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Exotic Bird Sanctuary/Education Incorporation

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News Alerts

This page is for news alerts in the parrot world that we hear about or the public may send us. We believe that disease testing every parrot that comes here is very important. Do not let people tell you they can look at a parrot and tell you if it is sick or not. When adopting parrots from a rescue, it is their responsibility to get the parrots tested before they are adopted out.

Rescues will tell you it is your responsibility to get the parrot tested. This is wrong. What about the other parrots they have in their care? What they are saying is we get the parrot free, and we will take your adoption fee of example $800.00 for doing nothing. That is a good days pay.

Rescues are set up to help the animals not profit from the animals. Another tip is never pay cash when adopting a parrot. If you do pay, cash get a receipt.

*ADOPTION ALERT*

Parrots For Adoption But Owners State In A Room They Are Not Adoptable.

We have have been asked by people that know about this rescue and now that we have proof from 2 chat group postings. One is stating parrots for adoption posted in a breeding room. The other posted in another group stating they are not adoptable by the owners of the rescue.. This only proves they want money, they don't care as they state about the parrots. They once again have posted in the same group same parrots. They have around 35 parrots now for adoption they say. Money value is about $10,000 and we could be low. Easy money for doing nothing.

Please be very careful when adopting from this rescue. My main concern as many other people is you have no clue if the parrot has a disease or not. You might think your doing a good thing but you could also be spreading a disease around that could kill any animals you may have at home. Remember diseases are airborne.

-----Original Message-----

In abird4sale@yahoogroups.com, N. D. <nancy@...> wrote:

We have many birds available for adoption. These are for pet only homes.
More information about each bird is posted on our website. If interested,
please fill out the adoption application on the website.

2 Double Yellow Headed Amazons
1 Yellow Fronted Amazon
1 Yellow Shouldered Amazon
1 Red Lored Amazon
1 Eastern Rosella
1 Umbrella Cockatoo female
4 Parrotlets greens and blues
4 love birds
11 cockatiels various mutations some hand tame and talking
1 White capped Pionus
1 Severe Macaw
1 Cherry Headed Conure
1 Male Alexandrine
N. D.

Now here is a posting from the owners of the rescue stating that the above parrots are in fact not adoptable from what they state.

-----Original Message-----

--- In birds4saleincanada@yahoogroups.cc, N. D. <nancy@...> wrote:

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to foster aggressive birds out?
Specially the large birds. The one catalina lunges at everyone but Brett
but as soon as he goes to touch her she starts moaning and panting. She did
rip the top of his finger off once also. To top that off she is feathering
up but mostly bald. The blue and gold is so underweight and will never get
her feathers back due to the follicle damage but she is getting better for
us. The two timnehs are not so great. Both males, badly plucked, I have
managed to finally get them both to step up but are unpredictable and will
bite once they get on you.

The yellow collar macaw is the worst. He wants
no human contact with anyone other that 2 people I have seen but due to the
look of him, neither were interested as he is missing feathers from his
cheek patches down and all around his neck. Some are starting to grow back
but not sure how many he will get. ALL of their hormones are just below the
surface and panting starts almost instantly with touching.

Eventually we will have success with these birds but it will probably take a
couple of years. We finally win them over and fix them and they bond to us
only we have to rehome them again. It is harmful and I would like to see
the practice stopped.

Why not just buy breeders rather than turn these poor pet birds into
something they are not. It all boils down to saving a few bucks or getting a free bird.

N.D

Scam Alerts

We have yet un-covered another fundraising scam that this rescue has tried to cover up like the auction scam. This was posted in Abirdsforsale yahoo group which is for breeders buying and selling parrots. They also post alot in here that they have parrots for adoption. Not sure why when they know this is a breeders room, put to and to together? Posted as a fundraiser not sure what for what.

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No winner was ever mention and when asked by several people the rescue stated it was no ones business. Many people have ask about all the $1,000's dollars raised by the auction that was suspose go towards a building for parrots but again the money never went to that as there is no building. The public need to ask questions as to where all this money has gone. These people are in fact using the parrots so they can live. If not where is the building, and who won the trips.

Adopt At Your Own Risk

Beware of Parrot Rescue Near Peterborough, Ontario.

Last month we posted about a parrot rescue that was adopting parrots out that in fact by the owners post in another group were not adoptable. This out raged allot of people. We got some real nasty e-mails from people that remember them when they were in Oshawa. Others said the place was just a disease pit. Some even commented on how they tortured a parrot named Dung by removing its wing.

We also got a phone call from a group of people who are so out raged they have been researching and have stumble across some things that they feel the public should be aware of. Something they feel the rescue would like to forget. Raising the Roof Auction - 2006-07-21. This was nothing but a scam they pulled off. From their own website “quote” (Blank Rescue) volunteers have teamed together to host a Raising the Roof Auction on September 23, 2006 at 11am. All proceeds will go towards the new 20 ft by 40 ft aviary that will house the large birds at the rescue. This group said the problem is no building was ever built, and the money was gone within days, Thousands of dollars and they can't account for any of it.

They wonder how something like this happen and no one says anything. Or is it the rescue would like people to forget about it. This rescue claims they are not for profit, but the group checked it out and they are not register. They were told anyone can say that, it is up to the public to so their research. Thousand of dollars has gone through this rescue. One lady said the government does not pay much each month and from the looks of it the owners are living off the backs of these parrots. This is a shame and the public should be out raged.

Four years later and still no building has been built. They have defrauded 131 companies and had no intentions in the first place to build anything.
Even Habitat for Humanity got scammed for an item. This is pretty low one lady said scamming Habitat for Humanity. These people only care how they can get money nothing else.

Breeder Has Struck Again

If people remember the story about Ozzie and the breeder that was involved, if not go to our guest book page 2 to read up on it. This breeder has struck again. Same old story she states she did not do what they claim. How many times can one call wolf? She has yet claimed another victim in her web.

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Warning To Bird Owners SW Ontario

-----Original Message-----
From: BirdsforSaleINcanada@yahoogroups.ca
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:53 AM
To: BirdsforSaleINcanada@yahoogroups.ca
Subject: [BirdsforSaleINcanada] Warning To Bird Owners SW Ontario
It has come to my attention yesterday that a breeder in the Huron Perth area is answering ads on the internet for parrots for sale. Then this person goes to the house, puts on a big show, crying, telling stories about their life and how they would be the best person to take this bird, provide vet care, ect. Also offered to take it for a few months, fix it up and then return it. The owners are told the bird has no value due to whatever defect it may have.

The person with the bird called me yesterday and I spoke to her and advised her not to go through with this, the breeder won't even let her come to see where the bird would be living.
This is not the first time I have been told this person does this. Another lady told me she felt sorry for the breeder when they cried and handed over several conures that were later posted for sale on Kijiji. When the lady tried to get her birds back, the breeder would not answer calls or emails.

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