Hi everyone! I would like some advice about the welfare/quality of life of my roommate's parrot and any suggested course of action if I need to step in for the birds safety.

My new roommate has a green conure and I'm worried she is being neglected. For 9-10 hours a day my roommate is gone so the bird is constantly alone and screams non-stop which makes me think something is wrong. The blinds of his room are shut 24/7 so the bird never sees sunlight and as far as I can tell never leaves its cage. When we sorted out household rules I even specified I'm fine with the bird being out from time to time but he says he doesn't handle her. About 2 months ago he was out of town for the weekend and asked me to babysit the bird last minute which is how I saw the state of her cage.

She has no toys, two wooden post perches, a dish of small birdseed, and a dish of water. I've never had a bird before but the state of the cage and her welfare just doesn't seem good enough for a parrot. I would have to sit with her for as much of my day as possible while my roommate was gone or she'd scream so loud you can hear it from the parking lot of my apartment, we are on the third floor btw. I would let her nibble on stuff like the cord of my necklace or some paper napkins cause I know parrots love chewing but she was too scared of me to let me do much else. When he came home I brought up that she seems stressed and lonely all the time and he just called her a drama queen. I've brought up his bird multiple times now because she'll scream until almost midnight but he just ignores me now.

Idk if I'm being over dramatic but it's like he doesn't care about her at all. We're signed into the same lease and I can't afford the place without him so I'm not sure what to do. I looked into the SPCA for my area (Canada) which required me to file a report with a detailed description of him, his pet and our address. I'm afraid I'm overreacting and doing something that drastic would not only cause issues with us as roommates but potentially with the property managers of my apartment. Is this kind of care typical for birds like conures and am I overreacting?

Thanks in advance and apologies for slow replies, I never use reddit anymore but really want opinions from folks who own birds.

TLDR: My roommates conure gets no sunlight, no enrichment, and no socialization and I need advice on what to do

Seeking resources/advice.

A friend of mine works for a dog boarding facility in our county in Oregon. I haven’t personally been there, but the stories he tells me alone…if anyone around me ever talks about getting their pet kenneled for any reason, I very specifically deter them from this place.

The facility doesn’t have adequate staffing. This has been a common complaint among employees, but the owner just states flat out that she won’t hire anyone else if she can help it. It sound like the owner has a larger focus on the financial aspect of owning the business than the quality of their business. The owner also accepts aggressive dogs, every single dog somehow passes their behavior checklist to be boarded. The facility seems to run on this “no dog turned away” motto, but it doesn’t actually have the capacity to handle the quantity of the dogs in general let alone the ones with high behavioral needs. The people staffed to handle the dogs aren’t really trained for high risk situations, and the boss claims that safety is her biggest priority but she consistently dismisses the staff members when they ask for support.

Unfortunately it is the cheapest place in town for day and overnight boarding, so they have plenty of customers just because it’s cheaper.

Dogs get into fights pretty much every day. Dogs have been dying, I have heard about several deaths in just the last 2 months. That doesn’t seem normal to me.

My friend stays employed because he’s afraid to leave. He is one of the only people staffed that actually has the ability to handle these dogs, but he’s tried to make change internally and just gets told to “mind his business.” I feel like being in the middle of a 8 dog fight that could have been prevented with proper staffing, policy, or even just general common sense is actually 100% his business. He loves working with dogs, he loves the highly aggressive dogs just as much as the ones who are calm and don’t bite him. But he’s pretty defeated mentally from trying to do everything he can, just to have a dog die in his arms because if something that could have been prevented.

I know that human boarding facilities have rules. Daycare providers are required to meet certain standards or they could face fines and even jail in certain cases of negligence. Senior citizens in care facilities have advocates, and the state visits these places to make sure they’re maintaining proper care for their residents. I know that these systems are not perfect, and that shitty places slip through the cracks but typically once a DEATH happens there is an investigation of some kind.

Is there some kind of animal advocacy group that we should be contacting? When I google kennel laws I just get information on requirements for the size of kennel the dogs can be in.

