Current Events > Fact: Birds are superior pets to cats or dogs.

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You can disagree, but you're wrong.
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It's a fact.
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My sister hat a pet bird at one point. The cat killed it.

Cats win. Birds lose.
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Birds are annoying as fuck. Chirpin and shit all the time, as soon as the sun comes up. Had two as a kid and someone left the back door open when we left once and something ate them. It was a massacre, feathers fucking everywhere, didnt even care. Fucking birds.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

My sister hat a pet bird at one point. The cat killed it.

Cats win. Birds lose.

That just proves my point. Cats would have no need to do that if they weren't jealous of how superior birds are.
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Wrong
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I agree
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They never shut the fuck up.
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Benify posted...

They never shut the fuck up.

If this is the case (outside of around sunrise), they probably don't have enough toys and/or interaction (be it with humans or other birds). Or they haven't been let out of their cage to fly around for a while.
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Some birds are just more vocal than others

All worse than a small dog, though. Tiny dogs are the real pet choice for thinking men.
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We got a parakeet because I had a few as a kid that were nice pets. He was hand-raised and we got him as a baby, but now he's an anti-social piece of shit despite us trying to socialize him every other day starting like a week after we got him. He loves playing with toys, but the moment we walk past his cage he quiets down, freezes up and gives us dirty looks. Motherfucker won't even take treats.

Worst part is when we take him out to hang out on top of his cage, he fucking tries bonding with the wall. Not a picture or anything, just the flat fucking wall next to his cage. He chirps at it and rubs his face up against it, and nuzzles it like it's another fucking bird. So then we started putting one of my Transformers on top of the cage when he's out so he wouldn't become friends with a fucking wall, and he started bonding with the Transformer.

Fuck parakeets. Canaries are better.
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ForestLogic posted...

We got a parakeet because I had a few as a kid that were nice pets. He was hand-raised and we got him as a baby, but now he's an anti-social piece of shit despite us trying to socialize him every other day starting like a week after we got him. He loves playing with toys, but the moment we walk past his cage he quiets down, freezes up and gives us dirty looks. Motherfucker won't even take treats.

Worst part is when we take him out to hang out on top of his cage, he fucking tries bonding with the wall. Not a picture or anything, just the flat fucking wall next to his cage. He chirps at it and rubs his face up against it, and nuzzles it like it's another fucking bird. So then we started putting one of my Transformers on top of the cage when he's out so he wouldn't become friends with a fucking wall, and he started bonding with the Transformer.

Fuck parakeets. Canaries are better.

I assume you mean a budgie? (Parakeet is a term that covers hundreds of species of birds.)

Budgies are a bit weird. Cockatiels are way better. :D
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Cats 4 Lyfe
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DarkTransient posted...

Benify posted...

They never shut the fuck up.

If this is the case (outside of around sunrise), they probably don't have enough toys and/or interaction (be it with humans or other birds). Or they haven't been let out of their cage to fly around for a while.

birds that live outside don't shut the fuck up either
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I like the birds that you can teach to say various amusing things. Otherwise, meh.
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i like the african gray parrot myself. they speak pretty well. though i think they're harder to take care of compared to a dog.
dog be loyal pretty much because one takes care of it by feeding/walking and petting it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxulJF0OGqA" data-time="&start=25
it gets boring about 1:18 after.
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kingdrake2 posted...

i like the african gray parrot myself. they speak pretty well. though i think they're harder to take care of compared to a dog.
dog be loyal pretty much because one takes care of it by feeding/walking and petting it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxulJF0OGqA" data-time="&start=25

"Pretty well" is an understatement. With proper training, they can literally communicate at the level of a human child.

Many other species come close too, and often, the limiting factor is their vocal abilities rather than their intelligence. I don't know if it's published yet, it might still be upcoming, but look out for articles by an author Jennifer Cunha regarding her communcation training with several different types of cockatoo (if I remember correctly, an umbrella cockatoo, a Goffin's cockatoo, and a black palm cockatoo). And while I don't believe this is a focus of the upcoming article, she's even had a decent level of success with a parrotlet. Other people she's helped to train their birds have had success with all kinds of species. Most interestingly, some of the techniques she's now begun to successfully apply with dogs, too.
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DarkTransient posted...

ForestLogic posted...

We got a parakeet because I had a few as a kid that were nice pets. He was hand-raised and we got him as a baby, but now he's an anti-social piece of shit despite us trying to socialize him every other day starting like a week after we got him. He loves playing with toys, but the moment we walk past his cage he quiets down, freezes up and gives us dirty looks. Motherfucker won't even take treats.

Worst part is when we take him out to hang out on top of his cage, he fucking tries bonding with the wall. Not a picture or anything, just the flat fucking wall next to his cage. He chirps at it and rubs his face up against it, and nuzzles it like it's another fucking bird. So then we started putting one of my Transformers on top of the cage when he's out so he wouldn't become friends with a fucking wall, and he started bonding with the Transformer.

Fuck parakeets. Canaries are better.

I assume you mean a budgie? (Parakeet is a term that covers hundreds of species of birds.)

Budgies are a bit weird. Cockatiels are way better. :D

Yeah, a budgie parakeet. The standard American smaller ones, not the fat British show budgies.

Only thing we were able to do with that son of a bitch was teach him to do a quick little wolf whistle. After that we tried to get him to mimic the first few notes of the Super Mario Bros. theme but he always gives up halfway through.

Fuck that bird.
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