MickaCoo & The SF SPCA's Summer of Animal Love

MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue depends on the support of many people and organizations to save the lives of birds that would otherwise be euthanized in shelters too full to keep them and too under-resourced to develop adopters for them.

This year, the SF SPCA Humane Education Department is partnering with MickaCoo for their Summer Animal Camps and is introducing more than 600 children to gentle, intelligent pigeons.

Staff and volunteers lovingly care for six of MickaCoo's foster pigeons in their 6' x 12' onsite aviary and each day Summer Animal Camp students meet pigeons and learn the truth about who they are and aren't.

The kids love the birds and I've been blown away by not only how compassionate and understanding they are but how aware these children are about animal welfare issues. Humane Education works.

As if all of this- the added foster capacity and HUGE boost in community outreach isn't enough, the SF SPCA Summer Animal Campers are fundraising for MickaCoo. On my latest visit, I was greeted with literally bags of money (over $500 has been donated so far and the program is just beginning)!

The benefits of this partnership have been incredible and I will be working hard to connect MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove with other Humane Education programs at shelters throughout the Bay Area. MickaCoo and pigeons and doves everywhere thank the SF SPCA for their generous and strategic support.