tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151467502024-02-27T20:45:15.596-08:00the rescue report<br>
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<b>"Sanity is a madness <br>
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<i>George Santayana</i>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.comBlogger448125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-42196745541716611462015-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:002015-01-19T13:04:30.412-08:00MickaCoo is Now Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions<a href="http://www.pigeonrescue.org/2014/11/18/mickacoos-name-is-changing/" target="_blank">MickaCoo's Name is Changing!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pigeonrescue.org/2014/12/06/mickacoo-pigeon-dove-rescue-announces-our-new-name/" target="_blank">Announcing Our New Name: Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pigeonrescue.org/2014/12/06/what-is-palomacy/" target="_blank">What is Palomacy?</a><br />
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<span id="goog_531593160"></span><span id="goog_531593161"></span><br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-12758507519673677922014-08-29T10:17:00.000-07:002014-08-29T10:42:05.798-07:00Stay ConnectedPlease visit me at our new website <a href="http://www.pigeonrescue.org/">www.PigeonRescue.org</a><br />
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Get all the latest at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MickaCooRescue">www.Facebook.com/MickaCooRescue</a><br />
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See our <a href="http://www.pigeonrescue.org/birds/">Pigeon & Dove Care Info</a><br />
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-16093970375507141452014-08-20T10:07:00.003-07:002014-08-20T10:26:03.469-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #808080;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: grey;">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue has 2nd place in GlobalGiving's Contest! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;">Please </span><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"><span data-mce-style="color: #0099ff;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=756" href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=756" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #0099ff;" style="color: #9fc5e8;">vote now for Gracie</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;">& help win compassion & funds for pigeons!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Please help people see pigeons for who they really are.</span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #808080;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: grey;">Help MickaCoo win honor for the birds. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #808080;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="http://www.pigeonrescue.org/2014/08/18/global-giving-photo-contest-2014/" target="_blank">See Gracie's story & more photos here</a>. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #808080;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: grey;">Please </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span data-mce-style="color: #0099ff;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=756" href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=756" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #0099ff;">vote</span></a></span> </span><span style="color: grey;">& share. Gracie </span></span><span data-mce-style="color: #808080;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: grey;">needs lots of voters to win. Thank you! </span></span></span>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-44680490866731224792012-12-06T15:18:00.000-08:002012-12-21T15:26:59.929-08:00MickaCoo Year in Review 2012<span style="font-size: large;">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue has had both a very challenging and very promising year. We are getting ever more support and leadership from volunteers and seeming more outreach and placement efforts from Bay Area shelters. In 2012, MickaCoo's foster volunteers saved more than 200 lives by caring for and housing pigeons and doves that no one else would. We've placed more than 100 birds with carefully screened adopters and counseled on behalf of the welfare of hundreds more.
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<span style="font-size: large;">The challenge is meeting the overwhelming demand for our service. We need more adopters, more fosters, more funding. What we are doing is valuable and meaningful and we are committed to becoming even more effective at doing this “impossible” work. We’re closing an historic gap in animal rescue. We are challenging indifference with compassion and changing the world for the better. <i>You make the difference. Thank you.</i></span><br />
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<span id="goog_1347487684"></span><span id="goog_1347487685"></span><br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-16895379090332083392012-10-20T13:17:00.000-07:002012-10-23T13:30:29.928-07:00MickaCoo Garage Sale Benefit #3<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue is a volunteer-powered, donation-funded nonprofit that rescues, rehabs and rehomes birds that otherwise would be killed in Bay Area shelters for lack of adopters. The proceeds from this Garage Sale Benefit will make a life-saving difference for the birds. www.PigeonRescue.org</span></span><br />
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-7100802819776723122012-10-13T13:10:00.000-07:002012-10-23T13:11:50.176-07:00MickaCoo at the Bay Area's BIGGEST Pet Adoption Fair
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-69208182374587946182012-09-12T13:07:00.011-07:002012-09-12T14:43:21.366-07:00Waiting List<div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.mickacoo.org/">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue</a> cares for as many birds as we can. (We currently have 97 pigeons and doves in foster care. Some have been with us for two years!) We are committed to high-quality rescue-to-adoption care and </span><span style="font-family:arial;">our capacity is not infinite.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">I am the sole staff person (effective 8/1 after volunteering for 5 years) and am working 10-12 hour days 7 days a week and I still can't keep up... something I can't sustain. And I'm not alone- MickaCoo is very generously supported by many volunteers! We currently have 16 foster volunteers and many other folks who help with fundraising, outreach and PR, web support, etc.</span></span></div><div style=" font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Even so, we are not able to take in every bird that needs us and we run a constant waiting list for birds needing to come into our care. Here are a few of the birds just <b><i><a href="http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=942">from one shelter</a></i></b> that are waiting... </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>A woman suffering from the final stages of ALS has had to surrender her beloved flock of 13 tame ringneck doves. They are beautiful and healthy. Four have been adopted but nine are still available at <a href="http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=942">SFACC</a>. They need a home!</i></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCgZacfRzz6jLyhSoIXgwL_yW8bRhjwaKE06WdGTqucVlHxBrLXUhOQKHpCc07c8eS3DdpU0r-HYCruCPKmr19klRmGIUJ5hVLMf-H-IylXixRDXGS-apDOTtYd6VFf9_x1i7ZA/s1600/DSCF7245.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCgZacfRzz6jLyhSoIXgwL_yW8bRhjwaKE06WdGTqucVlHxBrLXUhOQKHpCc07c8eS3DdpU0r-HYCruCPKmr19klRmGIUJ5hVLMf-H-IylXixRDXGS-apDOTtYd6VFf9_x1i7ZA/s320/DSCF7245.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787386831602948514" /></a> <div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGq4V9tCM7HMKmpaFhAwdVSB-lRXyLMQ8C0x34fuTmU0FBn1b-JKfLbjyrQQ0wLd0miFbUYbfbSSg6a9WtVM7AJYsmmG3OizxNOT_yR1xZL6qYvmEjlAEyQgIcJ9CnL8dzcIZycQ/s320/DSCF7352.