Birds are Not Suitable as Pets

BIRDS ARE NOT SUITABLE AS PETS.

All birds have a cloaca. Cloaca is the Latin word for open sewer. Cloaca is the posterior opening that serves as the only opening for the intestinal tract, reproductive tract, and urinary tract of certain animal species. All amphibians, birds and reptiles possess this opening, from which they excrete both urine and feces, unlike mammals. Other pets such as dogs possess two (or three) separate orifices for excretion. The manure of birds is a mixture of urine and feces, an emulsion, which quickly dries out and give rise to the spread of suspended dust particles in the indoor environment. You may culture everything from bird droppings, because so many infectious diseases can be passed from birds onto humans. Keeping tropical birds indoors and pigeons could be responsible for more serious diseases than one might think. For bird breeders, often with large numbers of tropical birds, songbirds and / or pigeons, different genetic types of Chlamydia circulate. Chlamydia psittacosis has adapted in Western Europe and ornithosis and Chlamydia pneumonia were the result of this. When birds are crowded into small places, with inadequate food and lack of sunlight, their latent infection is lit up. The Chlamydia multiplies and is excreted in large amounts. It float out of the cages along with downy feathers, powdered dung, and contaminate dust. People inhale it and can become ill. No government  is likely to prohibit the sale of birds, nor even to insist they be kept under decent conditions.