As a bird lover, this made me cry. How can you leave an innocent bird in the trash. You know they're fragile animals and you can't just leave it alone. I have no words for this.

I have 9 budgies and this video just makes me so sad that people could do this to such innocent creatures, Rest In Peace to the budgies who weren’t found and rescued

People treat animals like THINGS. 🤬 It's beyond my undrestanding.

Disgusting! How can people be so cruel to these poor little birds? The pet stores have a lot to answer for but it won't happen unfortunately. They'll deny all knowledge! And as for the hoarders, they should be fined and banned from owning any pets for life!!

I - I always thought that people who are working at pet stores are kind and care for birds...but this is a new level of cruelty 😦

That just sucks. Respect to the people who rescued the budgies!

I literally ended up crying to this. Pet shops here don't care at all. There was that one pet shop that had parakeets, and all of them had mites and the other half were lying dead on the cages- We confronted them many times and nothing-- And in another one they threw a sick parakeet in a trash bin in front of me. At this point I wish humanity didn't exist. No creature deserves this sick treatment. They are just like us. They deserve love and care and family and I am really glad people who try to help all of these animals exist.

I am DISGUSTED by how they treat these elegant calm birds. I hope this never happens in the future

I guarantee it was a customer and not an employee that threw that bird away. I worked at Petsmart and we would find abandoned animals at our front door, back door, even in our dumpsters. I once found a Rottweiler puppy in a dora the explorer plastic container that was thrown in our dumpster.

Hi, used to work at a small family pet store! This is unconscionable behavior on a chain pet store's part, the one that was found in a box with several bowls however was probably forgotten about with the speed that they are forced to work at within these stores, and was likely an accident. That was a shipping box from the breeder. There is NO reason to throw away a live bird however, and the ones found in the carrying boxes were absolutely abandoned, since most stores won't take live animal returns.

This is very upsetting. I can’t imagine me thinking,”Let me throw my bird in the dumpster.”

I genuinely think that my rescue budgie Indie may have been one of the ones released in Texas. It's a big state, so maybe not, but it's a possibility. My mom found her just walking down the street in our neighborhood, and managed to catch her. We tried to find the owner, but were never able to, which made me believe that she had been released. She unfortunately died recently, which has been really hard, but it is so heartbreaking that so many others are treated this way!

This is just heart breaking how do the employees have a heart to do such a thing 💔 😔

I just can’t imagine how some people are just like this at all😔💔💔. Like some of them are saved but most of them couldn’t. Thanks to those heroes out there saving this little feather friends.

We recently visited a pet store, and this video makes me wanna jump into a dumpster to look for any live animals that were thrown in there. Poor birds :(

I own 2 birds that are budgies and I am a bird lover too and..this made me cry knowing that people do this to little innocent birds that don’t deserve to be treated that way I honestly don’t know why people think it’s ok to do that they might be just birds but they have a life too

It breaks my heart seeing people do this. these sweet budgies don’t deserve any of this and I hate how misunderstood and mistreated many birds are each day and I hope to see one day that we can live in a society where nothing like this happens animals aren’t objects and should be treated with love.

One time I saw someone releasing a budgie in person. I tried to get to the budgie, but I couldn’t find it. Later I discovered it on the ground, and.. it’s wings were clipped. It’s wings were clipped. That budgie is now named Kevin, and he’s living a good life with me.

I had budgies as a kid and nobody taught me how to properly handle them when I was young so I basically abused them. I had to learn the hard way but now whenever I think about it it makes me very sad and I cry.

As somebody who worked for PetSmart from 2007 to 2011, that has to either be a recent thing or it's some bad apples somewhere. Nobody I knew that works there would have thrown away live animals and one of the managers there actually let me take a $15 zebra Finch to an exotic bird hospital because it needed it.

Today while i was cleaning the avm windows i saw a sick pigeon. It was so cold in the morning so poor thing was probably having a hypothermia so i gently picked him up, took off my beanie and put him inside. Suprisingly he didnt even try to run away from me. it was seeking a helping hand. Like 15, 25 minutes later on the way to him he flew away. I was happy because he had recovered, I was sad because I did not have the opportunity to pet him :p

This made me so sad , I live in Germany and i have two budgies in January I worked for two weeks in a pet store and there was a budgie and she can’t fly the people always asked me if the bird is ill and the boss of the pet store say that the bird is going to die if nobody buys her . And since February she live with a new budgie friend at the house of my friend as a birthday present for me . I’m so happy to have friends that save this cute birds

That is soo cruel! It was so heartbreaking. Don't they have humanity?? I'm angry and sad at the same time. :(

Why people is being cruel to this beautiful little birds 😟. I hope this video reaches to the right people to take action against this cruelty to pet animals

#SaveTheBudgies!