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787385329881014386" /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></div><div style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Vermont & Burlington are two young king pigeons that were found helpless and in great danger at Stow Lake in SF on 8/20. They are at SFACC and available for adoption.</span></i></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb614heqXAHPishr2fi_ebHi6T42ImJhyphenhyphen0V-19R-daR4RyuDasuK21lmUHHCycCMzNZNMzkLhbf0rvEIjIRRd8FRjCXsmNTKC3BhyphenhyphenmdvNOzAHs3p-q0CwA25iE7KfiL3YwIuCI3w/s1600/DSCF8013.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb614heqXAHPishr2fi_ebHi6T42ImJhyphenhyphen0V-19R-daR4RyuDasuK21lmUHHCycCMzNZNMzkLhbf0rvEIjIRRd8FRjCXsmNTKC3BhyphenhyphenmdvNOzAHs3p-q0CwA25iE7KfiL3YwIuCI3w/s320/DSCF8013.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787385365419794498" /></a><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><br /></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>These are four of six baby king pigeons that were bought from a live poultry market and "set free" at a funeral at Holy Cross Cemetery in SF on 8/23. They stood around helpless until a Good Samaritan took them to SFACC. One has since died and the other (Gus) has been taken into MickaCoo's foster care because he was sick and facing euthanasia. (Rather than triaging in the healthiest birds, MickaCoo prioritizes the most at-risk- the sick and injured, a tradition we learned from our big sister- the parrot rescue <a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/">Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue</a>.)</i></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZQgrr5l8imzl7Ji1Az8V6uEx8HlJRxC5yghEVq9UtZOKm8v7fjGbfVQAp1yt4J7tRtZ_Tvq3DYNb4PwHyRY_eEI4EQ-8LMlWV85WSgh_0U1eLM5Kgkg0wHpX6xYciBVo4-DaNQ/s1600/DSCF7993.JPG" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZQgrr5l8imzl7Ji1Az8V6uEx8HlJRxC5yghEVq9UtZOKm8v7fjGbfVQAp1yt4J7tRtZ_Tvq3DYNb4PwHyRY_eEI4EQ-8LMlWV85WSgh_0U1eLM5Kgkg0wHpX6xYciBVo4-DaNQ/s320/DSCF7993.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787385350455367650" /></a></div><div size="3" style=" ;"><br /></div><div size="3" style=" ;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>This is Geary, found on Cesar Chavez at 18th in SF on 8/5 and still waiting patiently in a small cage for adoption or rescue...</i></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOo7eTrF7AP7AmdsPox3uDdktt79H6t8whFei5mG46JECY0SKeI2Y87WLkOTSXLiZtaZt16ovQ2njXRATgdRJbm6KL-SYN4kAFyQ7q8huZu65z3hGLzBlr9gOQACzfsqBTJrL4EA/s1600/DSCF7964.JPG" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOo7eTrF7AP7AmdsPox3uDdktt79H6t8whFei5mG46JECY0SKeI2Y87WLkOTSXLiZtaZt16ovQ2njXRATgdRJbm6KL-SYN4kAFyQ7q8huZu65z3hGLzBlr9gOQACzfsqBTJrL4EA/s320/DSCF7964.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787385344490513746" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">And there are more. </span><span style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;">Please help MickaCoo to help the birds that need us. Adopt. Foster. Volunteer. Donate. </span><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; ">Thank you!</i><br /><br /></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html">MickaCoo’s Available Pigeons & Doves</a></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/why-have-pigeon-for-pet.html">Why Have a Pigeon as a Pet?</a></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.html">How to Create an Aviary for Rescued Pigeons (or doves)</a></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html">MickaCoo Online Adoption Application</a></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/05/gentle-kings-need-help-to-escape-cruel.html">King Pigeons: Gentle Birds Need Help to Escape Cruel Fate</a></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html">Donate</a></span></p><p style=" margin: 0px; font-family:Times;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com">Contact Elizabeth for more information</a></span></span></p></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-63187050524312859402012-09-12T12:09:00.011-07:002012-09-12T15:27:04.230-07:00Rescues!<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.mickacoo.org/">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue</a> is asked daily to help homeless, sick, injured (or all of the above) birds. We do our best to help as many as we can. Here are just a few of our recent rescues.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Pretzel & Sugar Pea arrived at SFACC on 8/6 as stray baby king pigeons. They were doing OK for awhile but became sick with respiratory infections, and with the shelter already overflowing with healthy but unadopted king pigeons, they were facing euthanasia on 8/29 when we picked them up and took them into foster care. They have recovered and are available for adoption.</i></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdX1J7uIDVBHXlG66Ed-j1456-U7-h8jejp3mUSCOdo1O9mkHJ14Wtj6P1kz1p8oyCUpMkaiInDn6zZ8u15N5rdIQuUeP8okuO58ynmxRO2BEvv4wzvS_KmCZnxWk2W6-29JDUvg/s320/DSCF8052.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787372798770353730" /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWBTMEyx_VWpjkzisAyZsleSfTrH31T4EcbmFTH3HNcW0n5FKdrg414bQQ17LGg9f23-AcbyqEfkiu-FDPoAF6-FB_4nCGK-Nn1JOsU7xQoelEwdNOT0IMYeiHYnlKC109SG0KAg/s320/DSCF8028.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787372777274688882" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Gus & Petal were also sick at SFACC on 8/29 and facing euthanasia (Gus because of respiratory infection and Petal with suspected PMV). They are in MickaCoo's foster care and making progress.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgciGETmTCzDwauJ-_kKe1qX7U6L5BJG0zPzd__H5-ryQMzjuFZXxV6DqIeb8r6mYfi_CTQSvk9y8T3JADyzE50YYE1MeSq08f0dIFBSgcbsdMEkdf4ycFzE4IEF8bUlFW3BWbFuw/s320/DSCF8254.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787373272990120130" /> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPmv61ogfkSaFqIFLikH1N-grf5CoYAMODiMi3YEJ_byyspANaTlBTxcjNMA7MR7AtqomwclsjSRa6joFH49SY8RgF6VrUYZ1wgqCmZDJr1PuzumNSNXDe9dkHhQJT_bkWrlMcw/s320/DSCF8239.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787372812425866626" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Fergie is a young adult king pigeon that arrived wounded at SJACS on 9/6 and was taken into MickaCoo's foster care the next day. She has a serious infection from her wounds and required surgery to treat them. We are hopeful that she will survive. (Her new friend Norman the dove is helping to cheer her up.) <a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html">Donations are needed to help pay for her vet care!</a> </i></span><br /><div style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCocpkwofTxnTQdm2sD6Re6IWgZuedQFeYl_X589HhkTtHfOCoDb_BdAtJuvUmlxevgj7CRyEVXfbEW2hqTW9QDRpwC75bCN8Pxk5e2APgo173ETDePDV5SLdtviwVOOMIaip71w/s320/Fergie090712SJACS.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787372783065696930" /></span> <span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh6lU7h4-bwkJ_Xq20QjZa0c3T-Po2TWkGZkymWM4mg7dxmALvA8lZsrRGo1kBG4uTQClXderaYL2nCa_FwGkOEyi12Z2xlGjYq61wrbpLma6ulCnuPzfMYS7BOGR8sJ7cTyDBA/s320/Norman_Fergie091112.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787371761497647762" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Dahlia, a Birmingham Roller, was found emaciated, weak and unable to fly on 8/7. MickaCoo's existing foster homes were full but her rescuer, a Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue volunteer (our sister rescue- for parrots) is caring for her until she is strong enough to join a foster aviary. </i></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyK32VG6MrfTvUkMfK1EvX-3Q9wW0P1iy_v2itW5UKNtUN1RFtwGeyXB4UsD3eIrL-VpfrxB6XbtjOdkrU9w9o4QK_ksmbEWYbx247SexQ8-G_sFGn9m4nQrX8lVcW364EmYDLXw/s1600/Dahlia080812.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyK32VG6MrfTvUkMfK1EvX-3Q9wW0P1iy_v2itW5UKNtUN1RFtwGeyXB4UsD3eIrL-VpfrxB6XbtjOdkrU9w9o4QK_ksmbEWYbx247SexQ8-G_sFGn9m4nQrX8lVcW364EmYDLXw/s320/Dahlia080812.