I’ve seen a cockatoo once who would go crazy for one of his owner’s old slippers, courting and then fucking it. The most the owner did was to buy herself a new pair of slippers, and leave the old one so the bird could have his fun.

I guess the idea of punishing him never went through her mind. Or mine, really; c’mon, birds don’t understand decorum, and the whole thing was hilarious and obviously harmless to the bird.

I guess I’ll have to stop choking my chicken, then.

Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished. It’s interesting how humanity has regulated its own biological behavior, we have rules for where and how to eat, sleep, defecate, urinate, menstruate, reproduce, masturbate, etc. I get that some of these came from hygiene and personal safety but still find it weird, and even weirder that some people expect birds to follow our social constructs.

Who, pray tell, is suggesting birds be punished for it?