Behaviors and Diseases found in Caged Parrots

Behaviors and Diseases found in Caged Parrots

What is psittacosis?

Psittacosis is an infectious disease in humans that has mild, non-specific flu-like symptoms. Psittacosis refers to any infection or disease caused by Chlamydia psittaci, one of several microorganisms in the genus Chlamydia. This disease can be transmitted from infected birds to humans. Parrot disease, ornithosis, and chlamydiosis are other names for psittacosis.

Here's a site on feather Plucking.
Hmmmm, a caged bird behavior..
http://www.parrotpassionsuk.com/Diseases/featherplucking.htm

When you teach us to talk, you teach us how to think like you. This type of thinking is unnatural and can only lead to insanity. It makes us want to leave our bodies. So we mutilate ourselves, we shred our feathers because we do not need them in your world. They become a reminder of what we have lost, our freedom of flight. If we pluck them all out, it is easier for us to be among you because we look more like you who have lost all your fur because the unnatural environment you live in does not require you to have natural protection such as fur for your bodies. Why should we have feathers when you do not have fur? The result of your type of thinking has only yielded unnatural results: machines, crafted tools, and disunity amongst your own species.
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WELL SAID, so lets fight any law that might take the Parrot off the Americans PET LIST.
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Some of you say you have always believed that animals can think and this is true. Of course we can but it is not natural to think all the time as humans do. Thinking is a tool and tools have their uses and then they are stored away for the future. The brain is meant for handling the neurological demands of complex physical tasks, not for thinking. In thinking, the brain becomes separate from the mind and this is unnatural, not what Nature intended.

We animals use tools in various ways but our intelligence lies in that for the tools we find most critical to survival, our minds have made them become part of our biology. So for me, my beak is a very powerful tool. It can crack a brazil nut better than any man-made tool and without totally destroying the shell which will become a tool or shelter for some tiny brother of mine when I drop it on the forest floor.

My wings are tools I use and my brain feeds them with the proper information so I can use them to fly. I do not have to think about it and go to school for years to learn how to fly with steel wings. Instead, over the eons that I have lived as a cockatoo, my fellow birds and I have taken these tools and made them become part of us. We don't have to think about it at all except for when we are very young and our parents are teaching us the fine points of aviation. After that, we can fly with much more skill than any human pilot in any man made machine. My brothers and sisters Amazon Parrots can fly upside down, backwards and make sharp turns, my brother and sister Eagles can dive at 200 miles per hour, my brother and sister Hummingbirds can hover indefinitely in space. Which method of tool using is more 'intelligent' or efficient? Building them over and over out of metals which deteriorate and rust and require destructive forces to empower them and contribute nothing to ecology or to be born with them?

But don't make the mistake that I cannot or won't think as you do. I have been ripped from my world, from my roost where I cuddled with my parents and brought into your unnatural world of machines, a world devoid of the give and take of life, a world of just take, take, take. And I am surrounded by humans who think all the time about everything because they no longer know how to just receive.

In the wild, thinking as you do leaves us vulnerable to attack. There is a time and place for it, for problem solving and innovation. Humans have only just discovered we do this, but to do it safely, it must be hidden. Every wild animal keeps his or her mind clear of thoughts so they can receive the knowledge and guidance of the Universal Mind. When my wild brethren fly free over the gorges of Seram island, they fly in unity with the Universal Mind. If they were distracted with thinking of better to ways to dig a nest hole in a tree while they flew, hawks would come along and take them down because they were not present with the moment and so they would lose their lives.

But of course this does happen, predators do catch their prey. The most successful wild animals are those who learn to keep their thoughts and ideas tucked away, hidden from view and exercised only when threats have abated. But we do think. As we snuggle with our family units deep in our nest holes, we think about the common welfare of our kind, about the predators who stalk us and how to outwit them, about how to change our bodies in the eons to come to be even more successful.

So what about predators? Do they have the luxury of thinking whenever they please? Of course not. Every animal has another animal who preys upon it. Even the great Eagles have the great Cats who will catch them if they can. If anything, the greatest predators have the clearest and most crystalline of minds. One thing is clear, a long time ago when animals were choosing whether or not to consume the flesh of others to survive, the predators did not think much about this choice. They fell in love with their tools a little too much and this is their dark side as it is yours, the humans.

The Eagle's sight rivals no other, the Cougar's scent is unparalleled, the Wolf's hunting strategy is the model for all warfare. The spirit of these animals has suffered. The Wolf cries in remorse of his deeds, the Cougar and the Eagle must live alone for eternity. This is what happens when you let your tools rule you.

Mankind has so many tools, there is no hope for him until he relinquishes them all and returns to the Earth with a clear mind. Otherwise, he will destroy the Earth with his unnatural, disjointed thinking and tools of construction and destruction that only take, take, take and return nothing to the Earth.

What separates the great predators from Mankind is that they accept their isolation, their remorse and pay tribute to it. Only one Eagle can rule a mountain. Mankind must learn that there are not enough mountains for them all and since it is their nature to rule, they must not proliferate like rabbits unless they are willing to become like rabbits, prey.

Yet this has already happened, for you prey upon yourselves. Those with the most tools, and the most power, not necessarily the most education required to make those tools, will always be the greatest predator in the Universe. And perhaps these predators will prey upon the Universe itself causing ripples and tears in its fabric and its ultimate collapse back upon itself. That is the true omnipotent power of the tool, so who has used it more intelligently? Me or you?

So if I must live in a human's world among all the neurotic people around me and not be neurotic and not mutiliate myself, I must enjoy every day the highest pursuits that Mankind has to offer to stimulate my mind: great masterpieces of music, intellectual interchange, social and spiritual enrichment, complex challenging games, but most of all, I must receive the same respect and awe afforded the great minds from which sprang these pursuits.

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Parrot lovers fight HR669 for one reason, selfish phony rights and the freedom to own and abuse the Parrot.

BrokenWing