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My parrot eats pellets -- the equivalent of a nutritionally complete premium dog kibble, I reckon. Of course he gets (and even occasionally deigns to eat) fresh fruits and veggies, but even parrot experts advise a pellet diet. That is terribly sad, but we can't meet his needs otherwise, so it's another example of how awful it is to keep exotic animals as captive pets.

Speaking of birds, a parrot flock calls to each other so they know where everybody is when they aren't in view of each other. They're prey, unlike owls who are predators, so keeping tabs on each other is important to survival. Still, it's possible your owls are just yelling "hey, where you at? I'm over here," "I'm over here, where are you?" "I'm still over here, you still over there?" all night long.

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What a good point...that domesticated animals are already eating processed foods! The ingredient list on what you might feed a parrot is So Long! https://caitec.com/pages/oven-fresh-bites-ingredients (But the alternative is I guess buying live or frozen animals and feeding it that way, which may go against a vegan person. Is that correct?

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Parrots aren't carnivorous/omnivorous though some will eat insects occasionally. They eat nuts, seeds, and fruits/berries that are indigenous to their regions. In Africa my parrot would be eating a lot of oil palm fruit. (By scattering seeds and fruits, parrots provide important ecosystem services to keep the ground-dwellers fed and to replenish the flora of the forest floor.)

If you keep raptors as pets (falcons, vultures, other carnivores) then you'd be obligated to feed them a species-appropriate diet such as rodents. Vegans feed their companion animals the best diet for their species. Imposing our own ethical choices on a carnivore under our care, to the detriment of that animal's health, is definitely not a thing vegans do.

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