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MickaCoo needs urgent help!
by Elizabeth Young 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

MickaCoo <http://www.MickaCoo.org/>, already stretched to the breaking point with 92 rescued pigeons and doves in our all-volunteer foster care system is rising to more challenges today to help Berkeley Animal Control Services with 100 pigeons that were abandoned by the owner of Lucky Dog Pet Shop<http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/03/09/closure-of-berkeleys-lucky-dog-pet-s…> in Berkeley today AND to help the survivors of more than 60 king pigeons that were "released" at a Milpitas business for good luck but that instead are dying for lack of care<http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17586992>. King pigeons are domestic and don't survive in the wild. Please help us to help these birds by donating<http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html> and adopting <http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html>! Please contact me at AdoptKings(a)gmail.com if you can help. Thank you! -- Elizabeth * * 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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30 of 60 are still alive of the released Milpitas king pigeons in the news
by Elizabeth Young 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Here's the article http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17586992?nclick_check=1 And there's a newscast coming up at 9 pm on KOFY (Ch 13 in SF) showing the poor kings in a parking lot. They're strutting and courting with no idea what danger they are in. Volunteer rescuers are needed to help catch these birds. They are on Ames in Milpitas and easiest caught at night or with food lures and nets. Below are links that you can use and share to help us help these birds. MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue <http://www.MickaCoo.org/> (our website) How to Create an Aviary for Rescued King Pigeons<http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.h…> (this article is helpful for whatever kinds of pigeon aviary you want to create) Online Application to Foster or Adopt<http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html> Why Have a Pigeon For a Pet?<http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/why-have-pigeon-for-pet.html> Pigeon Pants!<http://www.rescuereport.org/2010/11/pigeons-as-indoor-pets-miracle-of.html> Videos about MickaCoo's Rescued Pigeons<http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/pigeon-videos.html> Some of MickaCoo's Success Stories<http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/04/success-stories.html> Donate to MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue<http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html> -- Elizabeth * * 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 * * 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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URGENT help needed to transport 100 abandoned pigeons from Berkeley to Gilroy this Sunday
by Elizabeth Young 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello- So we've (miraculously) got a wonderful foster loft for the 100 pigeons that were abandoned when Lucky Dog Pet Shop was evicted. Now we need to get them there. Can YOU help transport them from Berkeley to Gilroy this Sunday? Please reply to me at AdoptKings(a)gmail.com if you can. Thank you!!!! -- Elizabeth * * 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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OT: Psychology Today Article About Animal Emotions and Intelligence
by Elizabeth Y 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I feel like the state of human understanding about animal intelligence says way more about what we don't know than it ever has about what animals do know. e Elizabeth Y www.RescueReport.org www.MickaCoo.org -----Original Message----- From: United Poultry Concerns <news(a)upc-online.org> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:53 AM To: adoptkings(a)gmail.com Subject: [UPC] Psychology Today Article About Animal Emotions and Intelligence 10 March 2011 Psychology Today Article About Animal Emotions and Intelligence www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201103/empathic-chickens-and-c… Animal Emotions Do animals think and feel? by Marc Bekoff Empathic chickens and cooperative elephants: Emotional intelligence expands its range again Chickens feel one another's pain and elephants know when they need help Published on March 9, 2011 The more we actually study animals the more we learn about their emotional lives and cognitive skills. A few years ago a prestigious research group discovered that mice displayed empathy but caused a good deal of pain to the mice being studied. Now we've just learned that chickens also feel one another's pain. A research group at the University of Bristol, using non-invasive methods, showed for the first time that "domestic hens show a clear physiological and behavioural response when their chicks are mildly distressed." Mother hens and their chicks were exposed to puffs of air. "When the air puff was directed at the hens, they reacted with signs of fear, becoming more alert and preening less, and their eye temperature decreased. When their chicks were exposed to the puffs of air, the hens showed all these signs but in