January 2011 - Mickacoo

Blind Pigeon Needs Forever Home!
by Elizabeth Young 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hello- A lovely couple rescued a hawk-struck feral pigeon fledgling three months ago and took it in and kept it as a pet. They knew it had a terribly injured eye but believed it had vision. They are moving out of the country and have surrendered this young bird whom they named Lucky to me & MickaCoo <http://www.MickaCoo.org/>. But, since having this bird in my home, I have come to believe that it is blind or very nearly so. I think it learned to navigate around their home by sound and feel. I don't want to move this bird around any more than I absolutely have to. (I think being unable to find your way around a new environment must be very stressful.) We need a really great forever home for Lucky. Ideally, I think Lucky should have a pigeon friend/mate. I'm not positive yet of Lucky's gender but I'm leaning towards her being a hen. If you or someone you know could provide a stable, safe and comfy forever home to a blind pigeon, please contact me at AdoptKings(a)gmail.com *NOTE: Lucky lived peaceably with the rescuers' cats but MickaCoo does NOT recommend bird-on-cat-time and even friendly contact with cats can make birds fatally sick!* * * Thank you for your help, *e * -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today **& every day* *this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! * **www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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GREAT JOB!! And "the survey says..."
by Elizabeth Young 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

We are now doing MUCH better in the Pepsi grant competition and rather than falling, we are CLIMBING! We are at #86 with a bullet! If you want to see some good news, click on this link and read through the posts. We have a LOT of support from all across the country- http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f5/please-help-mickacoo-pij-amp-dove-resuce-w… Please don't be shy about asking *your* friends and family to vote for us every day. They can always say no but some will say yes! If folks want a daily reminder, they can email to this address- pepsichallenge-subscribe(a)mickaboo.org (They do NOT have to be Mickaboo volunteers or adopters or entered in our database!) There has been a little confusion about how many times per day one can vote. Here's the scoop- -Each person who votes for a Pepsi Project gets 10 votes per day (*but they must be used for different projects*) -If you vote online AND text, it appears that you can vote twice a day for Mickaboo without breaking any known rule -Please do NOT vote for Mickaboo with multiple email addresses that are really yours (proxy voting can get us disqualified) And here are the results of my informal survey yesterday (Note: not every respondent answered every question): I SUPPORT THIS FUNDRAISING EFFORT AND THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA 8 YES 1 NO I AM VOTING &/OR TEXTING MY VOTE DAILY 9 YES 0 NO I HAVE GOTTEN MY FAMILY & FRIENDS INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY 8 YES 1 NO I HAVE GOTTEN MY NETWORK (COLLEAGUES, FACEBOOK FRIENDS, OTHERS) INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY 7 YES 2 NO I WOULD LIKE A DAILY REMINDER TO VOTE & TEXT 3 YES 4 NO I THINK WE'RE TOO SMALL &/OR THESE THINGS ARE TOO RIGGED FOR US TO WIN A 1 YES 8 NO (8 think it is worth trying) I AM OPEN TO DOING MORE IN SUPPORT OF THIS EFFORT 4 YES 2 NO 2 MAYBE We CAN do this if we try hard enough! Please VOTE http://www.refresheverything.com/mickaboobirdrescue AND text 105245 to 737774 to help Mickaboo & 'Coo be able to continuing to provide vet care to sick and injured birds. THANK YOU! -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today **& every day* *this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! * **www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Re: [MickaCoo] [Mickaboo Discuss] how to guide pigeons out of store successfully
by Elizabeth Y 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Pigeons have exceptional eyesight and the ferals are always starving. I bet if you showed one a handfull of food (rice, bread or cracker crumbs, french fries, bird seed, whatever) and then tossed the food in front of an open door, it would go for it. (And then stick around looking for more.) Maybe best to leave them alone. They'll leave when they're ready and less likely to injure themselves if not in a panic. e Elizabeth Y PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! www.refresheverything.com/mickaboobirdrescue www.RescueReport.org -----Original Message----- From: Tomoko Isogai <jerseycitygeisha(a)gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:08 PM To: General mickaboo discussion <discuss(a)mickaboo.org> Subject: [Mickaboo Discuss] how to guide pigeons out of store successfully i see pigeons walk inside stores many times. many times store people chase them away w. broom etc. what would be the best way to take them outside safely? a couple of weeks ago, i saw a pigeonsflew into apple store on chestnut st in sf. apple employees told us that "oh, we know how to handle this." One employee came out with black jacket and tried to catch the bird. The pigeon got scared and flew into the apple's glass entrance w. big noise:(( A concerned customer called a vet for the birdie; he was still alive, but didn't look good. ------- HOW TO -------------------- CHANGE PERSONAL SETTINGS: https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/discuss/ VIEW LIST ARCHIVE: https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/discuss/ HOW TO RESET YOUR LIST PASSWORD: http://confluence.mickaboo.org/x/2wFj

