Me too, I'm sorry not to have gotten to this earlier. It's a great idea, yes, and the original is too wordy, yes! - Thanks for doing a draft, Vinny. p

Sorry to have not replied to your post on this to the GD. I think it is a GREAT idea (though I think the Drs.' one was too wordy).

Karen is the owner of Harvest Home (farm) Animal Sanctuary and I'm not sure what if any relationship she has with that paper but I can check. I'd also suggest Linda Goldston of SJ Merc, Gary Bogue of CC Times and whatever SF Chron writers did pieces about the pet sale ban.

Go, Vinny!

Elizabeth Y www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org

-----Original Message----- From: Vincent J. Hrovat <1217@vhrovat.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:27 PM To: 'Mickaboo media advisor team' 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