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787370672010713762" /></a></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Faye, an adult homer, wound up as a stray at SFACC on 7/19. They were concerned about her appearance (bald) but it appears to be the result of a previous injury (likely scalped as a baby by non-parental adult birds). It is very challenging for shelters to find homes for all the perfect pigeons in their care- let alone those disfigured in some way. Faye was taken into MickaCoo's foster care on 8/29 and we will care for her until the right home can be found. She is very happy to be out of the small shelter cage and in a foster aviary.</i></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEWSeE93L2qM6jmKtwecbZEjOsMR_e4E5cQrvVWbY1VuI2Rflftc5SHeS_UnIky1_ugThiOvzZ-KUXNudhneJtYS2sSAU_AeN0yEUMUp3W6S9pw2yJYrq4MddglcSr3QOQW2gYA/s1600/DSCF7372.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEWSeE93L2qM6jmKtwecbZEjOsMR_e4E5cQrvVWbY1VuI2Rflftc5SHeS_UnIky1_ugThiOvzZ-KUXNudhneJtYS2sSAU_AeN0yEUMUp3W6S9pw2yJYrq4MddglcSr3QOQW2gYA/s320/DSCF7372.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787370661996627922" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>MickaCoo was sent this haunting picture on 8/31 and was asked to help this fancy but very frightened stray pigeon at the Tri-City Shelter in Fremont. She has since been taken into foster care, named Chanel and is doing better every day. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSjAUT0s-Kb7ftr41bQFVRtAhTVmsTHfv6Chukbdnl6lSa_a09JtvVUEUsUvpm_S5bHq4n-nRDao_1hAqcSOlahqAQn0icsuV1wn8QubqbSDfw0S1jj9PWMJ9d06JcCWgN7JcEg/s320/Chanel083112.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787371774200407810" /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh638nQihyphenhyphenKdzjLQe-VixYruiXtIfPhGwymqvgtlzmhZcCdbgnhzMDmG-wLau8KsQvpF5ZQ_LzBAHAPfeiWKPsu2a7OLvW1A_F7x5bG305vLxtYkFUn1Vmt-3q7snl7ZMrBzulQaQ/s1600/Chanel090112.JPG" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh638nQihyphenhyphenKdzjLQe-VixYruiXtIfPhGwymqvgtlzmhZcCdbgnhzMDmG-wLau8KsQvpF5ZQ_LzBAHAPfeiWKPsu2a7OLvW1A_F7x5bG305vLxtYkFUn1Vmt-3q7snl7ZMrBzulQaQ/s320/Chanel090112.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787370651772375154" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>MickaCoo was also contacted on 8/31 about this "bronze" pigeon at SJACS. He was taken into MickaCoo's foster care on 9/4 and is recovering from a suspected impact injury. He has been named Frightful (after the falcon whom he resembles). </i></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjzzJxDgF3ZYbpLDoqNm2DPN8bn-sEhj_4vxQq38Wc4He-d41s-5c2ZvY7I1qe9RJ-Iycjdzi6UQelBsKdDR8iNz6y173KFs2Xg4yW8yeQnMGl5-hWq_1W296U9tCeG-JoiD9PQ/s1600/FrightfulSJACS090412b.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjzzJxDgF3ZYbpLDoqNm2DPN8bn-sEhj_4vxQq38Wc4He-d41s-5c2ZvY7I1qe9RJ-Iycjdzi6UQelBsKdDR8iNz6y173KFs2Xg4yW8yeQnMGl5-hWq_1W296U9tCeG-JoiD9PQ/s320/FrightfulSJACS090412b.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787370636880464498" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>This tame and very sweet dove, named Sasha by his/her rescuer, was waiting patiently in a small cage for two months at a wildlife rescue until on 9/9, a Mickaboo volunteer couldn't stand it any more and brought the dove home to foster herself until MickaCoo can find an adopter.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQytKKL8wQ8ELfn28sAFIsO6pxGfWQY66mgSjV0LBTo62mfRYXbdcxBpyQ13uG88epEWmSk_jWAaWs_iJKHXQ3r5h9MGYBvlOpS_wIkZfn71GCXBTDm5AeK_DOXkn17YqNreS6g/s320/Sasha091012jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787371769531961794" style="cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 320px; " /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Please help MickaCoo to help the birds that need us. Adopt. Foster. Volunteer. Donate. <i>Thank you!</i></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html">MickaCoo’s Available Pigeons & Doves</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/why-have-pigeon-for-pet.html">Why Have a Pigeon as a Pet?</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.html">How to Create an Aviary for Rescued Pigeons (or doves)</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html">MickaCoo Online Adoption Application</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/05/gentle-kings-need-help-to-escape-cruel.html">King Pigeons: Gentle Birds Need Help to Escape Cruel Fate</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html">Donate</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com">Contact Elizabeth for more information</a></span></span></p></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-57974947266625394262012-09-12T11:12:00.015-07:002012-09-12T14:41:53.066-07:00Adoptions!<div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.mickacoo.org/">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue</a> helps domestic, unreleasable birds that would otherwise be killed in shelters (for lack of adopters) find forever homes. We are an adoption agency for birds and each bird that we are able to place into a great home opens up a spot for the next bird in need of rescue. Here are a few of our adoptions this summer.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><i><b>Louie</b></i></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size:100%;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs2XLoOPgSnpDgqOCIOjCHBuwB0O0e3W5ee8YUFJONOFTrhdDjY5f6LLjcfj1Dsn9UcsC1O3rRZq29VmQPLyg3Z9rGcPDF84USyNaRX31bplu4WDvxDiwuD00RfX5Kw7DVTpFsw/s320/DSCF5595.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787361710564693170" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxGxF6QF2VA2QAKiMwHh3aYR7vaAASz-ueA3uemmKB96zYI-GuvTqq4rwg4Oco65WWP8Z9c_DoXqHESHa5vzPbFa93cauMNYajbu8-SkK5yPJ0l7HObwDJO256mv3Q7jAkHOudHQ/s320/DSCF6081.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787356571635514242" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNjvX_vPi1OL4j7g7eO1h0H-yr_oEALT17EsYNrNmVl2zbizqU5Gt5zZKpIG5EzcMT20uPEQ3yKZ7K68NJuWQW7jiebUg8fpAWAs4UmG1MyFtiO3EdCSaGdXOoGXsNmmoTFNrzg/s400/DSCF6856.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787358026020623842" /><br /></div><div style=" font-weight: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>On June 18th, a Good Samaritan did what others had not- she stopped and helped an injured feral pigeon that had been stranded on the same corner for a couple of days. She didn't know anything about birds but, with his broken wing, she knew that he needed help. She rescued "Louie P. Byrd", found MickaCoo, fostered and transported him to his vet visits and, since he was flightless and unreleasable, celebrated when on July 29th, he was adopted and became the very happy husband to a widowed pigeon named Tina.</i></span></div><div size="3" style=" font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i><b>Cat</b></i></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpidTI6acJWo8jFxWZtOpxSFNsjtIuHwD6_6foqdpK1d64vlh8UOLnOHgQLfx3JiXCG0fxjH7GmQu9WpE3Jo8G6l-XvLIyeTVj3BMHk8xw7FJ9sEWQVdKec6LvTrt4A4y4x4toLg/s1600/DSCF6960.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpidTI6acJWo8jFxWZtOpxSFNsjtIuHwD6_6foqdpK1d64vlh8UOLnOHgQLfx3JiXCG0fxjH7GmQu9WpE3Jo8G6l-XvLIyeTVj3BMHk8xw7FJ9sEWQVdKec6LvTrt4A4y4x4toLg/s320/DSCF6960.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787356115875305794" /></a> <span style="font-size: 100%; font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXrMUnkoT2SlwH2OIiussKoy9xB9hTvp5RtXUHuJ3DP4J_NkxtquZo6Q-VnafVlK42Y7c3CyerGLNz4sYL68qYHyT4hvbhECCh7Ab_lDGUi7qJ7hxjwNCA9M77d20tn_Ogl9UtA/s320/Peter_Catniss_Howisthis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787356133171418658" /></span><div><div style=" font-weight: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i>On July 11th, a MickaCoo volunteer picked up Cat, an injured king pigeon, from SFACC. She recovered well and, thanks to a connection made at a July 22nd outreach event, an adopter was found </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; ">and, as of August 20th, Cat (renamed Catniss), is the very happy mate of a formerly lonely pigeon named Peter.