April 2010 Rescue Updates
4/27/10
VERY exciting adoption in process! Check out www.Filoli.org and come see us Friday May 6th - Sunday May 9th at their Flower Show (featuring a Dove Cote with MickaCoo pigeons!)
5:45 Friday April 16 UPDATE:
I just got a call from SFACC. They are caring for a sick baby king pigeon. She needs a foster or an adopter. CAN YOU HELP? I can't- I'm FULL and I don't know of any open foster spots. Please contact me at AdoptKings@gmail.com if you can help this orphan bird.
NOTE: With so many king pigeons needing help, MickaCoo may soon have to face the reality that we do not have the capacity to help them all. We've placed bunches and we're still full. I've spoken with the shelter and they tell me that euthanasia is an overdose of sodium pentathol and that birds go to sleep and die very quickly. I bring this up not as a threat but as a reality. Even if someone steps in and helps this baby, there will be more and more. This is a debate that I'm having in my own head all day long. Unless MickaCoo can exponentially increase it's volunteer involvement and adoption numbers, shelters will have no choice but to once again start euthanizing "surplus" king pigeons.
April 2010
So far this year, MickaCoo has screened adopters and found amazing homes for more than 55 rescued pigeons and doves. And we are STILL too full. There is no way MickaCoo's small number of volunteers and I can sustain this. New pigeons that show up to shelters are truly facing the likelihood of euthanasia if more adopters are not found. And what about the sanctuaries? I've been trying without success to get king pigeons placed with farm animal Sanctuaries or at Best Friends or The Randall, etc. etc. MickaCoo needs more support to do what needs to be done for the pij of the Bay Area.

Peppermint and Rocky worked hard at the East Bay Humane Society Adopton Fair in Oakland and of course charmed a lot of folks.



I had a minor mishap in the Wildlife room of SFACC while checking on their king pigeons which resulted in one of them getting behind the cages and in a VERY narrow space that I was *just barely* able to crawl into and retrieve her from. (She was adopted that day so who knows- I may have to try that trick again.)

And so much more that I wish I had the time to tell you but I don't. I've got a bazillion foster pigeons and two doves that I need to go take care of!



VERY exciting adoption in process! Check out www.Filoli.org and come see us Friday May 6th - Sunday May 9th at their Flower Show (featuring a Dove Cote with MickaCoo pigeons!)
5:45 Friday April 16 UPDATE:
I just got a call from SFACC. They are caring for a sick baby king pigeon. She needs a foster or an adopter. CAN YOU HELP? I can't- I'm FULL and I don't know of any open foster spots. Please contact me at AdoptKings@gmail.com if you can help this orphan bird.
NOTE: With so many king pigeons needing help, MickaCoo may soon have to face the reality that we do not have the capacity to help them all. We've placed bunches and we're still full. I've spoken with the shelter and they tell me that euthanasia is an overdose of sodium pentathol and that birds go to sleep and die very quickly. I bring this up not as a threat but as a reality. Even if someone steps in and helps this baby, there will be more and more. This is a debate that I'm having in my own head all day long. Unless MickaCoo can exponentially increase it's volunteer involvement and adoption numbers, shelters will have no choice but to once again start euthanizing "surplus" king pigeons.
April 2010
So far this year, MickaCoo has screened adopters and found amazing homes for more than 55 rescued pigeons and doves. And we are STILL too full. There is no way MickaCoo's small number of volunteers and I can sustain this. New pigeons that show up to shelters are truly facing the likelihood of euthanasia if more adopters are not found. And what about the sanctuaries? I've been trying without success to get king pigeons placed with farm animal Sanctuaries or at Best Friends or The Randall, etc. etc. MickaCoo needs more support to do what needs to be done for the pij of the Bay Area.
Peppermint and Rocky worked hard at the East Bay Humane Society Adopton Fair in Oakland and of course charmed a lot of folks.
I had a minor mishap in the Wildlife room of SFACC while checking on their king pigeons which resulted in one of them getting behind the cages and in a VERY narrow space that I was *just barely* able to crawl into and retrieve her from. (She was adopted that day so who knows- I may have to try that trick again.)
And so much more that I wish I had the time to tell you but I don't. I've got a bazillion foster pigeons and two doves that I need to go take care of!
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