The Good News and the Bad News
There's a lot of good news.
Bringing Jazzy and Tum Tum back to my loft from the new foster site in Pacifica reduced the number of pigeons there from six to four, removed the disruptive little Ms. Tum Tum who was a home-wrecker fooling around with married pij while there, and restored peace to MickaCoo Pacifica and saved the marriages of three pigeon couples. My loft is peaceful as well with Jazzy & Tum Tum reconnected and Frances & Country finally choosing a nice, second floor nest box.
This little dove, rescued from San Jose Animal Care Services, is named Phoenix for the way he is recovering and seeming to return from the ashes. He's a senior citizen bird and, based on the huge amount of feather loss, had been picked on and neglected for a very long time. Those times are over though. He's being adopted by his foster family- Cathy & Steve, is daily sprouting new little feathers here and there, and will never again have to worry. He is safe and loved forever now.
The bittersweet story of Woo & Hoppity, also senior citizen doves, has a happy ending. After living with them and loving them for 12 years, their owner, Jill, developed a severe pulmonary reaction to their feather dust and, despite exploring every option, was faced with the heartbreaking decision to have to rehome them. MickaCoo was able to place them in a safe, conscientious and caring foster home for several months while Jill's health recovered. Seeing the improvement living without them has made for her lungs and knowing they had found a great, forever home, Jill has been able to part with her dear friends and they have been adopted by their foster family, Kimberly and Jed.
Another very happy turn of events is that Peppermint, the sick baby pigeon from SJACS that had been abused, written on with permanent magic marker and so cruelly confined that he couldn't walk, has made a stunning recovery. He is closely bonded to his foster mom, Sherri, and lives a very happy and enriched life that includes his own compound, toys, sunning, indoor bathing pool and daily one-on-one attention. He has regained his health and now can run and even jump. He'll be working as a "demo pij" at an upcoming adoption fair and is practicing wearing pigeon pants for the occasion.
I had the joy and privilege of placing my beloved, hand-reared baby rescue pigeons, Dill & Tess, with Nancy to live in her Aviary of Eden. They immediately recognized their incredible good fortune and are making themselves completely at home in the 40' by 20' aviary.
Their king pigeon friends, Rome & Opal, Billie & George and Blue & Willow are all thriving and living the best life there is for rescued meat pigeons. Other MickaCoo placements such as a pair of ring neck doves named Mom & Pop, a duck named Quacker, a clan of bachelor quail and a family of diamond doves are also enjoying the good life. It is very hard to care for these rescued birds, so vulnerable and at-risk, sometimes for many months and then to turn them over to someone else but it is adopters like Nancy and aviaries like this that make it possible. I'll never worry a minute about any one of these incredibly lucky birds, all of whom were once homeless.
I noticed a pigeon in my backyard with string tangled around one of its toes and was able to catch it with some feed in a trap and remove the string and set it free.
Two young king pigeons were rescued from the side of the road and nursed back to health at Peninsula Humane Society (despite there not really being enough room for them) and they and two kings from SFACC were fortunate enough to be welcomed by the Marin Humane Society whose indoor/outdoor barn stall accommodations provides the best quality of shelter life for a pigeon in the Bay Area. All four are pure white king pigeons, young (hatched around 8/1) and available for adoption in Novato.
While they can always use more, the SFACC Small Animal Department has a growing team of volunteers and I was thrilled, last Thursday, to see FOUR there all brushing, exercising, socializing, feeding and nurturing the very many bunnies and birds and rats and and and that depend on the extra attention the volunteers can offer. It's all the staff can do to keep up with the basics for such a relentless stream of incoming homeless pets.
One little SFACC pigeon, colored a lovely shade of chocolate and named Jools by a volunteer, charmed everybody with her sweetness and desire to interact- she's a people pigeon! The great news for her is that she has been adopted by SFACC volunteers Barna & Kathleen- the same wonderful folks that have been caring for and are now adopting Winter, the once gravely injured and now wonderfully recovered Indian Fantail from San Jose.
The bad news is that I've got another very sick little baby pigeon, Sophie, and despite your generous support, MickaCoo is out of donated funds for vet care (we're $350 in the red and facing at least another $200 for more diagnostics for Sophie, not to mention however much her treatment will cost), we're full up with 19 MickaCoo pigeons available for adoption (and no open spots) and I'm burning out. I'm getting very crispy fried. I don't know how much longer I can do this and it needs doing. These sweet birds keep arriving in shelters all the time.
To donate, please go to http://www.mickaboo.org/ and click on the DONATE button
(clicking here won't work). Please specify "Sophie" or "pigeon" in the notes.
To help out or get involved in other ways, please contact me at AdoptKings@gmail.com.
