So I have an interesting story.
As you know, I've recently brought home english budgies, and I'm working on downsizing my current flock of the small guys and only keeping my Fallow pairs.
I had a very "interesting" family come by last night to have a look at my available birds. Lets just say that these people seemed to have come from the deep woods of redneck-ville, and lacked a lot of social skills. There was a mother, father, and their son who appeared to be around 30 years old. (He still lives with his parents)
The son wanted two birds, preferably a male and a female....which is my first red light indicator. I never sell a male and female together, especially to people who have already told me that this is the first time having birds.
Second red light indicator, he started asking me about food and what to feed them (Which is a good thing, i like when people as questions) but when he asked "Can they eat kibble?", I immediately decided that none of my birds are going to go home with these people.
And the third red light indicator which was the nail in the coffin: He told me that he didn't have a bird cage, but he did have a dog crate and he was going to wrap chicken wire around it so they couldn't get out.
Needless to say, I was trying to be polite and shoo them out of my house with no birds. I told him that before buying a bird, he needed to do a LOT more research, get a proper cage, food, toys, ect... Then the whole family went off on me. Calling me names, bashing my work, telling me my birds were ugly anyways, and they would spread the word of how much my aviary sucked.
LOL. Go ahead, folks of the wilderness, do your worst. I don't give a crap about your opinions. What I do care about is the welfare of ever single one of my birds.
As you know, I've recently brought home english budgies, and I'm working on downsizing my current flock of the small guys and only keeping my Fallow pairs.
I had a very "interesting" family come by last night to have a look at my available birds. Lets just say that these people seemed to have come from the deep woods of redneck-ville, and lacked a lot of social skills. There was a mother, father, and their son who appeared to be around 30 years old. (He still lives with his parents)
The son wanted two birds, preferably a male and a female....which is my first red light indicator. I never sell a male and female together, especially to people who have already told me that this is the first time having birds.
Second red light indicator, he started asking me about food and what to feed them (Which is a good thing, i like when people as questions) but when he asked "Can they eat kibble?", I immediately decided that none of my birds are going to go home with these people.
And the third red light indicator which was the nail in the coffin: He told me that he didn't have a bird cage, but he did have a dog crate and he was going to wrap chicken wire around it so they couldn't get out.
Needless to say, I was trying to be polite and shoo them out of my house with no birds. I told him that before buying a bird, he needed to do a LOT more research, get a proper cage, food, toys, ect... Then the whole family went off on me. Calling me names, bashing my work, telling me my birds were ugly anyways, and they would spread the word of how much my aviary sucked.
LOL. Go ahead, folks of the wilderness, do your worst. I don't give a crap about your opinions. What I do care about is the welfare of ever single one of my birds.
Jeez. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the "logic" of surrounding a dog crate with chicken wire..