There has to be some way to bring this to someone’s attention, someone who can make change in the facility. Or if there aren’t enough policies in place, someone who can actually facilitate a change in local/state law. There is no doubt that this is animal abuse/neglect, even if the owner has a cheery disposition towards the dogs.

Watching the boxing match rn, during Jake Paul's entry, he had a pigeon in a cage in the back of his cad that Mike Tyson didn't want. No food or water from what I saw at a quick glance, few short perches, and literally left on the back of the truck as Jake Paul entered the ring. I'm super concerned for this bird, it is being left in a neglectful and stressful situation. I'll be doing my research to see if we, the public, receive any further information, but if you guys know anything about this pigeon and where it will be going, please send it in the comments.

I have lived with my current apartment for about a year, with a roommate and her cat. I have growing concerns about her care of him, and I am not entirely sure what to do in this situation. First things first, I never lived with cats, I am not so familiar with their behaviour. The first months seemed fine, he received a lot of attention from the both of us. The apartment in general was a bit messy but nothing outrageous. Everything seemed fine and dandy. She temporarily moved away for a few months, taking the cat with her. Since she's moved back, she has changed quite a bit, and I've been really worried about his well being. First, this place has been disgusting. I work full time on top of being a full time student, where as she is unemployed in online classes. While I am gone all day almost everyday, she stays at home and trashes the place. While I don't have the free time to clean, I will pick up food waate if I see it. I've found him multiple times trying to eat at a moldy tins she threw off to the side. Secondly, she just yells at the cat. The cat will have howling fits, that to me sound almost painful. I haven't seen any other behaviour that indicates he's hurting, but he is constantly crying out like this. Her response has become to yell back at him. Not playfully, but a genuine yell of anger and annoyance. This back and forth goes on multiple times a day, any time of day. Lastly, and the part that is making me finally sit down and write this, she just physically hurt him in front of me. He had gotten on the counter and knocked over my water bottle, as cats do, and her response was the yell, grab and throw him. This cat is on paper an Emotional Support Animal. She clearly lacks the maturity and the sobriety it takes to care for any living animal. I need to know what I can do as a whitness/bystander, as the cat is obviously not mine, so I can't just take him away. She moves out in a month, and I fear the most is that she will only get worse and worse. I genuinely belive he should not be in her care, I just need to know how to step in.

Hi all- I am a graduate student studying social policy and the human-animal bond. If you were not aware, Project 2025 is the blueprint for Trump’s second term in office. I have been combing through the foundational documents that provide context to what we can expect in January. Here is one topic that will be of interest to us in animal welfare.

The Administration will begin a planned extinction of wild horses and burros on federally-managed land.

TLDR: “Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose humanely of these animals.”

Wild Horses and Burros. In 1971, Congress ordered the BLM to manage wild horses and burros to ensure their iconic presence never disappeared from the western landscape. For decades, Congress watched as these herds overwhelmed the land's ability to sustain them, crowded out indigenous plant and other animal species, threatened the survival of species listed under the Endangered Species Act, invaded private and permitted public land, disturbed private property rights, and turned the sod into concrete. BLM experts said in 2019 that some affected land will never recover from this unmitigated damage.

There are 95,000 wild horses and burros roaming nearly 32 million acres in the West-triple what scientists and land management experts say the range can sup-port. These animals face starvation and death from lack of forage and water. The population has more than doubled in just the past 10 years and continues to grow at a rate of 10 to 15 percent annually. This number includes the more than 47,000 animals the BLM has already gathered from public lands, at a cost to the American taxpayer of nearly $50 million annually to care for them in off-range corrals.

This is not a new issue-it is not just a western issue-it is an American issue. What is happening to these once-proud beasts of burden is neither compassionate nor humane, and what these animals are doing to federal lands and fragile ecosystems is unacceptable. In 2019, the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the American Veterinary Medication Association-two of the largest organizations of professional veterinarians in the world— issued a joint policy calling for further reducing overpopulation to protect the health and well-being of wild horses and burros on public lands. The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, a panel of nine experts and professionals convened to advise the BLM, endorsed the joint policy. Furthermore, animal welfare organizations such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society of the United States recognize that the prosperity of wild horses and burros on public lands is threatened if herds continue to grow unabated.

