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From: Michelle Yesney
Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Subject: [Mickaboo Admins] Please support a local avian nonprofit (it's
simple to do)
To: Mickaboo administrative staff
Elizabeth asked that we share this with both lists since we all need a
little morale boost.. Some of you know Evet, who retired and recently moved
from San Jose to South Carolina.
We thought you would all enjoy reading such a lovely and positive letter of
support.
Michelle
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*From:* Evet [mailto:Evet_Loewen@att.net]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3:19 PM
*To:* SFBayRaptors@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Please support a local avian nonprofit (it's simple to do)
Hi everyone:
For those in the Bay Area, there is a local nonprofit, Mickaboo Companion
Bird Rescue, that really needs some financial assistance. In case you are
not familiar with them, this organization is all volunteer and is
practically the only organization that does what it does in the Bay Area.
It takes parrots and other birds that for one reason or another have been
given up by their owners, places them in foster homes, provides good
veterinary care for any that need it, and then seeks good homes AFTER the
new prospective owners have been fully trained with regard to avian care.
You can visit their website at *www.mickaboo.org* http://www.mickaboo.org/.
They are the rehabbers of choice for the wild cherry-headed conures of San
Francisco, made famous by Mark Bittner in the film “The Wild Parrots of
Telegraph Hill”.
Many species of birds are very difficult to keep, and sometimes their
keepers run into bad situations (like foreclosures) where they simply cannot
keep their companion birds any more. As you can imagine, this is a very
difficult time to handle the demand and it is overwhelming this nonprofit.
Mickaboo desperately needs funding to pay for increasing veterinary bills -
vet care needed to treat ill, injured and sometimes sadly abused parrots and
other companion birds that have come into their care. You should know that
one of the avian veterinarians that treats Mickaboo rescues is also the
official veterinarian for the San Jose Peregrine falcons. We only want the
very best.
Mickaboo has an opportunity to receive a Pepsi Refresh grant of $50,000 if
they can land among the top 10 organizations ranked by number of votes
received in a "contest" sponsored by Pepsi. The contest ends Monday Jan.
31. It is easy to register with the grant program, and once registered, you
can vote everyday. Mickaboo currently ranks in 60th place. They need a LOT
of votes by next Monday!
Please visit Mickaboo's website and use their link to get to the Pepsi
Refresh grant program, please use this URL:
*www.mickaboo.org*http://www.mickaboo.org/.If
you'd like to go straight to the Pepsi Refresh contest, to the web page
describing Mickaboo's proposal, please use this URL: *
http://www.refresheverything.com/mickaboobirdrescue*http://www.refresheverything.com/mickaboobirdrescue.
This is a simple but highly effective way of helping a Bay
Areaall-volunteernon-profit with
an outstanding record to continue making a difference, and it doesn't cost
us a penny other than the minute or so it takes to log into the Pepsi
Refresh grant program and vote.
I have had extensive contact over the years with Mickaboo volunteers, and
have professional colleagues that have worked with them as well. They are a
first-rate group. I’ve also adopted my last bird from them, a gorgeous
Eclectus named “Ruby”. So I believe in them. Please help them any way you
can, by voting, or by sending in a donation in any amount.
I realize this is not exactly in the center of the topics for this Forum,
and would not otherwise trouble the List if it were not for my intimate
knowledge of what Mickaboo has done, and that it is essential to the
well-being of many kinds of birds that they have the funds to continue what
they are doing. Please consider this as the List-owner’s privilege.
Thank you.
Evet Loewen
List-owner and moderator.
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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
