Worse than having teeth. Imagine having two giant teeth, but they're built in there even more firmly so it sucks even worse if something goes wrong, and also they extend like half a foot or more outside your face. And you're supposed to use it to eat? Fucking awful. Look at videos of toucans trying to eat. They've spent their whole lives practicing and it still looks awkward, like they're doing their best not to fuck it up

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It also grows so if you don’t have the proper diet it can get all out whack and overgrown so you can’t eat properly and then your quality of life is wrecked and in extreme cases you starve

To complicate the matter it’s not like a tooth, it’s more like a dog or cats nail in that it has blood vessels running through it, so if the above happens you can’t just trim it back haphazardly because then you might be seriously hurt or even killed

Owning birds is fucked up. Like a domesticated dog is one thing and still somewhat debatable philosophically but taking a bird that can literally fly, often lives 40-80 years (if we’re talking parrots), is a social animal by nature that typically exists in a flock, demands attention and stimulation for many hours of the day, and then putting it in a cage so you can like look at it is just inherently cruel. If I come to your house and you have a bird I judge you

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There's a few exceptions, like that YouTuber who rescues Toucans and keeps them in a huge aviary with outdoor and temp controlled sections. Or birds many many generations into captivity (I knew someone who did falconry and it's more that the bird just decides to stick around in that case.) But yeah.

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