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Fwd: Help Bird Rescue Earn a $50K Grant
by Elizabeth Young 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Mickaboo & 'Coo sent this out to all in our email address book yesterday. You can forward it to any and everybody and they can subscribe to a daily reminder email (No ASM/official Mickaboo status required!) Please DO share it with your networks. If they opt in for a reminder, they'll get one. If they don't, they won't! e ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue <outreach(a)mickaboo.org> Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:21 PM Subject: Help Bird Rescue Earn a $50K Grant To: everyone(a)mickaboo.org Dear Mickaboo <http://www.mickaboo.org> & MickaCoo<http://www.mickacoo.org>Supporters, We need your online clicks to earn a grant! <http://confluence.mickaboo.org/download/attachments/84115618/2010_07060012.…> You already know that the birds we care for often come to us in terrible shape - sick, injured and in desperate need of expert avian vet care. Your contributions have helped us to care for more than 350 abandoned birds this year and we deeply appreciate that generosity. That said, last year we saw a *41% increase* in our veterinary expenses! For us to raise enough funds to keep up, we are having to become increasingly creative. This month we are competing in the Pepsi Refresh grant challenge<http://www.refresheverything.com>and we have a real opportunity to win a $50,000 grant - but we need your help! To win, we need YOU to vote for Mickaboo's grant proposal[4] every day this month. Please click here every day in the month of January - www.refresheverything.com/mickaboobirdrescue And/or vote (after registering online) by texting the message "105245" to the number 73774 from your mobile phone every day this month. <http://confluence.mickaboo.org/download/attachments/84115618/2010_05290055P…> As an all-volunteer organization, Mickaboo and MickaCoo have proven how extremely motivated and committed we are to helping birds that have nowhere else to turn. We CAN do this if we all vote every day this month. Pepsi will be awarding ten $50,000 grants at the end of January. Let's win one for the birds! Subscribe to a daily voting reminder by emailing pepsichallenge-subscribe(a)mickaboo.org. (Aside: supporters of the Children's Hospital of Oakland will be voting for Mickaboo's Pepsi Refresh grant proposal! As reciprocity, please consider voting for their noncompeting gene therapy grant proposal<http://www.refresheverything.com/designertherapyforkidswithcancer> .) Thank you for all that you do! Yours truly, Pamela A Lee Development Director ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to opt-out of receiving future emails like this, please go to our opt-out page <https://mickaboo.org/opt-out.html>. Mickaboo is a 501(c)3 organization, and your contributions are fully tax-deductible. To learn how to volunteer with us, visit our volunteer page<http://mickaboo.com/volunteer.html> . -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today **& every day* *this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! * **www.refresheverything.com/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0 -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today **& every day* *this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! * **www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Short-term foster home needed for cat-caught dove (at SJ shelter)
by Elizabeth Young 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hello- We've just learned of a cat-caught dove at an SJ shelter. It will need a short-term (14 days) foster and likely twice a day meds before it can join our foster aviary flock. Can YOU help? It is very, very easy to foster and medicate a dove. Thank you for considering! e -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! *www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Re: [MickaCoo] [Mickaboo Discuss] Pepsi Flyers
by Elizabeth Young 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Thank you SO much for doing this, Katie. I have sent it to a bunch of folks (and their staff) who really should be helping us and this flyer will make it even easier for them to do so. By the way, as anyone else noticed that we've climbed from 101 to 94 in the past couple of hours?! VOTE! Thank you!! 8 ] e On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Katie Wunderlich <wunderkatie(a)yahoo.com>wrote: > The files I tried to send earlier are too big. Here are the PDFs - I can > email people the source powerpoint files separately if anyone would like. > Happy Publicizing! > Katie > > > > > ------- HOW TO -------------------- > CHANGE PERSONAL SETTINGS: > https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/discuss/ > VIEW LIST ARCHIVE: https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/discuss/ > HOW TO RESET YOUR LIST PASSWORD: > http://confluence.mickaboo.org/x/2wFj > -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! *www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Re: [MickaCoo] [Mickaboo Discuss] Helping Mickaboo & 'Coo Win a $50K Pepsi Refresh Grant