</i></span></div><div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></div><div style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Lola & Luigi</i></span></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfTNSw4WL31XIXfVKpaqI-maVoy-Rv5V66bDwoeDMTu4QyL4tUZ2t9MfT7fltJ11LmXowhqBvmPJhhv238tKDirNe66tnV_Sw5ZZ43MTxlELBEpiKGYGJ9ccECRjaYCuwj_UDTA/s1600/Lola_Luigi_byJill0712.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfTNSw4WL31XIXfVKpaqI-maVoy-Rv5V66bDwoeDMTu4QyL4tUZ2t9MfT7fltJ11LmXowhqBvmPJhhv238tKDirNe66tnV_Sw5ZZ43MTxlELBEpiKGYGJ9ccECRjaYCuwj_UDTA/s320/Lola_Luigi_byJill0712.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787358548332930194" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPADtXleujfukIcX3FXw4nQ6ZYBIUH2yKJ_Lf6JI0wBVFMPemRiG1XG7U6uDjdAzoMAXmrLvOIE_fbYikcEwG7yLjZMZRp3TdYh3amttcYsSKXM9gFK5w37_Y-knFpiPT1GDoJA/s1600/MickaCooWeCanBeHeroes031-Copy.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPADtXleujfukIcX3FXw4nQ6ZYBIUH2yKJ_Lf6JI0wBVFMPemRiG1XG7U6uDjdAzoMAXmrLvOIE_fbYikcEwG7yLjZMZRp3TdYh3amttcYsSKXM9gFK5w37_Y-knFpiPT1GDoJA/s320/MickaCooWeCanBeHeroes031-Copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787358540169193122" /></a> <span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0eKUigT59MOXYy7Hw4PBJo-1QcB_-_bd6fCuF4kASdq6F5KuPVHasy69LW7IVYBA0RkhDIARHnIfG0GTrObwTgFUS5jqPbb8_hkQSrHzEM40Dk-wWUHpWYZ0N0hN8JWke2wZWSA/s400/DSCF8492.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787358873658549938" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>On June 24th, 2011, MickaCoo took big king pigeon Lola and his little husband fantail pigeon Luigi into foster care. Despite their adorableness, it took over a year for them to find a forever home. They were loving fostered throughout that time and, as of September 3rd, have been adopted into their forever home. Lola (now named Lorenzo) and Luigi and their adopters, Sean & Joey, are very happy together!</i></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>Lovey the Diamond Dove</i></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFhyphenhyphenmKZeRJ3W8_isBlNqcWuxdEbMwZTwjqC-TWzuwuYF2DrrkJYL2yfGSWnqNDArY4aNy-TiBTCprP0EcpOO4Kt97gi0-55_o-b2zheC5nSPAp5wZ2YqnHXMIEsi-dc-MRvqK_g/s320/IMG_9694.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787356561428229778" /> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3786e6ed88dyAioZF0mOKyqNVTHzF_dJ8pcAhfgyInrOuuTWddojCaqZgEASFDeesSrZkMfFAiypWS7ZvTuhR2B6wVgLJzEbZhzZHSH-kb4YqcxktTO-XFSGHf5WEZXnTZBanQ/s200/DSCF8493.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787358716938516754" /></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRu9xIdUbYZCXHxEnyCtpfgrYUq6bvahnPk_ggyIgXK0Mo8fNPu_xsJE1CwiKNyH-rgcu_bzm0BmukraKbKqQD2BgDdEaqGOQWGpMtzYsMKKz7qkN-NUTbP0Hu74JFGQ7lDuwZw/s400/2009_09120136.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787358041727408098" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>One of the challenges when doing outreach is that, in the hunt for adopters, we are often asked to help additional birds. At an SFACC outreach on June 11th, a Good Samaritan that had saved a tiny little diamond dove (found helpless in her driveway) asked if MickaCoo would take him in. We did and Lovey was fostered until he could catch a ride to a wonderful new home in an adopter's aviary in Wilton. On September 8th a ride was found and Lovey is now <b>home</b>.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">It's not hard to provide a great home to domestic pigeons and doves and, without one, they face death. There is no "free" for these man-made breeds. Please- consider adopting a pair of birds to live indoors as companions or a flock to grace your yard in an easy-to-build aviary. MickaCoo will help you. Our adopters are very happy people. They love their birds. </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html">MickaCoo's Available Birds</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html">Apply to Foster or Adopt</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.html">How to Create an Aviary for Rescued Pigeons (or Doves)</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com">Questions? Contact MickaCoo!</a></span></div></div></div></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-66886779321027761552012-08-31T12:20:00.007-07:002012-08-31T12:48:57.212-07:00Final Report for Pepsi Grant<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDowAJJJ7Gfk8jrruvvR9MwuypWXEXztN7_xNy0VAE4Yb4ym_4DtigjRf-SHj6nhyphenhyphenveC9W2J6nH1YeKWc5WWXNM5H9lumeWE-RTsiYBIaBxFlpm1Ec2muzNGr2dpZCuay0rOZjUg/s1600/DSCF2794.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDowAJJJ7Gfk8jrruvvR9MwuypWXEXztN7_xNy0VAE4Yb4ym_4DtigjRf-SHj6nhyphenhyphenveC9W2J6nH1YeKWc5WWXNM5H9lumeWE-RTsiYBIaBxFlpm1Ec2muzNGr2dpZCuay0rOZjUg/s320/DSCF2794.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782921780701883314" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqUpGqCMUrFvGFMvAw8Qd50SPTVPm-V5J_gu6wmUcl3QABY00vbloHKEutp3pxZ59BciA68RNnySX8XBooCOr_VbhxerHcneWiYh4puk6fGWD0oasGs55Pi-oMOPfCiei5NWghw/s320/DSCF3769.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782921789288491106" /></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><br /></span><p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The $10,000 grant that we earned in September 2011 from Pepsi for MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue helped a great deal to keep us intact and functioning through a time of challenging transition. We are very grateful for this support! </span></p><p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The project goals were defined as:</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">1. Create a sustainable organization (through staff, volunteer, fund and organizational development) that can continue with or without my personal involvement</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">2. Expand the success of the Gorgeous & Life-saving Aviaries Project to generate greater awareness and inspire more adoptions of homeless birds</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">3. Support and sustain MickaCoo's Foster Care Network so that injured, ill, shelter-timed-out and unwanted domestic pigeons & doves in the SF/Bay Area can have a chance for compassionate rescue and responsible adoption</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Progress was made in each of these three areas though there still remains a great deal to be accomplished!</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">In support of #1- creating a sustainable organization, I led MickaCoo to apply and become approved as a project of Community Initiatives which in turn allows us to further develop as an independent rescue (separate from the parrot rescue within which we began), to continue without needing to invest in becoming a stand-alone nonprofit and to employ a paid Executive Director as of 8/1 (ensuring that my 60+ hours/week of work can continue on behalf of MickaCoo, at least for now). The fundraising has been very challenging and we are running behind what our original budget required but we have cut/limited expenses to stay balanced and we are gradually mobilizing more volunteers and expertise to help increase fundraising effectiveness. Organizational development is also moving forward though also slowly and behind schedule. Critical goals included forming an Advisory Committee (achieved), developing our own website (PigeonRescue.org- in progress) and database solution (still on the drawing board). We definitely are seeing an increase in volunteer involvement and community awareness and we feel positively with the direction that MickaCoo is going. The social impacts that we are making are that we are increasing humane, compassionate treatment of animals to include a previously neglected and underserved population- domestic pigeons and doves; we are empowering people to respond to the sick, injured and abandoned birds that they find (but previously were unable to locate support with which to help); we are increasing humane education and awareness about the cruelty of "releasing" domestic birds (whether in misguided efforts to save them from slaughter or for ceremonial use) and we believe that increasing compassionate, respectful treatment for one increases it for all. Pigeons are common but they are worthy of our mercy and, we believe, that can be transformative not only for the birds, but for people and their communities as well.