Every day.Every day I'm subjected to "cute" or "funny" videos of pet birds interacting with cats or dogs or ferrets. For the last time internet people:
These.Are.NOT. Cute.
No matter how trained the animals are or how "friendly" the interactions look to humans-and they frequently are not- anyone who's making these is actively endangering their bird- and possibly also their dog/cat for likes.
Cats and dogs are not only predators, they can easily kill a bird through normal play behaviours as well- one hard smack from a cat can be enough to kill or severely injure something like a budgie or a cockatiel.and I'm not even talking about things like play biting here.
And even the friendliest best trained most passive cat might not be able to resist their natural instinct to chase birds. One slip up is enough.
On top of that cat saliva contains bacteria that are toxic to birds.
Please stop. Don't like these, don't reblog these, and most definitely do not make these.