by Elizabeth Young 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi, Kymberleigh- Thank you for that insight. The MickaCoo video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0>is much more prominent than we anticipated it would be. The Pepsi Refresh grant application was submitted by MickaCoo adopter Catherine with help from Pam & myself. (We expanded the project to include Mickaboo because the vet expenses of Mickaboo are so much higher than MickaCoo and because the Mickaboo group is so much bigger than MickaCoo.) The grant asked for pictures and videos and we provided what we had available without really understanding how exactly it would be laid out by Pepsi. I don't believe that we can make any changes to the application. (Catherine- have you had a chance to confirm that? I believe you did but my memory is hazy.) And while I can personally attest to the negative feelings many have about pigeons, they are also *very beloved* by a great many. Some of the comments on our Pepsi project actually call out our support of pigeons as special. Together, we've found AMAZINGLY wonderful homes for over 400 in the past three years and so, since we've done that, I'm thinking that together we can do anything we set our minds to. 8 ] Elizabeth (MickaCoo founding director) On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Kymberleigh Richards <kymber(a)pacbell.net>wrote: > My answers are in bold underlined text. > > I did have one thought, for whatever it is worth: The video on our page > concentrates entirely on MickaCoo, and even though we have pictures of the > other types of companion birds Mickaboo helps, the text in our description > also only names doves and pigeons specifically. I hate to say this, but > there are a lot of people in this world who dislike pigeons (some of them > have probably been pooped on in a park somewhere by one) and those people > may not look any further than the video and the text on our page. We may be > losing votes because we never spelled out the parrots, tiels, toos, budgies, > and all the other birds we help. > > I may not be an actual Mickaboo volunteer, living down here in Southern > California, but my adopted budgies Chance, Mieli and Apollo make me a part > of Mickaboo anyway ... and I feel I needed to say the above in the spirit of > constructive criticism. > > > > At 11:53AM 1/10/2011, Elizabeth Young <adoptkings(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I SUPPORT THIS FUNDRAISING EFFORT AND THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA **YES* NO* > * > * > I AM VOTING &/OR TEXTING MY VOTE DAILY **YES* NO* > * > * > I HAVE GOTTEN MY FAMILY & FRIENDS INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY **YES* NO* > * > * > I HAVE GOTTEN MY NETWORK (COLLEAGUES, FACEBOOK FRIENDS, OTHERS) INVOLVED IN > VOTING DAILY **YES* NO* > * > * > I WOULD LIKE A DAILY REMINDER TO VOTE & TEXT *YES *NO** > * > * > I THINK WE'RE TOO SMALL &/OR THESE THINGS ARE TOO RIGGED FOR US TO WIN A > GRANT *YES *NO** > * > * > I AM OPEN TO DOING MORE IN SUPPORT OF THIS EFFORT **YES* NO* > * > * > > -------------------- > Kymberleigh Richards > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vote for Mickaboo Bird Rescue to receive a $50,000 grant from Pepsi's > Refresh Everything Project! > http://pep.si/dVkR4J > > > > ------- HOW TO -------------------- > CHANGE PERSONAL SETTINGS: > https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/discuss/ > VIEW LIST ARCHIVE: https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/discuss/ > HOW TO RESET YOUR LIST PASSWORD: > http://confluence.mickaboo.org/x/2wFj > -- Elizabeth *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo Bird Rescues today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! *www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Re: [MickaCoo] MickaCoo Digest, Vol 8, Issue 12
by malonerous 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

I SUPPORT THIS FUNDRAISING EFFORT AND THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA *YES* * * I AM VOTING &/OR TEXTING MY VOTE DAILY *YES* * * I HAVE GOTTEN MY FAMILY & FRIENDS INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY *YES* * * I HAVE GOTTEN MY NETWORK (COLLEAGUES, FACEBOOK FRIENDS, OTHERS) INVOLVED IN VOTING*YES, but not daily* * * I WOULD LIKE A DAILY REMINDER TO VOTE & TEXT *YES* * * I THINK THESE THINGS ARE TOO RIGGED FOR US TO WIN A GRANT *MAYBE, but it's worth a try anyway!