Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
Yes, wing clipping is very painful for the bird....that is why i would never have one...i couldnt do it...*sighs*
OMG! I can't believe you said that!

If you don't know, say I DON'T KNOW, but don't go around giving people mis-information! Do you think we bird mommies would EVER hurt our babies? NO WAY! It doesn't hurt them AT ALL. My birds don't make a peep when I clip their wings because I hold them so gently and do it really fast. Wing clipping is no different from us cutting our hair? Is cutting our hair very painful for us humans? NO! Same with the birds. Wing clipping is not clipping the actual wing. That would be a crime. Its just clipping the tips of a few feathers on their wings so that they cannot gain high altitude when they fly, and its done for their safety (so they don't fly into the toilet or stove or windows, etc.). It does NOT hurt the bird AT ALL.

So now that you know, I'd think you *could* have a bird, since you said you wouldn't ever get one because you couldn't hurt it. Besides, wing clipping is a personal choice and you don't HAVE to clip if you have a bird, so that's not an issue whether to have one as a pet or not. Most people do it for the safety of their birds. A clipped bird can still fly low, but many pet birds choose not to fly much whether they are clipped or not anyway. Birds shed their feathers during molting season, so its obviously not going to hurt them if you cut part of a feather that would fall of naturally anyway when they molt and get new ones. Their feathers grow back and they can fly high again after several months, just like our hair grows back when you cut it. Some birds bite or scream when they get clipped because they don't like to be held that way with their wing held open, but not because of pain. There is no pain, and when its done, they don't even know they were clipped. LOL

Next time say *I don't know* instead of giving people wrong information. Any sane person would know that a loving bird mommy would NEVER hurt her birdies!