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Philosophy
The popularity for keeping birds as companion pets continues to grow each year. Conversely, most people’s free time becomes limited in today’s lifestyle. Because of this, it becomes that much more important to understand that, in general, birds are still pretty much wild animals and are nowhere close to the domesticated status of our fellow animal companion dogs and cats. What this means is that they still maintain strong wild instincts. It is also important to understand that those instincts will be manifested regardless of whether we want them there or not. Birds will still scream and squawk, they will still chew and destroy and they will continue to explore, play and forage. How we deal with these behaviours plays a large role in how happy and healthy our birds will be. That being said, most of these behaviours can be guided to allow the bird to exhibit them in a controlled manner and to prevent unnecessary stress to both the bird and to us. The BBE Tree was formed with this in mind.
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