pearl wrote:

>>>>I lived with a cockatiel who regularly masturbated on my hand.
>>>>Poor little guy, he was never going to have another bird as a mate,
>>>>he was quite old when I adopted him, and he was definitely oriented
>>>>toward humans. Why should I make his last few years less pleasant
>>>>for him by denying him this release, when it did him no harm, and it
>>>>did me no harm?
>>>
>>>Good grief, Karen Winter! The OBVIOUS and CORRECT thing to
>>>do would have been to adopt a FEMALE cockatiel! *That* would
>>>have been the *respectful* thing to do.
>>
>>Since when has Karen been respectful of anyone or anything?
>
> Since always.

No. Never. Everything she's told us about herself -- abandoning her
child, tearing apart her family, tearing apart her church -- shows that
the only person who or thing that matters to her is her.

> I think she was/is mistaken, but we're all learning.

She's not trying to learn, she's trying to teach -- and what she wants
to teach the world, about molesting animals and children, is depraved
and sick.

>>>Wrongly thinking that it was
>>>just ok to enable the aberrant behaviour resulted in him missing out,
>>
>>Yeah, but she got some...
>
> How very respectful of you .. not.

It's called sarcasm.

> A fine example you are .. not!

[insert Lesley's list here...]

>>>not only the opportunity to engage in their natural courtship, etc., but
>>>every other facet of meaningful association with one of his own kind!
>>
>>That's irrelevant to a navel-gazing perv like Karen.
>
> It is certainly irrelevant to a factory 'farming' supporter like you.

You object to consumption of *all* meat, so your arguments against
so-called "factory" farming are specious and beside the point.