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Anonymous
This is my new Lovebird Sunset :D
>> Anonymous
BECAUSE OF IT'S FACE, RIGHT?
>> Anonymous
you bought a single lovebird?
>> Anonymous
>>156782
some people don't get it, dude.

people should have to get permits to own animals
>> Anonymous
They're cannibalistic, so why would he want more than one?
>> Anonymous
I like how people don't know that you don't have to keep them in pairs. They actually make better pets if you just keep one. They'll bond with a human just as well as another lovebird.
>> Anonymous
>>156792

For real. My friend had a single lovebird that bonded so strongly to him. If you have the time available to give a lovebird all the attention they need, they make such fantastic companions.
>> Anonymous
>>157237

EXACTLY.
>If you can give them all the attention they need.

So, if you're unemployed and not going to school, get one lovebird.

No, you don't HAVE to get two. The reason you should get very social birds, like budgies and lovebirds in pairs is that it will improve the quality of their lives IMMENSELY. They will be happier and probably live longer (provided you're giving them the correct diet, which is something else the average person has trouble with... but you don't HAVE to feed them anything other than mixed bags of "lovebird" food.. they can live without it, right?)

Just like bettas can survive in a little cup. Because they can doesn't mean they should.
>> Anonymous
>>157324
You're a fucking retard. Giving them attention doesn't mean spending time with them 24/7. Letting them out and around you while you're home away from school/work is plenty enough time.
>> Anonymous
>>157339

You're right. My post DID show what I know.
24/7? Not likely. But does a budgie or a lorikeet or a lovebird etc ever leave the flock? Even for a few minutes? No.
Being alone is NOT natural for these birds. Silence means only one thing to them: danger. Who knows how they interpret isolation.
There's no way you can be with your pet 24/7. That's why bird owners play music or something if they have to leave for a few hours.

If you were working or going to school 8 hours a day, it would be cruel to force such a social animal to be alone.
>> Anonymous
Reminds me of experiments where parrots were given a computer controller stick they could push, pull, and twist. They played music and looked at photos of people they knew.
>> Gunlord !.YMO7aNBcQ
>>157487
People who buy rodents as pets seem mentally disturbed to me. Why the fuck do you get a pet that you literally have to keep trapped in a tiny glass box all day long or they'll fucking scurry away and hide from you. It's actually pretty damn twisted to then pretend to love the thing that you're keeping trapped.

IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN.
>> Anonymous
>>157488

Yup, rodents too.
>> Anonymous
Oh, as an addendum. . . stop buying 'pets' that are at the bottom of the fucking food chain. rabbits, gerbils, budgies any of that shit.

Those are things you feed to actual pets you fucking pussies.
>> Anonymous
>>157487
Most of the birds I've owned never had cages. Cept for the tiny ones, and they were put in there at night for safety reasons.

I also had a rat that lived free once. She would sleep in the desk drawer where I kept my keyboard (elevated on a book) or right under the warm monitor.. Sometimes at night she'd run around on my bed while I was trying to sleep.
Then she figured out how to get to the room next door and freaked out the girls rooming there.. (despite their claims, she was not the size of a football..) Only they didn't know it was a pet since anything other than fish were disallowed.. Had an exterminator check out the building and stuff.
I had to put her back in a cage after that. That was in a dorm, btw.
>> Anonymous
>>157490
I get budgies 'cause they're my favorite. I don't think my 15 foot reticulated python would have any interest in eating them, though.
The oppossum might, however.

What's a real pet to you, anyway? One that isn't small? Are you a pit owner or something?
>> Anonymous
>>157495

Snakes are weird pets too. There's no personality there.

I've had dogs and cats, dogs while I lived in the country and he basically just went wherever the fuck he wanted and came home for food and sleep because he wanted to. Same with the cat I have now. We essentially just share the same living space out of choice, he can leave anytime he wants.

That's a pet. An animal that lives with you by it's own choice and rules. Not something you lock up and force into accepting you because it has no other options.