I have two Budgies of my own, I love them dearly and take care of them so much. It angers me how people mistreat Budgies let a lone any bird as innocent as they are, how can they even do such a thing to these amazing beings. They are so loving once you get to know them and they get to know you, like a family.

I have a pair of budgies, and two canaries and zebra finches and this video make me confirm of how cruel people can be, my lovely birds live happy with me and if I found birds in the trash one day I will rescue them, they suffer every time people do that to them, please protects budgies and other types of birds from these abusers

I have a parrot, but if i found a parakeet in a trash box, I'D LOVE HIM FOREVER.

This needs to stop, NOW! Let's put some focus on smaller pets and get them some help. Their lives matter too. Not just dogs and cats.

Thanks for raising awareness

Reminds me of the little Ilios. We had visited this petshop looking for a budgie and there were three budgies. One of them had missing feathers and looked sick we got one of them. We named her Ilios which means "sun" in Greek. Soon I found out that her one nail along with a toe was missing and her beak was mishaped making it extremely difficult for her to feed. Ilios was so sweet, friendly and such a delicate budgie. It was obvious that it had been mistreated in the petshop and was quite sick. We took her to wet, it was said that she was ill and there was too little hope that she would survive. We gave her the medicine the vet gave and loved her and tried to be there for her in her last days. One day we found her helplessly shaking, it was clear that these were her last moments, as tears running down my face I tried to be there for her and calm her. We lost her that night, not even got a chance to rush to a vet. I still cry when I remember her, how sweet and how love deprived she had been. She was abused in ways we know not of. Perhaps she was forced to breed many times, perhaps deprived of the most basic necessities. Please love your little friends while they are still with you. Afterwards I visited the petshop and saw that most birds were sick, put outside in stinking, small cages when wind was blowing hard, and many did not have water and seeds. That shop and many more should be shut down... these poor creatures do not deserve such appaling treatments!

My budgie likes your voice when I play your videos she starts being super chatty and chirping back at you as you talk ❤️

This is abuse! No one deserves this!!!

I love birds so much, and seeing this made me cry. :( How could people do these awful things?!

My nephew lived in the Dallas area there was a huge nest of budgies a block from his house. They build their nests around power line transformers for warmth. They have been there for 20 years

Thanks for making this, just by watching this video it has made me think of how I can help my community with tropical birds.

That is really sad! Those poor budgies! Luckily I didn’t buy mine from a pet store

OMG, and I thought our pet store, where I work in, is abusive, because we don't give our parrots as much veggies, natural perches (they have one for each cage) and toys as we should, and the vet comes only once a week... :o But this is insane, dude. When I notice even a slightest sign of parakeets being sick, I immediately seek help for them and my manager agrees 100% with me, and we put all our birds into quarantine in the same cage they're being kept, not to put them into more stress. We even put a large corrector-written-on-a-glass sign "QUARANTINE", so that people don't ask for the birds to buy them. But throwing live budgies into the dumpster... OMG.

This is heartbreaking. I'm so glad that these people were able to help most of the birds. I wish I could rescue all of these little sweethearts. 😢

Absolutely heartbreaking. They may be tiny, but hold the intelligence and emotional capacity often beyond most dogs

I got my first budgie from PetSmart since I didn’t have a breeder nearby at the time. The one I got was sick. I didn’t know, I was a new bird owner. My budgie only lived a week before dying. It’s appalling how these stores treat their animals like objects.

Some people on this planet do not deserve to breathe the same air as those helpless creatures. The lack of humanity from some people makes me sad and wonder where this level of cruelty ends?? Thanks for what you do appreciate it from N.W. England.

Sadly - cruelty to pets is still very common - thanks for helping to change that ! ❣♥💗

Glad your here to help raise awareness!!

In our town we are lucky because the owner of pet store is very nice young man who adore all animals. His parents are vets and have clinic in the next building about 50m. He brings sick animals to his parents to heal them. They adore budgies and cockotails and in the most cases they adopt them when they get better. I adopted 1 budgie too before 8 years. Thanks god for good owner of pet shop.

At the pet store where I live, they're really bad at clipping the wings of budgies and parakeets, they either clip there skin, or don't clip them at all (PS I don't get my budgies wings clipped at all because I think it's cruel)

I worked in petland and sick budgies were given meds that the petshop had for sale. But the vet wasnt called but they got well

SO HORRIBLE I COULDNT EVEN WATSH THIS soo sad after i watched it i was so angry that they do that to the poor little birds!!! What have they done to people they do nothing their harmless

Omg, Thats soo Heart breaking and really sad, They are abusing the poor budgies:(

Budgies are just such innocent and cute little creatures. When my buggies mated, I nearly fainted of how cute the little babies were. Not just cute, they are great friends. How could people do this too them?

