I can try to get it into the Bee's weekly pet section.
Scott Shipley
Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue
Macaw Co-Coordinator and 'Too Team
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From: Vincent J. Hrovat <1217@vhrovat.org>
To: Mickaboo media advisor team
Sent: Tue, April 19, 2011 11:27:55 PM
Subject: [Media-advisors] Rio follow-up
I posted this to discuss earlier today but got no responses. For now I am
proceeding to write the article / web page in question. I should have a straw
man for discussion by tomorrow evening. If somebody else is motivated to take
this on, please let me know.
Also I am contacting Eileen Mitchell from the Chron and will ask Maggie Rufo if
she can work this into an article for the Marin IJ. Does anyone else have any
media contacts that they think we should ping? Elizabeth, how about Karen
Courtemanche from the Stockton Examiner? Any others that you have worked with
recently?
Previously posted material below:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=197
A subsidiary of Dr. Foster-Smith did this web page to address the increased
demand for clown fish as fallout from the Finding Nemo movie. I think we should
consider using this as a template for a similar page about parrot ownership
vis-à-vis the movie Rio. We could set such a page up on our outfacing web site
and/or facebook with crosslinks, etc. We might even consider this a press
release.
Thoughts or constructive comments? Does anyone want to draft such a page? It
would contain a lot of information that we already have available elsewhere, but
tailoring it to the potential interest in birds as fallout from Rio would help
generate a bigger audience. We might fair-use a couple of pictures from the
movie (if our gc feels safe with that), and compare-contrast them with pictures
of real rescued macaws that are plucked, aggressive, etc.
Thanks.
Vincent J. Hrovat
