Opt to adopt!

[avia]

I just remembered I have these blank stickers for activism stuffs... so I used a few....


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I think, I'm going on a tour of some local pet stores soon.

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[redsixwing]

Rock ON. I am totally down with the "responsibility for what we have [captured and/or bred]," and raising awareness is definitely a good thing. Best of luck in your endeavors!

Checked out the wordpress site; I blink a bit at their 'feathered angels' rhetoric, but they have links to some really good stuff.

[avia]

Thank you!

I decided I'm going to write some letters to Petsmart and Petco as well, as soon as I can get my computer to actually start my programs.

[redsixwing]

Awesome sauce. ^^
The nearest Pet[whateveritis] to me has a policy now about 'exotic animals,' which covers pretty much all the birds (excepting, I think, diamond doves and budgies?) - I think it's great, though it was a bit scary to think that state (it's in a different state) might outlaw keeping of birds -at all,- which is utterly unhelpful to the birds already being kept. What does one do with them all?

Eh, I get rambly. ^^;

[avia]

Yeah... in the end, I would like to see it outlawed to keep birds as pets, but, it's important to have a safe situation to transition the birds that exist now.

I think the sensible thing is not to outlaw keeping birds, but, outlaw breeding (and importing, though, I think that already is outlawed) for pet trade... which means that people allowed to keep the birds they have now, in safe homes, but, there won't be more. That makes most sense to me.

[avia]

(And I say "outlaw breeding for pet trade" particularly because, I believe that breeding for conservation can be important. But, I would want it to cover breeding that isn't happening in a conservation program.)

[redsixwing]

Mm, yes, I completely agree!

... hence why I'm glad my menagerie are all boys. *lol*

[avia]

Hehe, yes! (And, seems like a lot of different species, too. ^v^)