it's booker the baby bird!!!

Smol but Mighty.

The thing with accidents, is that you don’t expect them. You are so sure nothing it’s going to happen, and when it does it’s heartbreaking.

Cat’s saliva has gram negative bacteria that is extremely dangerous for birds, this bacteria can be found both in their mouth and their claws, all it takes is a playful Pat or a bad day when your cat is upset, all it takes is a scratch and you lose your bird forever.

Why would you risk your pet’s life?

1. Chew toy

2. Jungle gym

YOU GUYS I FINALLY DID IT, I FINALLY GOT A VIDEO OF THIS BIG DUMB DOOFUS PRETENDING THAT HE IS ALSO EATING AN ALMOND BECAUSE HIS LADY LOVE HAS ONE AND HE DOESNT WANT TO BE LEFT OUT

Honestly when I see hawks doing stupid stuff 9/10 times its a harris hawk—this seriously just looks like one of those stupid hawks time. They are one of the only social raptors, so this leads to some funny things, like

Stacking

The harris hawk argument for stacking is “your back is less Pokey than a cactus so imma use it”

Not even falconers are safe…

They even hold hands

Please, what are you doing harris hawks, learn how to hawk

Therapy chickens also exist!

I was just shitposting when I posted this and hadn’t really, like, looked into it lol. I found out right after that therapy birds already exist.

But when I get to a place where I can breed chickens (fighting right now to get laying hens legal in my town and, with the opposition to that, its not likely they’ll allow roosters if we do win) I’d really really like to breed Silkies as companion animals with the ‘training’ you mentioned. It would be nice to see ESAs become a legitimate helper animal…thing (xD) but having a set of required training points would be necessary. Like, my cat is an ESA in that when I’m devolving into an anxiety attack or have a migraine or something he’s more likely than not to cuddle and try to help me because he understands ‘mama feels bad’ but I could never feel right registering him as an official ESA because he’s a total bastard to literally everyone but me and when I do take him out for any reason (usually the vet) he causes me MORE anxiety.

Animals being raised and trained to be calm in high key situations, to disregard stimuli, to focus on their person above everything else, ect. Is it possible to reliably breed these things into chickens? I’m not sure, but Silkies are already a calm and sweet breed so it’d be on the right path. I’d like to try, though, because they’d be relatively less expensive to breed so more people could have access to them.

ESAs do not need to be "registered" nor do they have ANY public access rights. You cannot legally bring an ESA into a space that does not allow pets. They only need a Dr's note, and that only grants them housing rights (and airplane rights... for now.)

Service animals need EXTENSIVE training, and the combination of training for public access as well as task training to mitigate the handler's disability is what makes it a service animal. (I am a service dog handler.) Service animals in the USA can be either dogs or miniature horses because some people have dog allergies and miniature horses are better for heavy mobility needs than most dogs. There are a few cats out there of exceptional temperament that, combined with proper socialization and training, vox make wonderful service animals for disabled people, and I think that they should be legally allowed as long as they meet rigorous standards for behavior as dogs and horses already do.

Therapy chickens also exist!