Just Saw the Most Irresponsible YouTube Video Ever!!!

[EllenD]

I meant to post about this a couple of weeks ago, but with Bowie sick and I also am dealing with a kidney stone and the resulting UTI and probably Kidney Infection, I forgot about it...This just completely disgusted me, as it was posted by an extremely popular YouTube "parrot personality/vlogger", and from reading the comments below the video I know this person made a horribly negative-impression on the people who unfortunately listen to every word she says...

This very popular, long-time "Parrot Vlogger" on YouTube, who I'm sure many members here are aware of and even watch, posted a video last month that was solely about how "Vets are nothing but Vampires who kill parrots to make money" (that's a direct quote), and then she went on to specifically and directly tell people to "Never, ever take your bird to a vet. You'll spend a fortune and it will die anyway. Nurse your bird back to health at home yourself". The she went-on some gibberish about natural supplements such as Aloe-Vera and their "Healing Powers", and then how "Aloe Vera is better than any antibiotic or medicine that any vet can give you for curing your bird. This is healing-powers people. You don't ever need a vet, they will take your money and kill your bird". Then she went on and on about how her bird had died years ago, and blamed it on the multiple vets that she took him to (NONE OF WHICH WERE CERTIFIED AVIAN VETS! I believe only one was even an Exotic's Vet, the other two were general vets), and she of course failed to mention a single word about how bird instinctively hide illnesses for as long as they can, and that her bird was most-likely ill for quite some time before she ever took him to the vet, which should make perfect sense to her and anyone who knows the situation, as her bird died within days of first showing any signs at all of anything being wrong...

The she started talking about how her birds just cry and squawk the entire time the vet is examining them, and the vets don't care, so this is just killing her birds from the stress. Then she went as far as to have a friend of her's tell his story of a very bad experience with a vet that was obviously not a CAV but rather an Exotic's Vet who had no idea at all what they were doing, and who told him that his Macaw was going to die and he needed to pay to keep his bird in the hospital overnight so they could do tests. So then this guy too told everyone to "Never take your bird to any vet, it will just die. Birds die whenever they go to the vet. Just do what you can do at home, but please don't take your birds to a vet, they only want your money!"

Not once did anyone mention the words "Certified Avian Vet" or explain the difference between a CAV and an Exotic's Vet or a General Vet. Not a peep. Nor was the fact that birds hide all outward signs of illness for as long as they can. Not.One.Word. Just 30+ minutes of her telling people to never take their birds to a vet because all they will do is take their money and kill their birds because they are "heartless vampires"...I was just horrified and pissed-off...

I commented on the above, but I got attacked by her "CVP's", lol, telling me that she knows everything about birds, that I'm wrong and know nothing, that I'm a tool, etc., and that "they'll never take their bird to a vet because she's exactly right, Vets are nothing but a con and a scam"...That's what she's accomplishing here...

I just had to vent to people who would understand, because this Vlogger drives me totally insane anyway, as she is the most "click-baity" person on YouTube, hands-down. She has no shame at all when it comes to that, and people just keep-on falling for it over and over and over...But this post wasn't just annoying or petty. This was irresponsible and potentially lethal to a lot of people's pets...

 

[noodles123]

arg..that is annoying.
I am wondering if this person is a person who I generally like...hmm
I can see avoiding bird vets due to the number of sick birds, but if your bird is sick and you don't take it then you are really screwed.
I don't think the vet is a great field trip destination but certainly necessary for a sick bird! lol


EDIT: PHEW! I don't think it was the female vlogger I had in mind....that makes me feel better (As I generally think she is decent)..Nothing on vets in recent video history

 

[itzjbean]

I am speechless!

There are many videos out there that have made me literally cringe and turn away. People that take their birds outside without a harness.... people that show their birds in super small cages with disgusting conditions... people that find birds and decide to keep them without trying to find their owner.... the list just goes on. But what you describe is just WRONG! Let's not get our birds help when they're sick. Heck, while we're at it, better not take our dogs or cats to a vet, either! For crying out loud... It's the same as saying don't take your kids to a doctor.