I shared this video on my tumblr page. I want to raise awareness on this horrible crime against all animals. I’m still in shock that anyone could do this to a cute adorable innocent sweet budgie!

I’ve had the same experience once i was a kid my parents bought me a parakeet from Pet Store and they made us pay 200 dollars and he was sick the next day we found out we went back and complained ,they gave us Medicean and it made the poor soul die

Salvador budgie, My bird who is 5 years old died today, can you make a budgie video to cheer me up, this just made me more sad, I have buried my budgie and the reason she died is because another one of my birds bit him to death):

I have two budgies and it makes me really sad to see the way people act with their pets. Pets have feelings too, and they can get sad and scared too. It just hurts me that people forget this.

This makes me want to cry out of how innocent they are! Some people don't deserve budgies :(

people always say to me release the birds I have but I don't I just release them in my room don't release your birds

This is painful to watch. I love my budgie with all my heart. I almost cried watching this. Now I want to go to my local petsmart and check for any budgies. And I have a few questions: Is it OKAY to have just one budgie without another friend? And is it okay to bring my budgie roaming around my dinner table while me and my family eats and he looks around for some seeds we hide from him scattered around the table? If you can respond that would be awesome. I really need to pay respect for you to bringing the attention of this. No animal should be mis-treated like this. Even the ones you hate.

This is why I'm afraid to sell or give away any of my budgies. They are not trash or snake food. Also some people tire of them and turn them loose, thinking they are doing a good thing, but the little birds will starve or become hawk or cat food. Thank you for posting this, although it's so heartbreaking. 😢😢😢

Can I give some well deserved praise to Pets Domain, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. We are regular customers and have bought budgies from them before. They had a little blue grey english budgie out the back unwell in a cage on his own, he wasn’t picking up. We offered to buy him and give him a chance. They were going to get their vet nurse employee to take him to the vet but gave him to us for free. Poor little guy was traumatised by a very, very severe wing clip done by the breeder, he also had a head injury. We took him to the vet, advice electrolytes in his water, special rescue liquid food, warmth, tiny dose of painkiller. He survived, now called Munchkin and recovering although I doubt his damaged wing will ever recover. He’s taming down, now has a “nurse” bird companion,a gentle lady called Possum. The staff at Pet’s Domain ask after him whenever we visit and are thrilled he’s improving.

UGH THEY ARE SO CUTE AND I HOPE THEY STOP HURTING THE BIRDS 😢

Ty for telling me I will adopt all the store birds they deserve good owners

i love your vids good job you help the all the bird owners

Sameth8ng happend to me. There was a budgie on the side of the road throwed out by the woman on the other side of the street. When we found the bird. It was very very weak. We fed her and gave her some water. She is way better now. As I'm typing this. She's on my shoulder right now

This is animal abuse... people need to stop abusing these budgies!!

I’ve always been an animal lover. I cannot believe people would do this to adorable animals 😔

Omg thank you for teaching me how to take care of my bird mango he’s a budgie and now I know what to do. Now I’m subscribed to you and light.

Oh no... 😭 People are the worst. 🥺 I feel so sad, angry and hurt all at the same time right now. 😢

honestly, when you said “even in pet stores” honestly really true. when we went to the pet store to pick our baby parrot and 3 budgies, they were good i was looking at small birds and saw a dead one. it seemed like the owners did not care. when they came they just got him and threw him out somewhere as its trash.. this is awful honestly.

*Disgusting* Does only pet co (or something) does this cuz then I'm going with knife to that manger

I have 2 budgies, And seeing budgies in the trash and having horrible people caring for them really hurts my heart, I hope alot of these types of people go behind bars for a long time

I feel like crying 😢. I used to have budgies but they died even though we visited the vet almost every day and now I am looking at people who know their budgies are sick but not taking them to vets.

I love my birds more than the world could know. Seeing this, it made me cry a LOT. It really hurts my feelings how they treat these poor buddies..For the first clip.. LIKE CAN'T YOU JUST GIVE AWAY THE BUDGIES INSTEAD OF THROWING THEM AWAY, IT'S NOT THAT HARD! For the second clip.. The owner should have either gotten them a bigger place, or just given them away. Why keep a budgie when you can't care for it?! For the third clip.. This person is a horrible person, he should have googled to see if domesticated budgies can survive in the wild. My budgies are free flighted, so that's ok, but these poor budgies, they probably dont know whats going on..Poor budgies This is all my opinion, not necessarily everyone would agree with me, and thats ok

This is just disgusting... I think it could also be the buyers doing this. I'm absolutely disgusted by this and now I just want to go to all the local pet stores and search through the dumpsters frantically for any sign of life.

we humans are so vunerable of our emotions that we cannot control our actions . thanks to those gems out there who are saving them

