Crystal Palace mascot

[VeganO]

Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2302r04r4o
I don't know how I missed this but Palace have had a live eagle as a mascot for a number of years
Animal rights group PETA, are rightly calling on the club to stop this practice.
It is grotesque that a live wild animal is paraded in front of spectators. It's cruel & would undoubtedly cause the eagle stress. Using this beautiful creature as entertainment is incredibly sad.
I wonder where & in what condition this eagle is kept when it is not at Selhurst Park.
Shame on Palace, I say.

[Hoover Attack]

as well as a falcon embedding its talons in a spectator's scalp after landing on his head.

[Chicken Dhansak]

They'll be after our Wyverns next.

[BiggsyMalone]

Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2302r04r4o
I don't know how I missed this but Palace have had a live eagle as a mascot for a number of years
Animal rights group PETA, are rightly calling on the club to stop this practice.
It is grotesque that a live wild animal is paraded in front of spectators. It's cruel & would undoubtedly cause the eagle stress. Using this beautiful creature as entertainment is incredibly sad.
I wonder where & in what condition this eagle is kept when it is not at Selhurst Park.
Shame on Palace, I say.

Get a life

[Long slender neck]

Must be quite old and stressed if its gone bald

[Constanza]

Must be quite old and stressed if its gone bald

Thanks mate.

[Celtient]

Cyril the Swan's days are probably numbered too.

[EliotNes]

They'll be after our Wyverns next.

Love it.

[VeganO]

Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2302r04r4o
I don't know how I missed this but Palace have had a live eagle as a mascot for a number of years
Animal rights group PETA, are rightly calling on the club to stop this practice.
It is grotesque that a live wild animal is paraded in front of spectators. It's cruel & would undoubtedly cause the eagle stress. Using this beautiful creature as entertainment is incredibly sad.
I wonder where & in what condition this eagle is kept when it is not at Selhurst Park.
Shame on Palace, I say.

Get a life

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

[estaing]

Endangered species list for football clubs:

Fulham - Billy the Badger (is he protected by the Countryside Code Laws ??
Wolverhampton = The two Wolves are in danger !

Not been to Spurs recently but do they have a Cockerel ? - Ok if they do until Christmas

[Max B Gold]

I seem to recall Carlisle had a stuffed Fox on a plinth in the centre circle pre kick off.

[BiggsyMalone]

Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2302r04r4o
I don't know how I missed this but Palace have had a live eagle as a mascot for a number of years
Animal rights group PETA, are rightly calling on the club to stop this practice.
It is grotesque that a live wild animal is paraded in front of spectators. It's cruel & would undoubtedly cause the eagle stress. Using this beautiful creature as entertainment is incredibly sad.
I wonder where & in what condition this eagle is kept when it is not at Selhurst Park.
Shame on Palace, I say.

Get a life

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

In your opinion it’s cruel. How do you know the eagle doesn’t love it?

How have no idea about that animal’s living conditions, where it was born and how well it would do in the wild. Typical woke lefty ‘vegan’

[Dunners]

Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2302r04r4o
I don't know how I missed this but Palace have had a live eagle as a mascot for a number of years
Animal rights group PETA, are rightly calling on the club to stop this practice.
It is grotesque that a live wild animal is paraded in front of spectators. It's cruel & would undoubtedly cause the eagle stress. Using this beautiful creature as entertainment is incredibly sad.
I wonder where & in what condition this eagle is kept when it is not at Selhurst Park.
Shame on Palace, I say.

Get a life

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

Exactly.

Anyone can be dismissive of VeganO's concerns, but the Eagle deserves to be treated well.

God knows there's enough cruelty in the world as it it.

Let the poor creature live out its remaining years in as much comfort as possible.

Even if it means Palace displaying a replica bird instead.

[BiggsyMalone]

Get a life

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

Exactly.

Anyone can be dismissive of VeganO's concerns, but the Eagle deserves to be treated well.

God knows there's enough cruelty in the world as it it.

Let the poor creature live out its remaining years in as much comfort as possible.

Even if it means Palace displaying a replica bird instead.

I’d take this seriously if you shared the same compasion for brown people trying to live in this country

[StillSpike]

Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 2302r04r4o
I don't know how I missed this but Palace have had a live eagle as a mascot for a number of years
Animal rights group PETA, are rightly calling on the club to stop this practice.
It is grotesque that a live wild animal is paraded in front of spectators. It's cruel & would undoubtedly cause the eagle stress. Using this beautiful creature as entertainment is incredibly sad.
I wonder where & in what condition this eagle is kept when it is not at Selhurst Park.
Shame on Palace, I say.

Get a life

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

If it's captive reared then it's not a wild animal, is it? It's more akin to a pet, albeit quite an exotic one.

Birds used for falconry are all captive bred, and reared from the egg to imprint on humans. They also tend to live longer than their wild cousins.