Bringing Jazzy and Tum Tum back to my loft from the new foster site in Pacifica reduced the number of pigeons there from six to four, removed the disruptive little Ms. Tum Tum who was a home-wrecker fooling around with married pij while there, and restored peace to MickaCoo Pacifica and saved the marriages of three pigeon couples. My loft is peaceful as well with Jazzy & Tum Tum reconnected and Frances & Country finally choosing a nice, second floor nest box.
This little dove, rescued from San Jose Animal Care Services, is named Phoenix for the way he is recovering and seeming to return from the ashes. He's a senior citizen bird and, based on the huge amount of feather loss, had been picked on and neglected for a very long time. Those times are over though. He's being adopted by his foster family- Cathy & Steve, is daily sprouting new little feathers here and there, and will never again have to worry. He is safe and loved forever now.
The bittersweet story of Woo & Hoppity, also senior citizen doves, has a happy ending. After living with them and loving them for 12 years, their owner, Jill, developed a severe pulmonary reaction to their feather dust and, despite exploring every option, was faced with the heartbreaking decision to have to rehome them. MickaCoo was able to place them in a safe, conscientious and caring foster home for several months while Jill's health recovered. Seeing the improvement living without them has made for her lungs and knowing they had found a great, forever home, Jill has been able to part with her dear friends and they have been adopted by their foster family, Kimberly and Jed.
Another very happy turn of events is that Peppermint, the sick baby pigeon from SJACS that had been abused, written on with permanent magic marker and so cruelly confined that he couldn't walk, has made a stunning recovery. He is closely bonded to his foster mom, Sherri, and lives a very happy and enriched life that includes his own compound, toys, sunning, indoor bathing pool and daily one-on-one attention. He has regained his health and now can run and even jump. He'll be working as a "demo pij" at an upcoming adoption fair and is practicing wearing pigeon pants for the occasion.
I had the joy and privilege of placing my beloved, hand-reared baby rescue pigeons, Dill & Tess, with Nancy to live in her Aviary of Eden. They immediately recognized their incredible good fortune and are making themselves completely at home in the 40' by 20' aviary.
Their king pigeon friends, Rome & Opal, Billie & George and Blue & Willow are all thriving and living the best life there is for rescued meat pigeons. Other MickaCoo placements such as a pair of ring neck doves named Mom & Pop, a duck named Quacker, a clan of bachelor quail and a family of diamond doves are also enjoying the good life. It is very hard to care for these rescued birds, so vulnerable and at-risk, sometimes for many months and then to turn them over to someone else but it is adopters like Nancy and aviaries like this that make it possible. I'll never worry a minute about any one of these incredibly lucky birds, all of whom were once homeless.
I noticed a pigeon in my backyard with string tangled around one of its toes and was able to catch it with some feed in a trap and remove the string and set it free.
Two young king pigeons were rescued from the side of the road and nursed back to health at Peninsula Humane Society (despite there not really being enough room for them) and they and two kings from SFACC were fortunate enough to be welcomed by the Marin Humane Society whose indoor/outdoor barn stall accommodations provides the best quality of shelter life for a pigeon in the Bay Area. All four are pure white king pigeons, young (hatched around 8/1) and available for adoption in Novato.
While they can always use more, the SFACC Small Animal Department has a growing team of volunteers and I was thrilled, last Thursday, to see FOUR there all brushing, exercising, socializing, feeding and nurturing the very many bunnies and birds and rats and and and that depend on the extra attention the volunteers can offer. It's all the staff can do to keep up with the basics for such a relentless stream of incoming homeless pets.
One little SFACC pigeon, colored a lovely shade of chocolate and named Jools by a volunteer, charmed everybody with her sweetness and desire to interact- she's a people pigeon! The great news for her is that she has been adopted by SFACC volunteers Barna & Kathleen- the same wonderful folks that have been caring for and are now adopting Winter, the once gravely injured and now wonderfully recovered Indian Fantail from San Jose.
The bad news is that I've got another very sick little baby pigeon, Sophie, and despite your generous support, MickaCoo is out of donated funds for vet care (we're $350 in the red and facing at least another $200 for more diagnostics for Sophie, not to mention however much her treatment will cost), we're full up with 19 MickaCoo pigeons available for adoption (and no open spots) and I'm burning out. I'm getting very crispy fried. I don't know how much longer I can do this and it needs doing. These sweet birds keep arriving in shelters all the time.
To donate, please go to http://www.mickaboo.org/ and click on the DONATE button
(clicking here won't work). Please specify "Sophie" or "pigeon" in the notes.
To help out or get involved in other ways, please contact me at AdoptKings@gmail.com.
Thank you.
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