addition, their heart rate increased and they made more clucking calls to their chicks - strong signs of their concern." (see also) Previous research has shown that chickens are very intelligent so this new discovery is not all that surprising. For years, Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns, has been telling us how smart and emotional birds are and that they deserve far better treatment than they receive in food processing facilities, truly torture chambers, around the world. Accumulating data from research on chickens (and other birds) support her views. Chickens kept in horrific conditions in battery cages on factory farms don't like it and they also feel the pain and suffering of other chickens who are crammed into these incredibly inhumane prisons. If you're eating chickens you're eating pain and misery and it's not a matter of WHAT'S for dinner it's a question of WHO'S for dinner because billions of sentient animals are slaughtered and tortured for unneeded meals. Elephants also are making news once again. We all know how smart and emotional these amazing beings are and now we've learned that they will cooperate to pull two ends of the same rope to obtain a reward and also that an elephant will wait for another elephant to come help knowing that there is no point to pulling the rope alone. "These findings suggest that the elephants had not simply learned to pull on the rope after their partner arrived at the apparatus. They seemed to understand that the cooperative task involved both animals pulling on a rope simultaneously. This puts their performance on a par with that of chimps and bonobos." Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. Don't just switch from beef to chicken. Go Vegan. www.UPC-online.org Order Today: Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (2009 Revised Edition) This message was sent to adoptkings(a)gmail.com from: United Poultry Concerns | PO Box 150 | Machipongo, VA 23405 Email Marketing by Manage Your Subscription View this message in the iContact Community: View message Comment on this message Receive as RSS Share this message with others: del.icio.us Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon

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Updates from MickaCoo and The Rescue Report
by Elizabeth Young 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello! In the three days since I sent out my, "I can't keep up with all these pigeons. Help!" email, we've taken in the SJACS shelter pigeon (Thank you, Cheryl A) and a lost racer that wandered into Leslie's classroom (Thank you Leslie, Cheryl A and Zann) and two abandoned doves. We've also got several new fosters coming online and a couple of adoptions in process and one adoption (for rescued lab pigeons Perry & Doogie) is complete (Thank you, Cheryl D). Yay!!! Thank you ALL for reading and responding to my plea and please do keep up your efforts. It makes a difference! We're still way too full! And there's some good stuff at the www.RescueReport.org that you're going to want to check out... 8 ] e -- Elizabeth * * 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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PEPSI REFRESH POWER VOTE CODES GET THEM NOW
by Lisa Bauman 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi Everyone, Look at the below info. taken from PR website regarding "Power Votes". Yes we want to have them and right now you can be collecting them for when the contest starts by looking below " Where to Find A Power Vote Code". I hope I got this all right. Lisa 5. Voting. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period. Individuals who are only interested in registering on the Website in order to vote (as defined below) will be required to meet the Eligibility Requirements listed above in Section 1 and will be required to follow the directions on the Website to register as a Voter. An individual can register on the Website as either a Participant or as a Voter but not both. During the Voting Periods listed in the Application Entry Table above in Section 2, an individual who has registered on the Website to vote for the Applications they think should receive Grants (“Voter”) will be allowed up to five (5) votes (each a “Vote”) per Voter per day during each Voting Period. Each Participant in the Grant Program will also be allowed up to five (5) Votes each day of each Voting Period, with the exception of Power Votes as discussed below in Section 6. For purposes of voting, a “day” shall be defined as the 24-hour period beginning at 12:00:01 a.m. ET and ending at 11:59:59 p.m. ET. Limit one (1) registration per person/email address/name/address/household regardless whether you are registering as a Voter or as a Participant. At the end of each day of a Voting Period, any of the un-used Votes allotted to any Voter or Participant will become void and will not roll over to the next day. An individual can register on the Website as either a Participant or as a Voter but not both. If Sponsor determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that any Participant or Voter has not complied with these Official Application Guidelines in any way, for example, (i) use of proxy voting, (ii) by registering more than one (1) time on the Website and/or using multiple e-mail or dummy email addresses, (iii) offering any type of compensation or agreeing to compensate (monetarily or otherwise) any