When you have pets, you need to make sure that you take care of them and protect them from things as much as you can, including from visitors.

What would you do if you had birds, so when family was coming over you put them in your locked bedroom, but then their two kids broke in and ended up getting bitten?

That is what happened to the bird owner in this story, and now her relatives are mad at her that the birds weren’t in their cage.

Check out the details on this one.

AITA for not caging my birds when my relatives visited?

I (21M) have 2 cockatiels, Mordy and Charmy, they are both male and old. I have to give some context about them for the story to make more sense.

Every bird is different.

Charmy as his name suggests is very friendly and loves affection.

He can get anxious at times but generally he allows himself to be touched and carried around with no problem, however Mordy isn’t the same

He is missing half of his right wing, and so he can’t fly, not to mention he is missing a few toes, and this may have been done by his previous owner who gave him up.

That poor bird.

Point is, Mordy has had a rough past before me and it definitely still affects him to this day. He is very specific about who he trusts and lets handle him.

There are days where even I can’t touch him, so it’s entirely dependent on his mood.

All of my family is aware of his problems and understand it completely and never push to hold him if he doesn’t want to be.

Sounds like a nice setup for them.

The birds have a cage that opens up on the top, and they just like perching up there.

They don’t tend to fly off and aren’t startled by people walking by them so they’re generally very calm.

They are completely fine with the majority of my family (they visit me frequently enough that they are used to them).

The birds don’t recognize these visitors.

The problem however was with my German relatives that came to visit. Now, I barely know these people, I haven’t met them prior to this incident, so I wasn’t sure what to expect.

They came to my house last Friday as they were hanging out with my parents and aunt, and they all decided to drop by.

My house was very crowded as a result and so I opted to move my birds to my bedroom, but I kept the top of their cage open as always because they don’t like being caged in.

He took all reasonable precautions.

Keep in mind, I locked my bedroom

The topic of my birds came up during conversation and the two kids who I’ll call Jan(11M) and Judy(9F) lit up and began asking if they could see and hold them.

You have to be really careful with kids and pets.

I told the kids no, they dropped the topic afterwards. They went to the living room to play and I thought this was the end of it.

Around 10 minutes later we heard a scream coming from my room, and when I rushed in there I found Jan and Judy by my birds.

This is way out of line.

Apparently the two got into my room and unlocked it so they all could play with my birds. Mordy ended up biting Judy, and Charmy got scared and flew away.

How about you get upset at your kids breaking into a room!

The parents obviously flew into an outrage and started asking me why would I not cage my ‘rabid birds’.

My parents were quick to defend me saying if their kids had listened to me and not gone into my bedroom, they wouldn’t have ended up bitten.

Judy’s bite was treated but the parents were still upset and left.

Just tell the relatives to never come back.

Now, my family doesn’t think I was in the wrong at all but my mother is getting a lot of backlash from the parents and other relatives (as they are from her side) since the incident so she asked me if I could apologize to keep the peace but I don’t want to.

It took me 30 minutes to calm the birds down after they left and I’m worried this might have negatively affected Mordy.

So, AITA?

These kids were out of line for disobeying and for breaking into the bedroom.

The parents should be mad at them, not the birds!

Check out the comments below to see what other people have to say about it.

I don’t see how the parents can be mad at him.

These kids broke into his room and deserved to get bit.

This commenter went through something similar.

Maybe the parents should teach their kids respect.

Exactly, they were ‘caged’ in a locked room.

Maybe getting bitten will teach these kids a lesson.

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