</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Goal #2- to increase aviary-building to save domestic pigeons and doves- is incredibly important and has been very, very challenging. While we have succeeded in inspiring and supporting the creation of several wonderful (safe, comfortable, non-breeding) new aviaries for rescued pigeons and doves, the majority have been small in scale- accommodating an average of 6 birds- rather than the larger 12-24+ bird size aviaries that are really needed to meet the rescue demand. (Pictures attached.) We were terribly disappointed when two (big, important) promised-aviary-partners backed out after months of saying "yes yes yes" as well as being turned down by several potential partners that seemed to have been ideally well-suited to participate. This effort continues and we are working hard to reach out to more and more potential partners (including wineries, gardens, farm sanctuaries, spiritual and recovery centers, etc. etc.) While the quantity of aviaries that resulted has been lower than we aspired to, the quality of the design, safety and care provided has been very high and we are happy to have met this goal. The social impact we made is to save the lives of many innocent birds that otherwise would have been killed for want of adopters. We engaged and delighted volunteers, Good Samaritans, partners and adopters who in turn created safe, charming and much needed homes for birds. </span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">And fulfilling goal #3 continues to be the heart and soul of what MickaCoo does. It is by providing what would otherwise be unavailable time and care that we save the lives of birds that are facing death in shelters- when they are ill, injured or have "timed out". MickaCoo has a network of around 13 different foster homes at any given time, ranging from intensive, indoor medical and supportive care for one or two birds all the way up to big aviaries for as many as 24 healthy, active birds. Every foster receives assistance and monitoring to ensure the highest quality of care and exceptional outcomes. Through the foster network, birds lives are saved, community awareness is increased, shelters are supported and able to kill fewer animals and ultimately learn and build their own willingness and capacity to treat the injured and ill pigeons and doves just as they would dogs and cats. MickaCoo's birds and adopters benefit from the time and care in our foster system because it ensures that the birds that we place with adopters have been assessed and are ready for adoption. Most of the birds that arrive in the shelters are sick, weak, injured and/or ill ("unadoptable") and by seeing them through until they are healthy and vital, MickaCoo ensures that the birds get the expert care they need and that adopters receive healthy birds ready for the transition. The Pepsi grant funds helped MickaCoo to support and sustain this foster care network (spread across 7 counties) and we have had a very successful year. We've cared for an average of 100 foster birds at any given time and, to date, placed 77 as direct MickaCoo adoptions (which makes room for new fosters) and facilitated at least 20 more through the ever-improving-bird-service of our partner shelters. You can see the transformation of just one of MickaCoo's foster birds, Peppermint, adopted this year at this link- http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/07/peppermint.html</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">As one friend of MickaCoo's so eloquently stated, "Their lives are no smaller than ours."</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Pepsi grant made a huge difference in MickaCoo's ability to stay afloat as we develop our organization, support and funding streams. We thank you! And we still need support. Are there ways that Pepsi can continue to help us help birds that otherwise would be overlooked and underserved? </span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">MickaCoo has received very positive feedback which can be seen at Great Nonprofits- </span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/mickacoo-pigeon-dove-rescue-a-project-of-community-initiatives</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Further details (and pictures) about MickaCoo's activities and social impact can see seen in stories at the following links:</span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/10/sustainability-mickacoos-next-steps.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/10/sustainability-mickacoos-next-steps.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/11/community-initiatives-says-yes-to.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/11/community-initiatives-says-yes-to.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/12/thank-you-we-did-it.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/12/thank-you-we-did-it.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/01/peninsula-humane-society-spca-is.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/01/peninsula-humane-society-spca-is.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/03/great-big-news.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/03/great-big-news.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/04/mickacoo-volunteers-pigeons-work-krcbs.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/04/mickacoo-volunteers-pigeons-work-krcbs.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/04/pigeons-on-catwalk.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/04/pigeons-on-catwalk.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/05/garage-sales-support-mickacoo-pigeon.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/05/garage-sales-support-mickacoo-pigeon.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/05/never-buy-release-birds-please-share.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/05/never-buy-release-birds-please-share.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/06/opal-georgie-before-after.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/06/opal-georgie-before-after.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/06/mickacoo-at-maddies-fund-adoptathon.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/06/mickacoo-at-maddies-fund-adoptathon.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/globalgiving-2012-photo-contest.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/globalgiving-2012-photo-contest.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/mickacoo-employs-director.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/mickacoo-employs-director.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/elliot-buster.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/elliot-buster.html</a></span></p> <p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/you-are-heroes.html">http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/you-are-heroes.html</a></span></p><p style=" font-style: normal; margin: 0px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdPjttB7xG0TEfXXE0B-EdqPl9Fxtfxedlkj26au4Nv2ApenCDh5Ud7fVse6ubtqPhcuwod_5SMBqsd8-bHZJfz9E6MKATszeSbwS42P3-JI7USXPTQyvRGDWRycCb8f3l5SI3Q/s320/Screen+shot+2011-10-24+at+2.33.18+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782919861991103106" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px; " /></p><p style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>After three attempts (in January, June and September 2011- we won!)</i></span></p><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIPajtgtYbRHTSyPnAMelLvVHVrGewG7Dlx1IkaRVbGFOOXVQcivzkCZDZVriOH6HWU64SUyoT52vUuktq22S4k2LKPWL8xPg8f4OX4NqaFQoslFq9AUb0D8xRhs-mVBHQFZoGw/s1600/DSCF4895.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIPajtgtYbRHTSyPnAMelLvVHVrGewG7Dlx1IkaRVbGFOOXVQcivzkCZDZVriOH6HWU64SUyoT52vUuktq22S4k2LKPWL8xPg8f4OX4NqaFQoslFq9AUb0D8xRhs-mVBHQFZoGw/s320/DSCF4895.