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Posted: 14 May 2012 01:45 PM PDT
Our Animal Rescue
Teamhttp://www.humanesociety.org/about/departments/animal-rescue-team/animal_res...works
with local law enforcement and humane agencies to help and rescue
animals in distress, whether from puppy mills, animal fighting rings,
natural disasters, or other cruelty and neglect situations. Our team is
used to dealing with all kinds of challenging scenarios, and last week was
no exception.
[image: Mitred conures at Ohio bird
rescue]http://www.humanesociety.org/news/news/2012/05/5-things-help-parrots.html
*Kathy Milani/The HSUS*
Many parrots form strong bonds; this conure refused
to leave his crippled mate.
In this case, the great folks at the Humane Society of Greater Dayton
called The HSUS in to help seize more than 100 parrots and other birds from
alleged neglect and
crueltyhttp://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/05/birds_rescued_morai...in
Moraine, Ohio--a suburb of Dayton. The birds were living in filthy,
nearly barren cages in a rodent-infested storefront. Many lacked access to
clean water and fresh food; others appeared to suffer from chronic illness
and injury.
Adam Parascandola, director of animal cruelty investigations for The HSUS,
told me that the air inside Wings Over the Rainbow was so noxious that he
had difficulty breathing. Parrots have extremely sensitive respiratory
systems--it's hard to imagine how they could live in this kind of filth and
squalor, day in and day out.
HSUS rescuers worked with volunteers to carefully remove each of the birds
from the building and load them onto our rescue vehicle for transport to
the emergency shelter, where they're now receiving veterinary care. Adam
described several heartbreaking
sceneshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzHUnHtkDDIfrom the several
hours they spent inside that store: a mitred conure who
would not stray from his severely crippled mate; a parakeet with what
appeared to be a tumor half the size of her body; dozens of nearly
featherless birds; and one cockatoo missing her entire upper beak.
How many of these conditions and ailments were due to neglect or cruelty at
Wings Over the Rainbow is still unknown. But it's fair to say that many
were the unfortunate outcomes of a life in captivity.
When I visited the Central Virginia Parrot Sanctuary in
2009http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2009/05/parrots.html,
I met several birds who habitually plucked their feathers from
psychological stress they'd endured at some point while someone's pet.
Sanctuary executive director Matt Smith (also on the scene at the Ohio
rescue last week) says that parrots are highly intelligent and social. They
have complex language and problem-solving skills and form deep emotional
bonds with other birds.
It's their beauty and their keen minds that capture the imagination of
would-be owners. Yet these birds often live in terrible conditions even
with a well-intentioned caretaker. Without adequate psychological and
emotional stimulation, parrots frequently develop psychological disorders.
Frustration, feather-picking, and other behavioral issues are common.
The presence of bird-mills and bird sellers catering to an expanding market
for exotic birds has resulted in a large-scale animal welfare and practical
challenge for the humane movement. Parrot rescues and sanctuaries are
overwhelmed with birds relinquished by owners who had no idea about what
they were taking on in getting a highly intelligent, demanding animal with
a life expectancy of 80 years. Wings Over the Rainbow brands itself as a
sanctuary, and Matt believes that many other similar operations exist
around the country: independent groups that may have begun with the best of
intentions, but they lose control of the situation and things turn for the
worse. In just a few years, it has become a problem of epidemic proportions.
"Part of the answer is accreditation," according to Matt. "Because the
number of parrots in need has grown exponentially in the past decade and
because there is comparatively very little financial support for even the
best of organizations operating in a limited capacity, parrots will
continue to find themselves languishing in cruel and neglectful situations."
You can help parrotshttp://www.humanesociety.org/news/news/2012/05/5-things-help-parrots.html#id=album-143&num=content-2677by
supporting carefully
vetted sanctuaries and
rescueshttp://www.avianwelfare.org/issues/sheltering.htm.
And if you're interested in providing a home to a parrot, consult with a
reputable rescue group.
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