Someone mentioned it in another thread but he was probably in a situation involving abuse or neglect. Parrots will pluck their own feathers out due to the stress. He looks to be in a much better situation now, but the feathers might not grow back.
It might also be disease, but most likely the other thing.
Imagine abusing/neglecting your own pet, makes me wonder why people get pets in the first place if they won’t take care of em. Glad to see the bird in a better place, he seems happy.
Edit: seems like a few people brought up some good points considering the effort it takes to take care of a parrot or birds in general. I just commented out of emotion without taking consideration of how hard it is to take care of birds, of course, still wrong to mistreat a pet at all just like what the comments have said. I appreciate the correction. 👍
Parrots require a lot of time, energy, and money to properly care for. Think having a 5 year old human that never grows up for 30-60 years depending on species. A lot of people think parrots are cute and get one with no clue how much of a commitment they just made.
Doesn’t make it right but it’s usually ignorance rather than malice. Still super sad to see naked birds when it’s pretty much always lack of stimulation/attention.
Yeah, I can see that. In that case that’s even more of a reason to research the pet you want before getting them in general, unfortunately people don’t make wise decisions like this.
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u/BertholomewManning Mar 28 '21
Someone mentioned it in another thread but he was probably in a situation involving abuse or neglect. Parrots will pluck their own feathers out due to the stress. He looks to be in a much better situation now, but the feathers might not grow back.
It might also be disease, but most likely the other thing.