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782921016045408434" /></a></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Pepsi grant money helped us to be continue going out in the community, increasing awareness at every chance we could get</span></i><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhniEVyZo_1wAerbEg5zJWDuD3sWhSB3hOuYZdupIIsjI_wNncjl5bes90hDhI1JvQt2ij_5_jtk2fJRkCg6FUHWz4fBWrqFJfSuJW_Ulew1IFLt4vb84aZbbz9Z1JRwhVxxBNh0Q/s320/DSCF3404.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782920972313481250" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">We began our transition towards sustainability and became a Community Initiatives project in Nov 2011</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmw_aWL4ZGFw3wfvk5zBw41LGJDq8c5QILYbTAB0qoyoEga0DeWNLUovw6EmPc5IgpJbGHcNXSrYPEXOvxA-1yXVhSgnZNkB8ciF0lLBZIFPOV2IjVw1pIGGpnhZkBhdYXq7xZfQ/s320/DSCF8897.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782919900518697218" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">MickaCoo volunteers helped build aviaries for foster and adopted birds</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeTKUd1tWRqCIy2RKrVNjT4cSv6qZvK9I6u2b0aGSIsBGbuLWGqnY6-cE2LjqTBjVbfMdROZpNSDug9jHw4LWyec9Kl7PJ2PgPrbH9uw_pap0gGoMXzcDutuuYSpZxL0COVSFqfQ/s320/DSCF6313.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782920980203802946" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo8nEtJuDUV5vJxmmFPHY_nhhd0iz0UoHiYrvW8dzHKiYKvMdKJvOfWhAkVWPBz8psNleoumfnVy190uEK6NPOUj0EEnKxWevURU4i0BROYRS2R18BbLy5KIepqIepLQC2J0pkg/s320/DSCF7244.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782919884758001602" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Bay Area shelters are becoming more engaged in helping to care for and place domestic pigeons and doves. </span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7JgIwFB_JYI5ekWmIOyiHFps0WTtuo7zgeVBwu039BlxGWMyW30ggbYH41e7Dqts5v5D3QnfH2sJYyq7s6omlXNGa-0fHOpSYqSnZwmoajD9r55GpC2YSaDgUlIHCvS-d00ljZA/s320/IMG_8445.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782919880251737506" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Including domestic pigeons & doves is starting to become "mainstream"</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjzoS-LE5qZb6A5WD9_Qe_M7ITWKZXtl45QNTWgEx72C97BdMda9A99I3KrMjRd-mHiRYZGWMhVZwyL0kvDV3oV4p1o8TbKWxYIrU9N9JkPoMLclZ1LYgH3H0bJwqRL4O46ccfQA/s320/DSCF7463.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782920995370708402" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Exciting new partnerships will help MickaCoo to grow enough to meet the overwhelming rescue demand</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ok9lvjKCKVzjXsWT3xS1kO5TXMtKnZIoz_2_zc0ocl1pTEnG6S3Qxv69yoyHwAiG-BNOkX6doZH918ZOK_LaHRTwf09as_6BmmyefGUo2loO8eOJ-18yux1zkDg1jD5nM9o4EQ/s320/DSCF7532.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782919868452645826" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Humane Education presentations help ensure that future community leaders will see the value in compassion for all</span></i></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8fUBsGpfkIkfMelgtwSPpP8eb9dAgtLSUCEmKgrB5GR9Z1uCN7CuaVG7CFeErfwYGLOOf4jsaOIV7W9WsuA-sKbUw-s7sBkKktXC4K_HCZdkchngRoKsXvHS2sR6z1vb8P992w/s1600/FinalPepsiBudgetReport.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 151px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8fUBsGpfkIkfMelgtwSPpP8eb9dAgtLSUCEmKgrB5GR9Z1uCN7CuaVG7CFeErfwYGLOOf4jsaOIV7W9WsuA-sKbUw-s7sBkKktXC4K_HCZdkchngRoKsXvHS2sR6z1vb8P992w/s320/FinalPepsiBudgetReport.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782922051463441938" /></a></div><div><i><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;">$10K towards helping MickaCoo save the lives of birds</span></i></div><div size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLjCDaNe1tAlN5jPUliMjKIdP_iAWT3xaJofKwBEMfVKnqvSwBh9FFvCFNaNqWJlczi_g4dFKBGQS2d8nBhtHyWYGpsnAy9UK-2QgZaazuwXbfdhltncV15PvVHn-CAGsoi5SCA/s1600/DSCF7343.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLjCDaNe1tAlN5jPUliMjKIdP_iAWT3xaJofKwBEMfVKnqvSwBh9FFvCFNaNqWJlczi_g4dFKBGQS2d8nBhtHyWYGpsnAy9UK-2QgZaazuwXbfdhltncV15PvVHn-CAGsoi5SCA/s320/DSCF7343.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5782921796756569890" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><i><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;">This is why we do what we do</span></i></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-73378794193830396272012-08-26T20:00:00.007-07:002012-10-23T14:06:33.227-07:00You Are Heroes!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimd-gOtJwfeXlOrJSusX0abthw2SRM7TGR87FPvWWmzA8VydXkKSqlOP_Mq4VnL5SMgFdO2R-wAznNYJpQmCjzLC6KechT2-NNezhpwedT8_j_xGM1bR816DZDpRi5YZcnkurElQ/s1600/MickaCooWeCanBeHeroes031-Copy.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; 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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">A lot of wonderful things happened at MickaCoo's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/100985560542384575252/MickaCooPresentsWeCanBeHeroes">We Can Be Heroes!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Volunteers, supporters, donors, adopters and friends- new and old- came together to meet the needs of unreleasable pigeons and doves that would </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">otherwise be killed for lack of homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue raised more than $2000!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">New (and much needed) volunteers are coming online!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Important partnerships are being created and/or strengthened!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Rescued pigeons Lola & Luigi found a <i>HOME!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And all of this is important because, as a friend of MickaCoo's so eloquently put it,</span></div>
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-61634462243404996982012-08-21T14:24:00.004-07:002012-08-21T14:49:50.420-07:00MORE FOSTERS & ADOPTERS URGENTLY NEEDED!<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.mickacoo.org/">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue</a> is over capacity with 93 birds on our foster care caseload. Currently we only have true capacity for 75 and so we are having to turn new birds in need away, something we are extremely reluctant to do since we are the safety net for these vulnerable, unreleasable birds!</span><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">And, despite the improving efforts of Bay Area shelters to promote and adopt out the pigeons and doves in their care, their adoptions are very slow and new birds are coming in faster than they are being placed. <a href="http://www.peninsulahumanesociety.org/">Peninsula Humane Society</a>, <a href="http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=942">SF Animal Care & Control</a> and <a href="http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/">Marin Humane Society</a> all have lots of beautiful domestic, unreleasable pigeons and doves in need of homes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Normally, MickaCoo has been the safety valve for these underserved and overlooked birds- able to take in more when the shelters are running out of space. I am extremely concerned that, if we do not develop some significant adoptions in the coming weeks, that shelters will once again resort to killing healthy birds for lack of adopters.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Please, please, please- help us help these birds. Become a foster volunteer. Help us to fundraise. Help us to inspire and increase adoptions. Here are links to explore and share-</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/why-have-pigeon-for-pet.html">Why Have a Pigeon for a Pet?