third party, in exchange for a Vote in any manner, or (iv) other fraudulent means in an attempt to cast more than the five (5) Votes allotted per day of each Voting Period or to allocate more than one (1) Vote per day to the same Application, then Sponsor reserves the right to cancel that Voter’s or Participant’s account, disqualify all their Votes and/or disqualify any Application that they have submitted and disallow any further participation by such individual in the Grant Program. Sponsor may allow various off-site methods of voting for an Application, including but not limited to mobile, widgets, media (by way of example and not by way of limitation, voting through a cell phone). Sponsor recommends that before a Voter or Participant chooses an Application to vote on, they visit the Website and review the Profile of the Participant for that Application to get more information about the Participant and their Application. Once each Voting Period has ended, the respective Participants responsible for the appropriate number of Applications in each Grant Level with the highest number of Votes will each be deemed an Eligible Grant Recipient. If there is a tie among the Applications in a particular Grant Level after a Voting Period has ended, Sponsor (and/or its designated agent), in its sole and absolute discretion, will review the tied Applications and will break the tie based on the Application that first in time received the highest number of Votes during the Voting Period. It is possible that two or more Participants will submit Applications which may contain similar/the same idea for a Grant. If both Participants submit Applications which contain the same idea for the same organization, both Applications will be disqualified. Notwithstanding this, Eligible Grant Recipients will be determined solely by the number of Votes cast for each Application as set forth herein. Sponsor is under no obligation to review or consider the similarity of other Applications in determining whether or not to accept an Application. Sponsor’s decisions, in its sole and absolute discretion, are final and binding in all matters relating to the Grant Program. If a Participant’s Application receives the highest number of Votes in the applicable Grant Level, Participant will become an Eligible Grant Recipient for the Grant amount specified in his/her Application. With respect to the Pepsi Challenge Applications, if Participant submitted a Pepsi Challenge Application and the Application is ranked as having the highest votes in that Grant Level (see Grant Table in Section 4 above), Participant will be deemed an Eligible Grant Recipient. In the event, Sponsor has a Pepsi Challenge Category in a particular Application Period and none of the highest ranking Applications contains a Pepsi Challenge Application, Sponsor will review the ranking of all Applications in each Grant Level and the one (1) Pepsi Challenge Application in each Grant Level with the highest ranking at the end of that respective Voting Period will be deemed an Eligible Grant Recipient of the Pepsi Challenge Category. In the event that there are no Pepsi Challenge Applications in a particular Application Period, there will be no Pepsi Challenge Grants awarded for that category in that Application Period. 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Beginning at 12:00:01 p.m. (Noon) ET on May 1, 2011 and ending 11:59:59 p.m. ET on September 30, 2011 (the “Power Voting Period”), a Participant can use a Power Vote Code (as defined below) to receive extra Votes to vote for an idea on the Website. Once a Participant enters a Power Vote Code on the Website, the Participant must use all of those Power Votes associated with the Power Vote Code for one (1) idea by midnight (local time) of the day the Power Vote Code is entered. If you are not ready to cast your Power Votes, do not input your Power Vote Code. Rather, review the Website to find your favorite idea and then insert your Power Vote Code when you are ready to use your Power Votes. Once a Power Vote Code is entered on the Website, the corresponding Power Votes must be used by midnight (local time) on the day such Power Vote Code is entered for one (1) idea otherwise those Power Votes will be forfeited and will not be carried over for use on another day. 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Vegan Food Party and King Pigeon Meet up
by C Dickinson 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

3/12/11 Sat, 4:00pm - 7:00pm Host: Cheryl (RSVP requested) Vegan Food Party Pacifica Join us for one of our favorite types of events -- Bay Area Vegetarians' classic Vegan Food Party!! Never been to a VFP before? It's a community event where people bring their favorite vegan foods to share. A great way to try a variety of new dishes and meet and mingle with people of a like-mind. Vegan Food: Bring your favorite homemade vegan food -- appetizers, entrees, salads, side dishes, desserts -- you name it! As long as it's vegan (strictly vegetarian, entirely plant-based, no animal or insect by-products). You're also welcome to taste-test new recipes on hungry volunteers, too! Please see VFP guidelines for more details on what to bring. Everyone is welcome, both veg & non-veg, as long as each person is open-minded and brings vegan food to share :-) If you have non-veg friends who always wonder what you eat, volunteer to make a vegan dish for them, and bring them along to enjoy our community feast! A few important notes: 1. Please bring re-useable cups/plates, etc. It's better for the environment that we all share. 