Please never own pets.

Babies and normal quiet sleeping environments conflict more than pets, want to get rid of babies too?

28, please never reproduce. I love animals but I won't be controlled by them. If you feed them, groom them, play with them several times a day, pet, and they demand more, too bad. I'm assuming that OP is still giving what spare attention they can to the bird. Some of you are obsessed about your fur babies in a sick way that makes me question what goes on and what would go on in your relationship with them for you to madly rabidly defend then like a teenage girl defending her bf. You love them and care for them but you speak their language on boundaries and house rules. Otherwise you're a pathetic doormat. I bet you'd never discipline a kid and be content with them running things. Great parenting. What is seriously wrong with giving up a pet to a loving family that can provide more attention? Oh the bird needs therapy? It shouldn't have been squawking then. It learned the hard way. I'm not suggesting to kill it it, PETA freaks. I have a cat that listens to us if we tell her to get off things. Usually just a firm voice will work and pointing to the ground. Ideally they could retain it long term in their little brains. 29, you can help your young baby start sleeping through the night at 6 months or younger if you start it early. Raise your kid fairly, but with love and structure, and everyone will be happy and well adjusted. Someone compared the bird's intelligence to a 2 year old. So they should be smart enough to know right from wrong? Or they can't?

We're sick because we're protective and care deeply for another living being..? You talk about US not being able to discipline but you refuse to even attempt to teach an animal. "Oh it's not acting like I want it to, better get rid of it", seriously how are you a good parent if you think like that? If you don't have the empathy to understand how another creature feels, like suddenly not having all the attention(would a single child able to not act the same way?), and would rather give up and stress and upset the animal further because you can't be bothered: please don't reproduce OR own pets.

Well that all works out fine but there are a lot of types of species who will pine away, refuse to eat or drink, and even die because they miss their owners #36 so giving them away doesn't always work. Mastiffs for example will do so as have Great Danes, Huskies, German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, Bull Dogs, Siamese Cats, Tabby's, a few other species of Fish and surprisingly a few pet snakes have even done so. Simply because we are capable of loving our animals and our children doesn't make us "freaks" as you put it not does it mean that we are having physical relationships as you inferred, it just means our hearts are a little bigger. That's something that the world can alway do with a little more of in my view. KCCO

Lmao. 41 and 43 said it perfectly. Also I will not be reproducing, can't stand kids. Which is exactly why I have pets.

I think **** our lives that #36 reproduced!

Cockatoos live 20+ years. If you aren't willing to take care of it that long, don't buy the bird. Pawning it off on someone else because you didn't realize the commitment is bullshit though.

Up to 70 years, actually.

you can sell them as any other pet? Pets are part of the family. You're not supposed to sell them.