Pheonix
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Being a Sunday I spent my day relaxing and getting my parrot brain back on again so to speak. Everything has been great as far as beginning to get myself organised and back into the swing again of prepping for a parrot.
I have just found out that the only way to find any parrot breeders here in Bangkok and Thailand is to go through the dreaded pet section on the edge of Thailand's biggest market.
So, what does a person do? One doesn't want to support markets where animals are scared and sitting in the heat under umbrellas or cooped up in air coned rooms looking bewildered. I went there once - as previously mentioned in another thread - it was so traumatic but the only way to communicate with breeders is to go where they sell. Sure, breeders sell to petshops etc but the biggest place to get animals sold is this market.
I'm between a rock and a hard place because I know there are diseases flying around that place and don't want to go down that road again with a sick parrot - I can ask that any parrot I want to buy from the breeder never goes anywhere near the market - the risk is still there though as the parrots taken back home - this market only runs on a Fri/Sat/Sun - could spread disease back at the breeders place. Again, I don't want to support anything to do with people supplying animals to markets but where do I draw the line?
Do I take the chance and request a parrot from the breeder which has not set claw in that place and hope for the best or go through the hardships of importing a bird that could not make the ordeal of being transported into the country?
Do I tell myself from the beginning that there could be a chance of only having the parrot for a short while because it could be ill?
There are petshops in shopping centres as well but at the same time they could be carrying diseases.
English is limited here and bargaining for a parrot would be part of the song and dance. Requesting to view where the breeder keeps his/her birds back home would not be an option - we are foreigners and if they say no its no.
Its very different here. The vets on the other hand are nice and at least that is something that I do not have to worry about. I would approach the vets and ask them where to get parrots from but no breeders names would be given out because that would cut out the middle man so to speak - all very complicated.
What does everyone think?
I have just found out that the only way to find any parrot breeders here in Bangkok and Thailand is to go through the dreaded pet section on the edge of Thailand's biggest market.
So, what does a person do? One doesn't want to support markets where animals are scared and sitting in the heat under umbrellas or cooped up in air coned rooms looking bewildered. I went there once - as previously mentioned in another thread - it was so traumatic but the only way to communicate with breeders is to go where they sell. Sure, breeders sell to petshops etc but the biggest place to get animals sold is this market.
I'm between a rock and a hard place because I know there are diseases flying around that place and don't want to go down that road again with a sick parrot - I can ask that any parrot I want to buy from the breeder never goes anywhere near the market - the risk is still there though as the parrots taken back home - this market only runs on a Fri/Sat/Sun - could spread disease back at the breeders place. Again, I don't want to support anything to do with people supplying animals to markets but where do I draw the line?
Do I take the chance and request a parrot from the breeder which has not set claw in that place and hope for the best or go through the hardships of importing a bird that could not make the ordeal of being transported into the country?
Do I tell myself from the beginning that there could be a chance of only having the parrot for a short while because it could be ill?
There are petshops in shopping centres as well but at the same time they could be carrying diseases.
English is limited here and bargaining for a parrot would be part of the song and dance. Requesting to view where the breeder keeps his/her birds back home would not be an option - we are foreigners and if they say no its no.
Its very different here. The vets on the other hand are nice and at least that is something that I do not have to worry about. I would approach the vets and ask them where to get parrots from but no breeders names would be given out because that would cut out the middle man so to speak - all very complicated.
What does everyone think?
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