I'm a big bird fan, this made me cry for hours, a bird dead, a bird in trash,and much more bad this may all of them havea good life

This just made my heart broken for budgies , because how can people PEOPLE throw these birds if they bought it for nothing am a muslim and I take care of my budgies and can you make a vid of how to take care a female budgie? and also in the Quran it said that " If a man kills or torture an animal , they are a disbeliever and does not like Allah and in the Day of judgement (aka the day of resurrection) the animal will say "O Allah! this man killed me in vein and tortured me in Vein" so it means that if you mistreat animals of pets then you are in Hell"

It's pathetic that this happens at all at pet stores. I swear, it would be more humane to stomp them to death (DON'T DO THIS). At my local Pet Supply Plus, they give discounts on the old animals that haven't been sold.

That sucks. When I buried my dead birds, I got sad because it was raining and cold outside and I wanted to take them in and out of the ground and wrap them up in a blanket and pet their little heads as if they were alive. People throw living birds away??!

Im going to have to keep a eye on the Petco store near Here. 😱, BABIES IN THE TRASH !!! 😭😭😭 SO NOT GOOD. THERE IS A CITY NEARBY HERE WHERE THERE EXISTS A BIG TRIBE OF RELEASED BUDGIES. WHEN I ASKED THE GUY FOR THE EXACT LOCATION , HE WOULDN'T TELL ME. 😞👌THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS HEART BREAKING NEWS. 😳👌

As a bird person this is definitely cruel and outraging.

I cannot believe my eyes!! How can people do this to birds? It’s so awful! These birds deserve the treatment, honestly! To whoever did this before or now: You are a horrible person, Have you even noticed what you have done?! This is very awful and cruel of what you did, You should be thinking about what you’ve done. (Back to the other part) Honestly as a bird lover, I would never do this to my budgies this is very abusive.. I really hate when people do these types of things, It’s so shocking to see this. To all the people out there: Never do this! Just think about it.. Would you do this? This is called “animal abuse.” (Back again) These pet stores take ABSOLUTE no care in budgies!! It just breaks my heart to see these little, cute, and innocent birds found in the FREAKING DUMPSTER!! This is absolutely unacceptable- I hope this comes to a solution soon, Poor budgies. ): -Izzy

I have two sweet pet budgie parakeets named Daxter and Veger, and I love them so much and care for them!❤💕 This makes me feel very sad when I see these poor innocent little birds being thrown away, killed, dying from illness, or being released into the wild!💔😪😭😢 This is why we need to give and show these poor, cute little birds love! ❤💕❤

LITTERALY yesterday i found a yellow and green budgie IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD we found her and she was very very weak we fed her and she was really and i mean REALLY hungry she ate 2 spoon fulls of seed mix,we actually have two other budgies named mordecai and avocado. We put her inside of their cage and they bit her head so we just bought another cage! She is well and energetic. We named her lemon

My parakeet and I are absolutely scared on what people do. I am so glad Crystal and I are good friends.

how could they do this to those poor birds,this is just sad.respect to those people who saved the birds they will be blessed.

My budgie was sleeping on my shoulder when I was watching this video and this literally breaks my heart how Can people do that with no reason?!

This made me cry how can anybody be so mean and throw a bird away I have budgies myself and I love them so much 😢

You deserved my sub bro ❤️🙂

THE WAY THIS GETS ME SO ANGRY like... the poor birds

Me and my family found a scared budgie whit no feathers on his chest he was waiting in our balcony door for somebody to open the door and hopefully help him we were able to treat him with food water and a house now he lifes happily at our house but he is still recovering some of hes feathers qnd all we can hope for is that he lifes the rest of hes time as a happy bird on a warm place to stay

As a bird owner, I couldn’t hold my tears. I had to cry. Why do birds live in such a cruel world? I think they should have their own galaxy and earth where it’s perfect for them but no.

As I’m watching this my two budgies are napping in their cage next to me. How can people do this to such precious, amazing animals? My birdies give me so much happiness, this just breaks my heart

I took care of multiple birds in past, and I cried so badly when my budgie died between my hands.. it makes sad when I see people throw their birds away like a toy.

When he said, "I have a new friend." I lost it🥺😥😢

I hope the people that did these things get hit with karma for the cruel and disgusting things they did. I'm simply appalled! I know people say you shouldn't get your budgies at stores like Pet Co, but I'm glad I got my budgie (Binxx) from there before he was abused like that! I love Binxx so much and can't even imagine ever doing anything like that to him! 😥

as a budgie owner this made me almost cry especially the one where the manager didint care about it

People should treat everyone with respect! This is just beyond awful

A sad sadistic lonely ending for such affectionate intelligent feathered people.

imagine how many of these cases go unnoticed

The snake eating the budgie one shattered me