Maybe this person has lost birds to a careless vet, or maybe she decided to get them help too late, who knows. But I don't agree with trying to heal a sick bird at home, that is horrible advice!! Vets save lives every day!

 

[EllenD]

arg..that is annoying.
I am wondering if this person is a person who I generally like...hmm
I can see avoiding bird vets due to the number of sick birds, but if your bird is sick and you don't take it then you are really screwed.
I don't think the vet is a great field trip destination but certainly necessary for a sick bird! lol


EDIT: PHEW! I don't think it was the female vlogger I had in mind....that makes me feel better (As I generally think she is decent)..Nothing on vets in recent video history

I don't know if it is or not, but this person has a Macaw, a Lori, and 2 Amazons, if that helps you...I don't "dislike" her at all...Her obviously and chronic, almost every video "click-bait" titles are annoying as all hell, but in-general a lot of her free-flight videos are pretty awesome (though she has lost her bird several times already, once for 3 days and he was near death when she found him, and ironically took him right to her Certified Avian Vet immediately after, lol)...That's the other thing, she now takes her birds to one of the best CAV's in her area, probably the best CAV in her area, but she didn't mention a word about him or how she takes her bird to him on a regular basis...

She did have a very bad experience when she lost her first parrot a few years ago, it was tragic and very hard to watch, as she recorded the entire process and posted it at the time...she had spent the entire afternoon going from vet to vet to vet trying to find one that would even see a bird, and the last one she went to told her they couldn't see her bird until the next day, and that if they did see him the next day it would be considered an "emergency appointment" and would cost her $250! So she left their office, and her bird died a couple of hours later...it was horrible...Then she called this vet's office back, crying and screaming about them not seeing her bird and now he was dead, and directly blaming them for her bird dying...Now screw that vet's office and the woman at the desk that didn't even go back and speak to the CAV to see if he'd squeeze the bird in, who was obviously very, very ill and near death at the time...The receptionist just kept saying "Sorry, we're full and we close at 4:00"...So yes, that was a horrible vet, no doubt, and a heartless vet at that...Then she used this video as the intro to this new video telling people to not take their birds to a vet at all, ever...

Obviously there are vets who are not qualified at all to treat birds. Obviously there are vets that don't care about the animals they treat at all, and who only want money. This is definitely true, just as there are human doctors who are exactly the same way...But this vlogger knows damn well that this is not the norm, nor the majority, as once again she now takes her bird to one of the best CAV's in her area. She just has a history of showing such irresponsible behavior with her birds, mainly her free-flying bird...she's lost him numerous times, once for 3 days, and she has an extremely expensive GPS tracking system for him, but barely ever puts it on him because "he doesn't like it"...That's frustrating, but her choice, her bird...bad example, but whatever...But this video was just outright irresponsible...And the other thing is she accuses people all.the.time. of trying to "steal her bird" while she's free-flying him, lol...it's interesting, to say the least...But again, I don't dislike her, obviously not if I watch her videos, lol...But this video just really got to me...

 

[noodles123]

Amen---I agree.
The person I am thinking of doesn't do free-flight and has a cockatoo



Either way, sad that such misinformation is being spread around by a popular source...

 

[ChristaNL]

I so get it... just keep venting!


Think I know of her- saw 3 or 4 of her contributions and was done with that individual. :vomit-smi
Obvious vote-whoring and not enough caring about her parrots wellbeing by far!
To get very medieval: throw that creature in the midden !


Oh my, did not know you had your own physical issues to deal with as well as a sick bird.
A Big WOW for holding it all together the way you do! :40:

 

[Karlys]

Aaaand now she and her friends lost their macaws while free flying a couple days ago, apparently. The three macaws took off together and didn't come back.

I'm saddened by the click bait-y "do it for the views" culture that has taken over Youtube, especially when it hurts animals and children.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Get better, Ellen... AND Bowie!

 

[itzjbean]

Aaaand now she and her friends lost their macaws while free flying a couple days ago, apparently. The three macaws took off together and didn't come back.