2. Each person should plan to bring a vegan dish with 6 to 8 servings, ingredient list, and everything you need to eat and serve your dish with. Please read the VFP Guidelines @ http://www.bayareaveg.org/vfpdetails.htm about what to bring. Seriously, this could mean the difference between eating and not eating. 3. Gather at 4 pm, start eating at 4:30 pm :-) Location: Private home. Address will be sent upon RSVP at this link: http://www.bayareaveg.org/rsvp.htm?id=2488 __________________________________________________ Cheryl A Reiki Master - www.cheryldickinson.com A MickaCoo Volunteer - www.MickaCoo.org A King Pigeon Rescuer - http://cheryldickinson.com/kings.htm

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MickaCoo Taking on Tyson at the Pour House Fundraiser Update
by Elizabeth Young 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Thank you VERY much to Cheryl D & Amaryllis for helping out and to Chris O, Katie & Eric W, Maureen O & her sister Mary, Andrea & Jeff, Kirstin, and especially to Kerry D (who initiated the idea) and William & Raphael of the SF Pour House for joining us to have a drink, enjoy some pigeons (Mandee, Rascal & Peppermint) and watch Taking on Tyson last night. $220 was raised for MickaCoo and lots of exciting ideas and opportunities were explored. Here's a link to my pictures (dark and incomplete- I missed several folks, sorry!) http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90622&id=1632690545 Stay tuned. We'll likely be doing it again soon! e -- Elizabeth * * 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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Pigeon at SJACS needs foster home and 2 doves from Berkeley ACC do too
by Elizabeth Young 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hello- We need a foster home for the pigeon at SJACS. Is there anyone that could pick up and care for this bird? *Also, I'm picking up two white ringneck doves from Berkeley ACC today and taking them with me to Dr. Speer (one is missing a foot, other "can't get it up off its tummy") this afternoon but I NEED a foster home to take them in. I can't foster them. I am too full. It is easy and lovely to care for a pair of little white doves. Can you help? * * * e -- Elizabeth * * 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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Fwd: I can't keep up with all these pigeons. Help.
by Elizabeth Young 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Here are some pictures and links to information about MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue (and I've attached our flyer as well). Thank you!!!!! MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue <http://www.MickaCoo.org/> (our website) Birds Available for Adoption<http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html> (and there are always more that we haven't gotten on the website yet) How to Create an Aviary for Rescued King Pigeons<http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.h…> (this article is helpful for whatever kinds of pigeon aviary you want to create) Online Application to Foster or Adopt<http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html> Why Have a Pigeon For a Pet?<http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/why-have-pigeon-for-pet.html> Pigeon Pants!<http://www.rescuereport.org/2010/11/pigeons-as-indoor-pets-miracle-of.html> Videos about MickaCoo's Rescued Pigeons<http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/pigeon-videos.html> Some of MickaCoo's Success Stories<http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/04/success-stories.html> Donate to MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue<http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html> MickaCoo Gear <http://www.printfection.com/MickaCooGear> (online store, every item purchased is $5 for MickaCoo) How I Became an Accidental Pigeon Rescuer: Gurumina- The First King I Met<http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/02/gurumina-first-king-pigeon-that-i.html> Pigeon Talk <http://www.Pigeons.biz/forums> (this is a wonderful web group that can help with any questions you might have as well as help you find other pigeons in need of homes) -- Elizabeth * * 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 On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Elizabeth Young <adoptkings(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hello- > > I just received this email about a shelter pigeon in SJ- > > "Hi. A White Pigeon was left at our front door on 3/6/11 with no > information were he was found, he is unable to fly, do you have space for > him if possible I would loike to get him out as soon as possible, No picture > was taken of the pigeon at the time of intake he was very scared." > > > There's another one at Hayward ACC that has been waiting to come in. > > > It's been a month since MickaCoo had its last adoption. We've got 85 birds > and it is an overwhelming caseload. > > > Even if I can find foster space for this bird, I need help doing outreach > to create adoptions. > > > Help! > > e > > > -- > Elizabeth > * > * > 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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