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Bragging Rights !

Recently we have joined a network of rescues all across North American which is helping to place even more parrots into loving homes.  It is also helping us to bounce ideas and advice off one another to assist each other.

During several discussions, I realized what a great job we have been doing in placing parrots into permanent homes.  Several rescues (US) were discussing the number of returned birds after placement two rescues responded that they had place 500 parrots in the past 10 yrs (very similar stats to our own) they have had 100 parrots returned to them! That is over 20% where the birds have to be relocated a second or even third time!

In our twelve years of operation, we have placed over 600 parrots into new homes and have only had 7 returned!  We had no idea how good we were doing until we got the statistics from some of these other rescues!  That is only 1%.  Although a zero return rate would be perfect, we did not realize how extraordinary that was and definitely worthy of bragging about!  Given that many of the birds arrive here with behavior problems, plucking issues etc we are very lucky that our numbers are this low.

We are now offering tips to other rescues to help them decrease the number of birds that are returned to them through behaviour modifications and screening processes.

Burby – Goffins Cockatoo

Baby Burby is a small female Goffins cockatoo, she is 19 yrs old and very plucked.  She has been with the same owner since hatched.  She says Hi Baby Burby and seems to prefer women.  We are hoping to see some feather growth in the next couple of weeks.  She is very sweet but shy.

New Reference Letters

Email recieved June 29, 2009 Posted with Permission

Hi Nancy,

I was just wondering how Burby is doing? She has been on our minds and it was a bit of a rough weekend without her little noises, sounds and little body in my kitchen. It’s certainly going to take time to get used to this…….thank you for just being so wonderful with my daughter Sam and I when we dropped her off. It truly is a very special gift that you have, not only with beautiful creatures, but also humans and their hearts as well.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that she loves bells in her cage to play with and also loves to eat the bone marrow out of chicken bones…..

Many love and blessings to you and we will keep in touch,

Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts…..

Nadene

Don’t Forget – Come see the Parrots in Kingston on Sunday

We will be with the Kingston Humane Society and St Lawrence College on Sunday from 12 – 4 pm Across from the City Hall.