How Chaos in the Bird Room Can Save Your Bird From Injuries

Last Updated on February 16, 2023 by Mitch Rezman

The majority of pet bird keepers that prefer their bird’s wings clipped offer a similar response when asked about their motivation to remove the function that defines a species.

“I don’t want him to fly into a wall/window/glass table” are typical responses.

I’ll then ask “so your parents never let you learn to drive because they feared you would drive into a garage door/road median/privacy fence”?

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“Well, we all took driver’s ed” is typically regurgitated.

This is me speaking aloud.

To be clear, you brought what is literally a descendant of velociraptors with 100 million years of instinctual expectations, into your home and expected that by lopping off a dozen wing feathers everything will well for the next 5 or 6 decades – do I have that right”?