Really all they've done is place themselves over all the bird rescues. And what's the deal with calling adopters "volunteers"? Indeed a sloppy piece of work. -----Original Message----- Date: Monday, August 16, 2010 4:05:42 pm To: "Mickaboo media advisor team" From: "Elizabeth Young" Subject: Re: [Media-advisors] Fwd: American Federation of Aviculture Exotic Bird Re-homing Proposal Interesting how their help is offered contingent on the continued sale of birds. So, if bird sales are banned, all these exotic homeless birds that need help can go screw themselves (my words). Question: Do dog and cat breeders acknowledge that there is a dog and cat overpopulation problem? (Sidebar- If you asked the 40 million "surplus" dogs and cats that are being euthanized each year in this country, I bet they'd say there's a problem.) e On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Tammy Azzaro wrote:

Easy. They never say they will take them to the vet, period. They say they will handle those birds deemed unhealthy on "a case by case basis". I guess they'll die from untreated disease or injury one-by-one. This is just a loooong way of saying "forget about the ban, let US take all of the birds and we'll handle it because we know about birds". We are supposed to assume that because the AFA members are AFA members they will know how to properly care for a