Name changed for this but long term member. I’m not active on Facebook but I noticed that a friend shared a post the other day where a neighbour was asking for help to find an exotic bird they keep as a pet who had ‘managed to escape out of the window’. I’m so angry at how utterly irresponsible this person has been. I won’t go into the rights and wrongs of keeping this bird in the first place (it’s not an inherited pet) but why on earth would you have this bird in a situation where it was able to ‘escape’ from a window YOU left open! It was mentioned that it can’t fly due to having certain feathers missing and it’s blatantly obvious that it has zero chance of survival… it’s been missing for 5 days. The owner is ‘so upset, shocked and worried’ and I just feel so angry with her that this even happened in the first place, wtf did she think was going to happen with an unchanged, unsupervised bird and an open window (she opened it!) , I know accidents happen but from start to finish from buying this bird to leaving the bloody window open when it was unsupervised… AIBU to think this is just awful to the point that she shouldn’t be allowed to own a bird again… I personally don’t think anyone should in the first place unless it’s a rehabilitated wild bird….. but surely there should be some repercussions here, I just can’t stand the sympathy they’re getting on Facebook because they’ve really messed up here and should be held accountable instead of being given ‘hugs’. I just feel so bad for that poor bird.