Quote Originally Posted by goshawkr View Post
Well, humans are so far the highest order animal known. And abused women (and men) frequently return to their abuser.

Maybe we do brain wash our hawks. Its acutally pretty hard to completely kill all ability to make that statement.
Well, i dunno, I would think if that were true we wouldn't be able to release them at the end of the year, or even worry about hunting them fat..?


If broken feathers in a captive hawk is such a problem, I'd like to know why the pet parrot industry hasn't been affected much by the AR people. Granted they are supposedly ALL captive bred now, not wild taken as that's illegal now, but the ratio of falconry birds that are CB and/or hybridized is tipping more and more as well. I could see that broken feathers could be an emotional motivator to find more substantial arguments... but I imagine as soon as they've run out of all the captive cockatoos that have plucked them selves bare bleeding they'll eventually turn to the few broken feathers on all our birds.