I'm saddened by the click bait-y "do it for the views" culture that has taken over Youtube, especially when it hurts animals and children.

Woww.... but with what she is spouting off, it doesn't surprise me. It takes some serious training to free-fly, and the risks are even higher if not trained properly. Wonder if they'll ever see them again. Now I'm sort of interested to see a video, anyone care to point me to the channel? or PM me.

 

[EllenD]

I've been sick and my Green Cheek has been sick, so I didn't realize that she has lost her Macaw again...are you serious? Again? No GPS on him I take it...That's just sad, I certainly don't wish this upon anyone or their birds at all...

I want to say that this vlogger that we're talking about does in-fact care deeply about her birds, I mean, she turned the entire inside of her house into a bird-gym for them, lol. And she does feed them all a fantastic, homemade diet every single day, and spends all day with them, every day (she's a movie director/producer/writer)...So it's not that she doesn't love her birds, that's not it...I think she's just lacking in the common-sense area, and she tends to say the first thing that she thinks without using the filter in her brain, lol...

I mean, Free-Flight scares the hell out of me, but if trained properly it can be done quite successfully...but even the most-experienced Free-Flighter's lose their birds, and this is why most of them invest the $1,000+ in the GPS Trackimo unit to put on their birds. But to lose your bird who you love more than anything in the world twice (I believe that she really does, honestly) and still not put the GPS on him, well, that's just asking for a lost or dead bird. And the entire vet video thing just so pissed me off that I wanted to drive to California and grab her and shake her...

 

[ChristaNL]

That is one person that deserves to lose her birds.
(I sincerely doubt it she would care very much als long as the thumbs up, ego-strokes and subscribers kept coming in. But that's just me. I always feel like I am watching a commercial about herself toting a parrot around, not about doing the best for your birds. Ego, ego, ego ....soooo boring to watch.)

If I'd have found them I (for a few moments at least!) would be sorely tempted to keep them and give them a better home.
(Good thing there is an ocean etc. between us - keeps me out of trouble )

 

[Owlet]

Can I ask who the vlogger is?

 

[Scott]

I have no clue about this individual, but the explosion of vloggers and erstwhile internet personalities is often absent ethics and the most rudimentary of knowledge. Scary how folks look up to them as experts and are eager to copy their often horribly misguided methods.

 

[EllenD]

I just checked YouTube, believe it or not (I'm stunned myself), she actually had the freaking $1,000 GPS unit on him this time...LOL, wonders never cease, she drove down to where the birds were and then said something like "Wow, this GPS tracker is just amazing, it shows exactly where he is!"...Sacre' Bleu!

It's actually worth watching the second video where she goes and finds him, because she parks her car on the street right in front of where the 3 birds are, and of course he won't come to her for anything in the world, she stands there screaming and calling for him for like an hour, until her friend who owns the other 2 birds arrived, called his birds once, and they came flying right down to him, lol...then her bird came down..unbelievable...But the best part was the seriously and literally, no joke, mentally-ill woman who came walking down the street in green scrubs, like she had walked out of a hospital or away from her care-giver, etc. I don't know, but this woman was certifiably insane, no doubt at all. She kept trying to steal her bag of nuts out of the back of her car (of course she left the hatch up), so you've got her yelling for her bird to come down, which he wouldn't, intermixed with her yelling, and I quote, "DON'T TOUCH MY NUTS!" over and over and over again at the top of her lungs in the middle of the street for an hour...

It's definitely a classic piece of American cinema...

 

[dhraiden]

That last bit with the person wearing medical scrubs sounds almost scripted. People will do anything for "views"/ratings/whatever. I tend to watch those individuals who keep birds and happen to videotape them doing cute things, but avoid the compilations and anything that seems too "wacky"...or I just let my SO show me what she finds touching or cute.


I wonder if they saw that guy who has the macaw fly alongside him while he motorcycles/speed-boats/etc and thought, "hey I can probably do the same thing!"?

