[Cindy Q]

I don't like it either. Treating animals like commodities or property. Now if there is still some type of screening process to go along with the trade and in the end your best interest lie in the home the bird ends up in rather then your new chihuahua or whatever you've "traded" it for (like a car) then I suppose it makes me feel better about it but in general I think the person trading out their current pet might be more interested in what they stood to gain as opposed to where their "property" ended up or its feelings about losing its current home or whether it would remain where it were going .