Within reason. Long lived animals can get the same sort of neurological diseases that humans do, but without the advantage of language and healthcare.
It’s bad enough when Nana goes senile, but it’s even worse when all she can do is screech, claw, and bite at you, and there are no teams of professionals to help. That’s life with an elderly parrot.
That is a pet that has a good chance of outliving you. If you have to will your pet to someone else, you probably shouldn’t get that pet. The same reason why I told my 80-year-old mother not to get a dog. She didn’t listen to me. At least she didn’t will the dog to me.
I thought people wanted their pets to live as long them?
Within reason. Long lived animals can get the same sort of neurological diseases that humans do, but without the advantage of language and healthcare.
It’s bad enough when Nana goes senile, but it’s even worse when all she can do is screech, claw, and bite at you, and there are no teams of professionals to help. That’s life with an elderly parrot.
Shit, my family won’t able to tell the difference regarding my grandmother’s old bird, fucker was born mean
You might be too if your wings were confined to a cage. It’s the ball and chain of the avian world.
That is a pet that has a good chance of outliving you. If you have to will your pet to someone else, you probably shouldn’t get that pet. The same reason why I told my 80-year-old mother not to get a dog. She didn’t listen to me. At least she didn’t will the dog to me.