Birds Can Become Valuable Pets

Do you understand why millions of birds worldwide have become successful pets in homes? What has initiated the increased interest in birds over the last 25 years? Have birds changed and suddenly become a desirable animal, or have people just recognized their attributes?

These seem to be pertinent questions for bird owners. Another question and maybe of equal concern-Can birds be as happy in homes as they would have been in the wild?

The answer to all these questions hinges upon the mentality of birds-their personality, emotions, and ability to learn and to adjust.

In general, nature seems to have designed birds to live equally well both in the wild and in homes as pets! Their heritage prepares them well for relating to people and being domesticated. This has been proven repeatedly by the millions of successful birds in homes.

Their qualities of fun and friendship, their desire to talk, sing, perform, play, and to be a companion endears them to man. However, all these attributes would mean nothing if birds could not adjust to living

Bringing birds into home situations which prohibit free flight would seem to go against what nature has instilled into birds over millions of years. And yet, birds show no behavioral or psychological effects from being denied flight.

So successfully have birds adapted themselves to life in the wild that numerically they outnumber all the other land vertebrates. There are approximately 8700 living species of birds as compared with 3000 amphibians, 6000 reptiles, and 4100 mammals.

Could it be that the adaptability of birds will allow them to accomplish in captivity what they have done in the wild?

Yes, that same ability has allowed them to become pets in millions of homes worldwide. If the trend continues, birds could eventually outnumber cats and dogs as pets.

Some day birds will be the most popular pet.

How much difference is there between a wild and a tame bird? Maybe not so much!!