I've sent this to everyone in my mailing list and I hope you will do the
same.
And you're invited to attend the SF Animal Welfare Commission Meeting where
the decision to recommend a ban on pet sales or not will be made. It will
be a week from tomorrow- Thursday, July 8, at 5:30 pm in Room #408 of the SF
City Hall. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE WELCOME. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE FROM
SF TO ATTEND AND/OR COMMENT.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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From: Elizabeth Young
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Subject: The Pet Bird Crisis is So Bad...
To:
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The pet bird crisis is so bad that when I attended the SF Animal Welfare
Commission's http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=369 meeting at City
Hall on 6/10 to discuss a possible ban on the sale of pets in SF, *birds had
been left off the list of animals being considered*, despite the fact that
the Bay Area's nonprofit, all volunteer Mickaboo Companion Bird
Rescuehttp://www.mickaboo.org/
is continuously overwhelmed with surrendered, abandoned and neglected pet
parrots ranging from budgies and cockatiels and conures to macaws and
amazons and cockatoos.
Since that meeting, birds have been added to the discussion and that is very
important because consumers are, for the most part, completely unaware of
what parrots require for proper care. As a result, the average parrot will
be mistreated despite good intentions and, because of behaviors like
screaming, destructiveness and aggression, be rehomed seven times in the
first ten years of their lives.
*Mickaboo Companion Rescue Organization (and its partner **MickaCoo Pigeon &
Dove Rescue* http://www.mickacoo.org/*) support the ban on pet bird sales
in San Francisco and ask that you help us to get the word out about what is
really happening with pet birds. This link **
http://mickaboo.org/release.pdf** is a Mickaboo press release for immediate
distribution.*
For your convenience, here are links to recent TV news coverage on the
issue-
Birds may be added to ban on pet sales 6/10, SF ABC Channel 7
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7491424
SF leaders consider bird sale ban 6/18, SF ABC Channel 7
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=7507345
And here, in an article and a book written by award-winning animal welfare
journalist Mira Tweti, detailed more completely than I ever could, are the
many reasons why banning pet bird sales is the right thing to do.
*Plenty to Squawk About* - Los Angeles Times - Award-winning LA Times
Magazine expose' (which spurred the book) and helped to pass a
precedent-setting bill to protect baby parrots in the pet trade (ie, pet
stores & breeders selling them too young)
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/20/magazine/tm-parrots29
*Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating and Often
Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species*
http://www.amazon.com/Parrots-People-Fascinating-Catastrophic-Intelligent/dp...
(It was lauded by everyone from Dr. Jane Goodall to Wayne Pacelle, Prez/CEO
of the Humane Society of the US).
I send you my heartfelt appreciation for your efforts on behalf of this
discussion.
--
Elizabeth, MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue
Until they all have homes, don't buy, don't breed- adopt.
www.RescueReport.org http://www.rescuereport.org/
www.MickaCoo.org http://www.mickacoo.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjyooh3Yo0
