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“Avatar’s not a kid’s show.” “Harry Potter’s not a kid’s series.” “This movie was never meant for kids.”

You guys realize it’s okay to love stuff made for kids…as adults…right? Like, you don’t have to act all pretentious about still loving it. You can just…still love it.

in the same vein, there are some people who get really disturbed at the idea that children’s media can contain really difficult concepts and that children can in fact understand and wrestle with these concepts. they’re shocked that children might be exposed to tough or scary questions about morality or human nature. they don’t believe kids can handle things like that, because they underestimate children. when i was growing up, i was already wrestling with just war theory without even knowing what that meant because i was an avid fan of the Animorphs books. those books deal explicitly with themes like war, slavery, environmentalism, free will/autonomy, and trauma. i didn’t have to know philosophical lingo to understand what i was reading and to think hard about the questions the books asked. they were in simpler language and vocabulary so that kids 8-12 could follow things, but that didn’t make the topics themselves any simpler.

If we’re talking parrots specifically, I’m one of those people.

Parrots just do not thrive in the standard captive environment, really the most we can hope to do is provide as much enrichment as we can to mimic their wild environments and natural behaviours to prevent countless stress behaviours. Parrots pluck, toe tap, break their beaks trying to chew cage bars, are frequently nutrient deficient, and often have weaker hearts, lungs and immune systems from being in captivity without the right environments to thrive.

Parrots aren’t a domesticated species and they simply do not thrive in our homes. We can not provide enough room for flight, enough birds for socialization with enough space for them to feel safe doing so, we can not provide the lifestyle these birds really need to be as healthy as they should be. We can do our best but at the end of the day when we’re breeding a species that more often than not suffers in our environments it doesn’t make sense to keep breeding them. If the closest we can get to optimum care is just trying to reduce constant stress then that animal isn’t thriving with us.

There’s plenty of birds that do thrive in our homes, pigeons, chickens, even finches and canaries are all extremely loving, trainable, and interactive birds that aren’t all that different than parrots. They can all be taught parlour tricks, can enjoy human interaction, many can sing sweet songs.

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+ thank you for that close up~