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Subject: Re: INDOOR: Looking for a newsgroup focused more on pet birds
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Date: 21 Sep 90 21:04:29 GMT
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This is a response to Fred Sieg's query "Where have all the pet bird-owned
people gone?"  Well, here I am (and I'm sure I'm not the only one)  
You ARE right, I think the demands for separation and reprimands for
the neglect of INDOOR / OUTDOOR headers seems to have scared the pet
birders away.  I'm a proud cockatiel owner, but also a wild bird watcher
and read this group for both.  Frankly, I'd love to be able to relate
silly pet stories on the net (prefaced by an INDOOR header, of course)
while still keeping up on the stories of Andean/California condor release,
etc.  Heck, Chi (my cock.) loves outdoor birds too - he has his very
own wild-bird feeder hung outside the window near his cage and gets
submitted to the antics of house finches and scrub jays all day long.
I must admit, too, that I've never bothered with rec.pets because it
really doesn't address bird problems/stories at all.  Frankly, I dislike
the concept of splitting this group (though it would certainly be nice
to avoid all the animousity!), and just think that the pet birders should
just continue to post here and let the die-hard-wild-bird-people-"how-
could-anyone-even-THINK-of-keeping-pet-birds" just learn to be a little
more lenient and put up with us.

I seriously hope that in saying this I haven't offended anyone.  Just MHO.


--
Bonnie       Said the kid waiting in line to get a baseball signed by the
             famous pitcher, when his dad told him to buy another ball:
             "What do you need two balls for?!  One is more than enough!"
                            Ah, youth....