The BLM's multi-pronged approach in its 2020 Report to Congresst included expanded adoptions and sales of horses gathered from overpopulated herds; increased gathers and increased capacity for off-range holding facilities and pas-tures; more effective use of fertility control efforts; and improved research, in concert with the academic and veterinary communities, to identify more effective contraceptive techniques and strategies. All of that will not be enough to solve the problem, however.

Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose humanely of these animals.

Page 527- 528 Department of the Interior Project 2025

Why do I see so many reports of people sexual assaulting animals in Egypt? Why is that so common place there?

I want to know about the orcas that are still in seaworld, Loro Parque, marineland, or any other parks. Is there any website, youtube channel, subreddit, or anything where I can find new information regarding the welfare of orcas, belugas, and dolphins in parks/zoos?

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My girlfriend got her first dog(a puppy) two months ago. She often refers to him as like her child, and uses that as an argument that she can treat him more like a person than a dog.

Anyway, she will often make out with the dog. Like, fully start kissing him on the lips for sustained periods of time, and of course because he’s a dog and hasn’t been trained not to lick or anything, he licks back. It’s super gross to watch, the dog’s tongue will fully be be in her mouth while she’ll be kissing him and this often continues for as long as you’d expect to make out with a person.

She also lets him hump her whenever he starts to, and is VERY meticulous about cleaning his penis every time he pees. I’m pretty sure these two things wouldn’t be considered abuse? But I’m not sure.

Please help

Side note: She’s also trying to get him to be considered a therapy animal so he can be taken everywhere with her—she has a history with mental illnesses.

FYI everyone, I'm trying to raise awareness and I do not support the way this hamster is being kept in this tiny plastic enclosure.

I came across a reel on Instagram with only 4 likes, showing a Russian woman feeding this hamster some processed ham. I honestly feel so bad for him—he doesn’t even have any bedding, and his wheel is simply too small.

I'll leave a link for anyone who speaks Russian. It would be really helpful if someone could kindly explain to her how a hamster should be kept, as this seems quite cruel.

I'm not trying to get her banned or have her posts taken down, so please be respectful—she may not know any better.

Thank you!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBmHQmVga1Z/

Please flag this, this is so not right!!! They sell videos of it!!! It’s known this is one step away for freaks to privately request hard crush videos involving animals!!! Let’s flag it folks!!!

https://www.reddit.com/u/chrissyobxx/s/rTebLWoctC

In Winnipeg, Canada right now there are two separate cases of cat killers in the news.

One is about mutilated and murdered cats being found in the North End/Burrows Central/William Whyte/Point Douglas/Elmwood/West End areas. Here's a petition to sign, and the article links to more information about the case. Edit: Updated locations where the cats were found.

The other case involves a couple from the Lord Roberts area that had a torture website on the dark web.

I live in India and we have street dogs everywhere which form an integral part of the urban ecosystem here.

So there is a family in my neighborhood who rescues puppies from the streets, which is great, but they never set them free. Once they are inside their house, they trap them inside and they are domesticated and the once street dogs, never set foot in the outside world. They have done this for long and now the neighborhood is empty: not a single dog or pup is seen.

I thing this is totally wrong. I understand animals in the wild suffer. Nature is cruel. But that doesn't mean we should own them by force and strip them off their freedom.

You might ask me, do they not take care of these animals? Well they do. They feed them. They medicate them. But what they also do is, set a time for their outside activities (2 hrs a day) and the rest of the time they are confined in a little room where they spend their time sleeping (not even allowed inside the house bcz that is reserved for their expensive Great Dane breed).

Help me understand. Am I correct? Am I thinking right? I do want my street to have these animals roaming. I love them. We love them. And we are capable of taking care of them, just not possessive enough to confine them for protection. What to do next?