I have the same concerns about the black
market effect.
From: mickacoo-bounces@mickaboo.org
[mailto:mickacoo-bounces@mickaboo.org] On
Behalf Of monica deza
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 12:50
PM
To: Elizabeth Young
Cc: MickaCoo@mickaboo.org; General
mickaboo discussion
Subject: Re: [MickaCoo]
Clarification from
I agree that selling
birds is terrible, and it seems that nobody but animal rescues are looking out
for what s best for the birds. However, I am a little worried about some
unintended consequences from the law. I may not be understanding the law
correctly, so please correct me if I am wrong. I think that it won t be allowed
to have birds in any pet store, the same way that dogs and cats are not allowed
to be kept in Pet smarts or Petcos, right? The only thing that worries me is
that those customers who only want a baby bird that they can see right before
purchasing it, may start going directly to the breeder instead of the petstore
and in that case, breeders will be better off. The reason why that worries me
is because in a pet store, it is on the owner's best interest to show a parrot
in a pretty clean cage, with toys, and clean food and water. However, the
breeder can keep them in his/her house in whatever conditions because nobody
can see them.
There are 3 types of customers for birds. (1) The ones that truly care about
helping a bird, and those will choose rescue, so the law won t affect their
impact on the sale of birds. (2) The ones that may be indecisive, and would go
to either. The law may make it harder for them to buy them in SF, so hopefully
these will choose rescue now. (3)The ones that absolutely want a baby bird who
you can play for 5 minutes before buying it. Unfortunately, there is nothing we
can do to prevent these people from buying a bird, unless we banned breeding
and selling altogether, which I wish was true. Even if it gets banned, there
will always be a black market for it, and I would feel much better with the
birds being in a Petco (where it s on the owner's best interest to take care of
them) than with them being sold in the flea market or from the neighbor's
backyard. As long as these people are a big group and are willing to pay big
bucks, I believe someone would be willing to breed birds for them.
I am not saying that I support animal sales at all. I would love to see
animal selling and breeding being completely banned and most importantly,
correctly enforced. I am just afraid of a black market for them. I sure hope
that our adoption events, and the awesome job you guys do do inform people
about rescue will change their preferences towards rescues. Only when people
are not willing to pay the big bucks for birds, it s only then that people will
stop breeding. It s sad but true.
Thanks
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Elizabeth Young <adoptkings@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello-
I'm sorry if my passing along the info from the "Protect our
Precious Animals" group (which more honestly should be called Protect
Our Precious Profits) has confused folks.
There is a HUGE crisis in the pet bird world. Most birds that
have homes aren't properly cared for and the average parrot will be rehomed
seven times in the first ten years of its life because that improper care (and
sometimes even proper care) results in noise, mess and aggression levels that
most people aren't willing or able to cope with.
I sent that info out not to support it but to alert people that there
are a lot of bird sellers fighting to keep up the business despite the
devastating impact it has on creatures that we know suffer pitifully from being
treated like merchandise.
I support the ban on pet sales in SF, especially for birds! We
humans have not been trustworthy in our selling of pets and animals have and
continue to suffer terribly because of it.
e
--
Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt.
www.RescueReport.org
www.MickaCoo.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0
_______________________________________________
MickaCoo mailing list
MickaCoo@mickaboo.org
https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mickacoo