</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/12/ringneck-doves-as-pets-guest-post-by.html">Ringneck Doves as Pets</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.html">How to Create an Aviary for Rescued Pigeons (or Doves)</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html">MickaCoo's Available Birds</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html">Apply to Foster/Adopt</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html">Donate</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://mickacoo.eventbrite.com/">Attend MickaCoo Presents: We Can Be Heroes! in Tiburon 8/26</a></span></div><div><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Contact Us</span></a></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVNCUn1upXnhngNzwcY7iksKd3TeLt6b5nfJjsBBhN87ne38a1TeQdw3ZeC_g8tDWkm9a8nCF3PjRh5TAk5sJsvCDUw93P-RxZLZVZcydT7Vi9jfW4KN8WRTul_sNmgVJ31CZkQ/s1600/IMG_8972.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVNCUn1upXnhngNzwcY7iksKd3TeLt6b5nfJjsBBhN87ne38a1TeQdw3ZeC_g8tDWkm9a8nCF3PjRh5TAk5sJsvCDUw93P-RxZLZVZcydT7Vi9jfW4KN8WRTul_sNmgVJ31CZkQ/s320/IMG_8972.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779243496681849090" /></a> </span></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Juvenile king pigeons at SFACC</span></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOdtOKDkz1xrgXdOW79d3YnEHXdDnFs2WpgRpDso1sCLxjZ-7Fq76r4ODHQfELS89bOjF7FLiQdBePoY62PeWCGgBzKB6_P4p5qJVN3FOJjPq5rq8fwlj66hSz8f6ikyihlrL-w/s1600/DSCF7343.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOdtOKDkz1xrgXdOW79d3YnEHXdDnFs2WpgRpDso1sCLxjZ-7Fq76r4ODHQfELS89bOjF7FLiQdBePoY62PeWCGgBzKB6_P4p5qJVN3FOJjPq5rq8fwlj66hSz8f6ikyihlrL-w/s320/DSCF7343.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779243490793486690" /></a> </span></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Young adult king pigeon at SFACC<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZqcOQA56mrfuOyGBzCgO6ThELI4y-cnDAdh5Jf2w7MoDE2nCAixdkNg8bJGhRExYUHqS6d-_LQBcU_cvKdobOqpSpf-aouEMsCA_lWpNblcot-H93D5kAWxnVAZ9-kgkhNt-3rw/s1600/DSCF7244.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZqcOQA56mrfuOyGBzCgO6ThELI4y-cnDAdh5Jf2w7MoDE2nCAixdkNg8bJGhRExYUHqS6d-_LQBcU_cvKdobOqpSpf-aouEMsCA_lWpNblcot-H93D5kAWxnVAZ9-kgkhNt-3rw/s320/DSCF7244.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779243446505287698" /></a> </span></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Tame pied ringneck doves at SFACC</span></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div size="3" style=" ;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6F1ns97fx8JqyJwmvQ9-C-khFTCPte7pPHi3rd1A5fZlEsST2vm_5Fktd_9zpoA08ecfqqR_grUMk_1zI1NVV-qJg86Y2rHnsKPPf3PSkkKVf9Ezgo1NJsFB8vo5vDkjum6R0Aw/s320/DSCF7277.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779243476844688210" /></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Adult (bald, likely from being scalped as a baby by adult birds) homing pigeon at SFACC</span></div><div style=" ;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvVBQYp6C7GNzBDd1U_eAOchomAZ4Nu1-iUc_iaBFDaTgTTmWXg31SfUFedrs3zQUm3Cz-BmdBlyZIClb-s5w0TihgC76DsRQUfEh2XTG1ShGLpjwFTm4mRGqhv3hBgXWP5XfSg/s320/DSCF7270.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779243457920764050" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div size="3" style=" "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioCd0EEaFMeNnxgocQ0HxhR5ISEy9cpZBK-YCgffbwgZpHvQxGHpiOvtJZo6f5daWUWVvG3W2qPA_Xoa_txaF2yMRgJy-HghuGbjdLL1BSWWeYQmqGBOXN6H7aRp8SrY865lURzw/s1600/DSCF7352.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioCd0EEaFMeNnxgocQ0HxhR5ISEy9cpZBK-YCgffbwgZpHvQxGHpiOvtJZo6f5daWUWVvG3W2qPA_Xoa_txaF2yMRgJy-HghuGbjdLL1BSWWeYQmqGBOXN6H7aRp8SrY865lURzw/s320/DSCF7352.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779246750706960322" /></a> </div><div size="3" style=" "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58e4yMbXhHGW49u73ShzCBk8h7VDSyB31fNCZDjq2uhhtGzCWz_Y7uxEYq-jQ2MpZ-r_WPxLCU8X6K0PnxY27ZH0DCH9EldTv8TycSrYVL7r5CRtR51vLRuA6qhg573fhKCem2A/s1600/DSCF7341.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58e4yMbXhHGW49u73ShzCBk8h7VDSyB31fNCZDjq2uhhtGzCWz_Y7uxEYq-jQ2MpZ-r_WPxLCU8X6K0PnxY27ZH0DCH9EldTv8TycSrYVL7r5CRtR51vLRuA6qhg573fhKCem2A/s320/DSCF7341.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779246628086042610" /></a></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-71766097792144934502012-08-21T13:10:00.008-07:002012-08-21T17:38:35.123-07:00MickaCoo Employs Director<div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Dear Friends of MickaCoo,</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">MickaCoo's Advisory Committee is thrilled to announce that as of August 1, 2012, Elizabeth Young has been officially hired as the Executive Director of MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue.</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Those of you who know Elizabeth are aware of how integral Elizabeth is to the organization. Recognizing the plight of King pigeons in animal shelters, then establishing a thriving foster and adopter network, Elizabeth has worked tirelessly for years to save the lives of these gentle birds.</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Elizabeth is not only MickaCoo's founder, but its heart and soul; each of us owe her a debt of gratitude for the many ways she has touched our lives. Unfortunately, one cannot live on gratitude alone. By bringing Elizabeth on as a paid employee (albeit at a very modest salary that doesn't fairly reflect the amount of time she puts in), MickaCoo has been able to secure her continuing services.</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Under Elizabeth's guidance, MickaCoo saved more than 500 domestic pigeons and doves, including over 300 in the last year. We are grateful to Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue for giving us our start, to Community Initiatives for acting in the role of fiscal sponsor as our organization has grown, and most of all, to all the volunteers and adopters who help save lives each and every day. </span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Let's continue this life-saving labor of love: adopt, foster, volunteer, donate, and spread the word!</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Sincerely, </span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">MickaCoo Advisory Committee</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Cheryl Dickinson, Chair</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Margie Gear, Co-Vice Chair</span></div><div style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Clare Malone Prichard, Co-Vice Chair</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzhUWrTZWBrOpTQOy8mizX1OmVEBS4ZkNGjBfZtMFVO4aNSDIoEK1FyHVACQjarcR29CXAY23QS-ILDt2Rm1vRokF5ctwSxvreG1DwPJ8M0DN1YLXUsUxGhXbRjmIvjAmIhjO4RQ/s1600/scanned+exec+dir+announce.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzhUWrTZWBrOpTQOy8mizX1OmVEBS4ZkNGjBfZtMFVO4aNSDIoEK1FyHVACQjarcR29CXAY23QS-ILDt2Rm1vRokF5ctwSxvreG1DwPJ8M0DN1YLXUsUxGhXbRjmIvjAmIhjO4RQ/s400/scanned+exec+dir+announce.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779232580626766146" /></a><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Previous Related Posts:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/03/salary-worthy.html">Salary Worthy? 3/27/11</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/03/salary-worthy-survey-responses.html">Salary Worthy? Survey Responses 3/30/11</a></span></div><div><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/10/sustainability-mickacoos-next-steps.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Sustainability & MickaCoo's Next Steps: Fledging from the Nest 10/24/11</span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/11/community-initiatives-says-yes-to.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Community Initiatives Says Yes to MickaCoo! 