird breeder contact for my mom. He posted a video of birds some time back on whatsapp. The cage was full of birds and rabbits in separate cages. But, they didn't have space to even move. It was so painful to even look at. It was like the public transport full of people who can't even move. Imagine staying like that at home!

I texted him right away that it isn't the right way to keep birds and animals and it's cruel. He deleted the video from status. But, I couldn't move on. So, today's news feed showed up a pet trader arrested for wrong cage size and stuffing birds like that. I sent that news link to him. He argued with me for a while that he knows about the rule.. it has been just approved by the government this month.

I was so angry at him that I actually searched all the Indian acts for animal protection & pet shop rules, transportation rules, etc. I read all the Acts, which were formed way back in 1960.

So, I had a huge argument with him then. I sent him all the Act with exact name and sections. Once he realized that I know about the constitutional bills, acts and amendments passed, he was terrified then. I warned him that if I see another video, image or pets stuffed like that at his shop, I will report him too! He thought I am from some non profit organization & I didn't break his illusion. Still feeling so enraged!

The arguments he made were so irritating! "If we don't transport pets like that, we won't have profit margins!" 🙄🙄🤐 I mean, they have the pet trade/breeding business and they don't know about the legal acts of the country regarding that. I even got to know that there are laws for pet owners and pet training too. I am going to use these legal act details, with anyone who is misbehaving with pets (including the people who are using birds for instagram popularity- torturing and forcing their birds to learn tricks!)

I also need to find a proper space for my country where I can report such traders! And I really want to report this breeder turned trader.

Everyone's running after profits for any business I see. Well being and safety is completely ignored. I can't get that video off my mind!

I had a similar argument with another bird toy seller. I enquired about the tree wood used and they didn't respond back. So, I raised an amazon request to get those details. The seller responded back with a list of all non safe trees!!! When I said these trees are safe tree wood examples, they responded back saying those are imported tree woods, not available in our country. I sent him back the list of forests in India, where these tree woods are found. There are so many products being sold from the safe wood trees including furniture! I have visited those forest places and collected those tree woods! How are these people running a business, without any knowledge!!! I have posted the response politely on amazon review for the product, if it gets approved. Also, raised a complaint on amazon that I won't be buying any toy from amazon ever, since no one specifies the basic information required to buy toys! So many people are happily buying such toys, thinking it's from a safe wood tree.

Today had been a bad day. Tomorrow, I will be drafting a summary of Indian Animal cruelty prevention act, pet shop rules and pet owner rules for quick reference and share it locally on a public forum within my country!

This is so bad!! I agree, should be stopped.