 

[ChrisYNA]

Ellen - I've been subscribed to her channel for a long time, but rarely watch her videos anymore because she just angers me. She keeps losing her bird. Always has some kind of an emergency. A lot of clickbait in her videos. I watched 3 or 4 of her videos in the past couple weeks (first time in months, as I do try to avoid her) and she keeps talking about "merch" people can buy from her, which I don't necessarily mind, but it feels like she is trying to milk her youtube audience.

An interesting video she put out this week was with a GPS device she put on her macaw that actually worked.. and that's a good thing because she lost her bird AGAIN, along with 2 of her friend's. In another video this week, there was a hawk flying around her macaw (not the first time). I think one day, an accident will happen and she will lose her bird for good.

Now, she certainly loves that macaw of hers. But she drives me crazy, especially with that annoying high-pitched shriek she makes when calling to him. I can't listen to that without wanting to rip the ears off my head.

That vet video was completely irresponsible on her part. She can actually cost someone their bird with it. And she set up the camera and video-recorded the phone call she made with her bird laying in her hand... again, made a "show" of it to make an exciting video and milk the audience. I straight up don't like her.

 

[ChrisYNA]

btw, a great free flight youtube channel that's beautifully filmed is "Adventures of Roku", for those unfamiliar.

 

[EllenD]

I totally agree with everything you just said Chris, I'm not subscribed to her, lol...I tend to hit YouTube and go through the parrot channels, her's is one of them...But that "Don't ever take your bird to the vet because they're all Vampires who kill birds for money" pissed me off so badly that I sent her a message and posted a comment, only to have her delete it, of course. Such a bad example she is setting for everyone watching, especially young people who are thinking "I want to free-fly my bird now"...

I agree, every moment of her life is "tragic" in some way, and I have no doubt at all that a lot of what happens is scripted for clicks/views. But her losing her birds over and over again definitely was not scripted at all, apparent by the near-death condition of her Macaw when she found him at the border-patrol station...She's getting hammered after this last episode, people are actually starting to wise-up and comment about her learning from this, because she's been the luckiest person in the world so far, and if she loses him again without the GPS on him, she's not getting him back...

I was watching this last video where the 3 birds get lost and thinking to myself (as the friend is in the background yelling for his birds) "I bet all 3 birds are back at the car"...I don't think so, I think they did get away again, as they were stupidly flying them from the top of a mountain/cliff and allowing them to fly over and dive-bomb into the valleys below them, where they couldn't see them, and where the birds naturally would land on trees, not realizing they're way below where their people are...The mentally-ill woman, I don't know if that was scripted or not, if it was she did a good job of putting the whole thing together (however she is a movie director and writer)...

The click-bait thing was out of control long-ago, and she knows it...

 

[EllenD]

Okay, I just had to laugh, as I logged-into YouTube just now, and her most current video is called something like "7 Steps To Finding Your Lost Bird"...apparently her friend actually lost one of his birds AGAIN. The same friend who lost 2 of his birds with her bird and was lucky enough to find them because they stayed with her bird and he had on a GPS tracker? Yeah, him. He apparently flew his birds again right after getting them back and lost another one, and cannot find them (he never uses GPS as he is like "the bird whisperer" or something)...This guy has 4 Macaws, 2 OF THEM ARE HYACINTHS that he free-flies every day without any GPS at all...He was featured in this new video, talking about how "You need to make sure that your bond with your birds is so strong and you train them so well that they know not to ever go to another person besides you, because if you lose them and someone finds them before you do, they'll keep them and you'll never get them back, regardless whether they are chipped or not, as people just see money and don't care that they belong to someone"...(that's me paraphrasing what he said)...

I don't know what's more ironic, the fact that these two made a video posting "tips and tricks" to finding your parrot when you lose them, or the fact that every person who has posted in the comments is doing nothing but kissing her butt, telling her how much they love her and look up to her, and now they know how to properly train their birds, etc. It's horrifying actually.

 

[itzjbean]

btw, a great free flight youtube channel that's beautifully filmed is "Adventures of Roku", for those unfamiliar.

I subscribe to adventures of roku!! I love his videos, those birds look so happy.

I can't stand to look at her videos any more. It just gets me all worked up and I get the urge to shake her.