I don't know whether this eagle enjoys the trips to the football or not as I've never seen it. If it wasn't happy, tho, it'd be flapping about and trying to fly away.

[VeganO]

People are not really dealing with the fact that this animal is being exploited, used for entertainment & is undoubtedly stressed.whether captive bred or not.
Why is it ok to use animals in this way?
I wanted to comment on Biggsy's description of me as a woke lefty vegan. He doesn't seem to understand that the term woke is not actually an insult but is used to describe awareness of injustice which is clearly a good thing. It has been misused by right wing commentators to rubbish their opponents & is frequently used by far right individuals on social media as an insult.
So Biggsy, I'd be worried if I were you about behaving like far right keyboard warriors. I also want to thank you for describing me as woke because unfortunately for you it is actually a compliment & I'm delighted to be a lefty vegan so thanks again.

[Proposition Joe]

Get a life

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

If it's captive reared then it's not a wild animal, is it? It's more akin to a pet, albeit quite an exotic one.

Birds used for falconry are all captive bred, and reared from the egg to imprint on humans. They also tend to live longer than their wild cousins.

I don't know whether this eagle enjoys the trips to the football or not as I've never seen it. If it wasn't happy, tho, it'd be flapping about and trying to fly away.

Taking the logical next step, if humans were bred in captivity, as long as it was from conception to birth, it would be OK to keep them as a pet?

[Dunners]

What bit of its cruel to keep a wild animal in captivity for entertainment do you not understand?
You think it's ok to treat a sentient creature like this? Clearly you are seriously lacking in empathy.

If it's captive reared then it's not a wild animal, is it? It's more akin to a pet, albeit quite an exotic one.

Birds used for falconry are all captive bred, and reared from the egg to imprint on humans. They also tend to live longer than their wild cousins.

I don't know whether this eagle enjoys the trips to the football or not as I've never seen it. If it wasn't happy, tho, it'd be flapping about and trying to fly away.

Taking the logical next step, if humans were bred in captivity, as long as it was from conception to birth, it would be OK to keep them as a pet?

A couple of things:

1. Does this mean it's not okay to keep any living being as a pet?

2. If, as your question implies, it's not okay to keep a human as a pet, don't you think it's a bit late to be bringing me this information now?

[Proposition Joe]

Some vegans would disagree but personally, no, I don't think it's wrong to have a pet. But I also disagree with Spike's assertion that just because something is bred in captivity, that makes it OK to assume it should be a pet, or made to do things that it wouldn't do in the wild.

[Max B Gold]

Since we are talking about the mistreatment of birds.
Walking along the Rob Roy Way (all 79.3 miles completed) recently, I was struck by the number of pheasants there were in the stretch from Killin to Pitlochry.

I did some research, and it appears they are not native birds but are bred in captivity with less welfare protection than chickens.

Over 30 million of them are released in the UK every year to be shot for "fun." Nothing much is done with the dead birds other than to bury them in large pits etc. What is wrong with people who do this?

[Hoover Attack]

Since we are talking about the mistreatment of birds.
Walking along the Rob Roy Way (all 79.3 miles completed) recently, I was struck by the number of pheasants there were in the stretch from Killin to Pitlochry.

I did some research, and it appears they are not native birds but are bred in captivity with less welfare protection than chickens.

Over 30 million of them are released in the UK every year to be shot for "fun." Nothing much is done with the dead birds other than to bury them in large pits etc. What is wrong with people who do this?

Don’t let the countryside alliance see you writing this.

Of course they’re not native, they were imported from Asia. You could tell from their colourings they’re not from around here originally, like your grouse or your partridge or peacock.

[Celtient]

I was, undoubtedly, Miss McDonald's pet in Primary 4. Not sure how I feel about this now

[Token]

I’d happily be a humans pet if it meant I never had to work my whole life but still got fed, watered, housed in the warm, took on holidays and got a healthcare plan.

Blimey, I could even go out on the street naked and shout at people I didn’t like the look of. Paradise

[MalvoliO]

I’d happily be a humans pet if it meant I never had to work my whole life but still got fed, watered, housed in the warm, took on holidays and got a healthcare plan.

Blimey, I could even go out on the street naked and shout at people I didn’t like the look of. Paradise

Sounds like the average attendee at a pro-Palestine march.

[VeganO]

I’d happily be a humans pet if it meant I never had to work my whole life but still got fed, watered, housed in the warm, took on holidays and got a healthcare plan.

Blimey, I could even go out on the street naked and shout at people I didn’t like the look of. Paradise

Sounds like the average attendee at a pro-Palestine march.

That's really pathetic attempted humour bearing in mind your history of posts on here re Israel.
Even in a thread re animal rights, you rubbish Palestine.
Honestly, what is the matter with you?