* * * I AM OPEN TO DOING MORE IN SUPPORT OF THIS EFFORT *YES* On Jan 10, 2011, at 12:00 PM, mickacoo-request(a)mickaboo.org wrote: Send MickaCoo mailing list submissions to mickacoo(a)mickaboo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mickacoo or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mickacoo-request(a)mickaboo.org You can reach the person managing the list at mickacoo-owner(a)mickaboo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MickaCoo digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Helping Mickaboo & 'Coo Win a $50K Pepsi Refresh Grant (Elizabeth Young) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:53:42 -0800 From: Elizabeth Young <adoptkings(a)gmail.com> Subject: [MickaCoo] Helping Mickaboo & 'Coo Win a $50K Pepsi Refresh Grant To: General mickaboo discussion <discuss(a)mickaboo.org>, MickaCoo(a)mickaboo.org Cc: Tammy Azzaro <tammyazzaro(a)gmail.com>, Michelle Yesney <msyesney(a)gmail.com>, "Lee, Pamela A" <pamela.a.lee(a)bankofamerica.com> Message-ID: <AANLkTin5Q+6h=-nhvJSLGyv9s6qpK=gL4x9Ys2f9S1XH(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello! Mickaboo's rank in the Pepsi Refresh grant competition is continuing to fall. Some folks are really doing a lot to get out the votes but we need to do more if we want to win. If you wouldn't mind, please copy and paste these questions with your answers and reply all (or reply to me if you'd prefer privacy- AdoptKings(a)gmail.com) so that we can get a feel for the groups' perspective on this. Thank you! I SUPPORT THIS FUNDRAISING EFFORT AND THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA *YES NO* * * I AM VOTING &/OR TEXTING MY VOTE DAILY *YES NO* * * I HAVE GOTTEN MY FAMILY & FRIENDS INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY *YES NO* * * I HAVE GOTTEN MY NETWORK (COLLEAGUES, FACEBOOK FRIENDS, OTHERS) INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY *YES NO* * * I WOULD LIKE A DAILY REMINDER TO VOTE & TEXT *YES NO* * * I THINK WE'RE TOO SMALL &/OR THESE THINGS ARE TOO RIGGED FOR US TO WIN A GRANT *YES NO* * * I AM OPEN TO DOING MORE IN SUPPORT OF THIS EFFORT *YES NO* * * * * *Thank you very much!!!* *Elizabeth* *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! http://www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue* * * -- Elizabeth PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! http://www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Helping Mickaboo & 'Coo Win a $50K Pepsi Refresh Grant
by Elizabeth Young 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hello! Mickaboo's rank in the Pepsi Refresh grant competition is continuing to fall. Some folks are really doing a lot to get out the votes but we need to do more if we want to win. If you wouldn't mind, please copy and paste these questions with your answers and reply all (or reply to me if you'd prefer privacy- AdoptKings(a)gmail.com) so that we can get a feel for the groups' perspective on this. Thank you! I SUPPORT THIS FUNDRAISING EFFORT AND THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA *YES NO* * * I AM VOTING &/OR TEXTING MY VOTE DAILY *YES NO* * * I HAVE GOTTEN MY FAMILY & FRIENDS INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY *YES NO* * * I HAVE GOTTEN MY NETWORK (COLLEAGUES, FACEBOOK FRIENDS, OTHERS) INVOLVED IN VOTING DAILY *YES NO* * * I WOULD LIKE A DAILY REMINDER TO VOTE & TEXT *YES NO* * * I THINK WE'RE TOO SMALL &/OR THESE THINGS ARE TOO RIGGED FOR US TO WIN A GRANT *YES NO* * * I AM OPEN TO DOING MORE IN SUPPORT OF THIS EFFORT *YES NO* * * * * *Thank you very much!!!* *Elizabeth* *PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! http://www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue* * * -- Elizabeth PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! http://www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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Re: [MickaCoo] [Mickaboo Discuss] Pepsi Refresh Everything Project
by Elizabeth Young 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Yay!! Thank you!!! On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Kymberleigh Richards <kymber(a)pacbell.net>wrote: > Something else I did was a mass e-mail to a couple dozen of my > friends who know I'm a budgie person asking them directly to vote. > > I brought up the fact that one of my little guys -- Mieli -- racked > up a decent vet bill to treat a bad case of scaly mites before I > adopted him. Given that most of what we want the grant for is > veterinary care, it doesn't hurt to make the case more personal with > friends, if it applies. > > And I modified my e-mail signature to include the shortened Pepsi > link to our page. > > These are little things any of us can do to get the votes in. > > At 10:49 AM 1/7/2011, Catherine Johnston <kmbjohnston(a)sbcglobal.net> > wrote: > > >Thanks-- it really helps to leave comments (well, I see that we receive > >responses so that indicates that it helps. > > > > Kymberleigh Richards > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vote for Mickaboo Bird Rescue to receive a $50,000 grant from Pepsi's > Refresh Everything Project! > http://pep.si/dVkR4J > > > > ------- HOW TO -------------------- > CHANGE PERSONAL SETTINGS: > https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/discuss/ > VIEW LIST ARCHIVE: https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/discuss/ > HOW TO RESET YOUR LIST PASSWORD: > http://confluence.mickaboo.org/x/2wFj > -- Elizabeth PLEASE vote for Mickaboo & 'Coo today and every day this month to help us win a MUCH needed $50K grant! http://www.refresheverything.c om/mickaboobirdrescue Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt. www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0

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