11/23/11</span></a></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-45477673864878769402012-08-08T13:12:00.005-07:002012-08-22T12:10:40.720-07:00Elliot & Buster<span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">On July 25th, a woman named Julisa rescued two baby king pigeons that her neighbor found standing on a curb in Redwood City, CA. While MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue is alerted to many baby kings found stranded and helpless in the world after having been "set free" like this, this is our first video of them standing there, awaiting their fate. (Courtesy of Julisa)</span><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DYRAiPb4Ypw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Though completely inexperienced with bird rescue and new to king pigeons, Julisa recognized how completely vulnerable the babies were and waited with them for 90 minutes until an Animal Control Officer from Peninsula Humane Society (PHS) arrived to pick them up. Once they went to the shelter, she contacted staff there to stay updated on their status. One (seen on the curb in the video and who I have since named Buster) came in very healthy and strong (though young, helpless and completely lacking in the ability to survive in the wild). The other, who I named Elliot, arrived very sick and weak and, despite the shelter's efforts, declined further rather than gain strength as would have been expected.</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family:arial;">Mariela is a staff member at PHS who works very hard to care for a whole department of "Smalls" and "Exotics" (including small mammals, reptiles, birds, fowl and hermit crabs at last check) and to find adopters for these too often overlooked shelter residents. She and the vet staff did their best to nurture and strengthen Elliot but he grew weaker and </span><span style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family:arial;">even more emaciated. On August 8th, he was scheduled to be euthanized at 3 pm. Even though she knew MickaCoo was full up, Mariela, as she always does, went the extra mile and contacted me and, even though we were full up, I said yes to taking in both baby kings. (Buster was thriving and not facing euthanasia but Elliot needed the comfort and support of his baby pigeon friend.) I said yes to these babies to support Mariela in the extraordinary effort she is making to improve the survival and adoption rates for domestic pigeons & doves in the shelter. MickaCoo cannot save all these birds alone. <i>We need the help of shelter staff like Mariela.</i></span></span></span></p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; text-align: left; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">I was stuck at my desk and unable to go get them but Mariela said, No problem, I'll bring them on my lunch hour. And she did.</span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q_OP0LOiMHwZbGnPB2FfN22ENg8LgUdITA6JY8aHWMqyLgPva7-51Pdg9YlpCNf9RV2nQ_av49oZqJoQSJA-CgpG8XSTOJvjFIQMgkTYnEhdSXOK6IpBlerNmS5VUuEwhIiY8g/s1600/DSCF7008.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q_OP0LOiMHwZbGnPB2FfN22ENg8LgUdITA6JY8aHWMqyLgPva7-51Pdg9YlpCNf9RV2nQ_av49oZqJoQSJA-CgpG8XSTOJvjFIQMgkTYnEhdSXOK6IpBlerNmS5VUuEwhIiY8g/s320/DSCF7008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778866246845356226" /></a><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;">Mariela and sick baby king pigeon Elliot</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZ1I_VsKMgFBD5Vs2CIL5EoTNOxxMxIZCYG_N7CCuG5DHea7GsQx2dhqBue72_Z673atEcAOz5ctwAKeSErrb2OeXRonPbJrYKPVfXGPfRpqVwKctNiBOpST6w9NfeMcW03hcMg/s320/DSCF7011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778866259168980018" /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i style="font-size: large; ">Healthy baby Buster watching over Elliot</i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i style="font-size: large; "><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5L6DNxnii3VWnnvP8x6FPn89sFxvZXC7n_27zrnF3Ov7fGbQX7yNMDkmAhNFmwetvjaW3GaeZaEPmAqc-p1NWo5y8yjMVmkQrzurJ6wtm127c6zfpZ1LI3wW_H7DPPxlohhAZXA/s320/DSCF7024.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778866269835128226" style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;">Elliot, in front, was so weak and emaciated that I told Mariela this was likely hospice care</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirYZsN4Jop2xnq3OVgM_Dfu7EnViuYbp9Fso78ua3wtzIQhcBTn2eiWHdrLEXUWvkBZ7SKC6Qv_yxo0D4LbNUNVCdjNNhffoyyaVkySE6ehHMUVy_3LApkp2jvFGIX6A8PFnMucQ/s1600/DSCF7027.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirYZsN4Jop2xnq3OVgM_Dfu7EnViuYbp9Fso78ua3wtzIQhcBTn2eiWHdrLEXUWvkBZ7SKC6Qv_yxo0D4LbNUNVCdjNNhffoyyaVkySE6ehHMUVy_3LApkp2jvFGIX6A8PFnMucQ/s320/DSCF7027.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778866237455258994" /></a> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZZ-NL7go0pUcm6wnTzyUqpRxpRB6RgKDKHP8BuWy7pNxLa8KYoTzpyuydU_uhIYG23mIk_sniMVXoZ4hBOdLZabjvQa2npGObwHPGkvRW1MuXaE84lngRDRxA002ULoSyMEcLFA/s320/DSCF7025.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778865841694829410" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiXEEZaM188yLyXiVc5GosWGqLuG4ecAs-JK-DQLkQiNnqnopHdpjZ6hmPW9G0PfTvaTyjbmSwNz7eLS00uZa3udPF5w-FmnP4HLyFmsE6AIU3Sz8z2hmyPJ3MN0as1Ziak1MWw/s320/IMG_8803.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778862421424137474" /></div><div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot lived through the night and basked in the morning sun</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUGPdDwVXLDadHB0M2qN-reCQV0tx3rps5OAYEMjH89i0wdaaiWZ1QN9B4WFf9qoTfnn8PiR7P3Q9w_fCmjTJ5T7b20EiG3HcByiN-57qO_9L27GEFMgp03tkzSzZk7lNIdQxnA/s320/IMG_8867.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778862400713106434" /></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Buster was full of energy and I gave him some recreational time outside in the aviary</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><br /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoN6NNDdYOYQLnESqcYieh7a_SvJ-FkAKd40FukLiGjkoP5NcrlOQFzQ8hmP5YIyKpEEJnDNTUbZXdz3Pd68evWFYyHCzL4zuIQWLQ_m4jRi0Yi-5OZE-LEzRBGeeedRgasG-6g/s320/IMG_8859.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778862408542201458" style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /> </div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Weak baby Elliot sat with me and watched</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmC1oNJsCXD9xupaByAPbfYS5Z_73APcsuKFrk5HZOEGKKWz67Xit9S_alUkKHL6oyX7m8DmdW76c9rEVAtnbiVRQ4fkqR2FxdN2HFg9TsU0jAup8g1rWiDxeGT6bw1QVrVyz4-g/s320/IMG_8933.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778860021141478722" style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Buster rejoined his friend in the afternoon and continued his mentoring and encouragement</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQeRoO6k_Gq3Iv8nUM8lov0QgN6YHi7mileVf2dDkf6qNuCeEUwIe8QjT5fnYph63zxNQJbuldi6H6RJ0MMCYF1XZ9vF-qw_Pvp5TSTGMBzmOk7hLMlmoMFyNJoCFtUJHCezhcQ/s320/IMG_8890.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778860045287829970" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Another sunny morning</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5N4IIiTfudxkEkcFp-8b2sDjcDNPpDDv62bba5pyLaPRpjqRtrEyEEFxu0Di7fdaS0PLWgu4HnyVmI8siaGcmioc3AKlD4nUisDu2V-EYT2kqPiyIKlz4IQWxKcIF3efOLafQpw/s320/IMG_8918.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778860034296510146" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot arrived so weak and emaciated that initially I hand-fed only watery formula. Once I was confident in his ability to process that, I also started hand feeding thawed frozen peas, corn and carrots. Only a few at a time and every hour during the day.</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uzmDofAvPiFSpFyT-tf9wFGrPcGK-Zosstygbeo_RIXBvavS63G1Oim83f5wMnRf3vZPgJk0Cr9dgqy2uPnS8DI0mjLbu2OV9w6y6KBIkrwYW9dbLTAzROTwYWGeCylvm59WXQ/s1600/IMG_8976.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uzmDofAvPiFSpFyT-tf9wFGrPcGK-Zosstygbeo_RIXBvavS63G1Oim83f5wMnRf3vZPgJk0Cr9dgqy2uPnS8DI0mjLbu2OV9w6y6KBIkrwYW9dbLTAzROTwYWGeCylvm59WXQ/s320/IMG_8976.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778860009445775666" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot hung on though he remained terribly weak</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNcKOj0Rz35Z9mnmHNEqm-VpJnNL85tTLvqF7uEQAtGKzl4BWHd5gj-DL-4anO9MYojhdMzOPgJXsqQAbOv0YcHOvBLNDmD2CpirXBmgjHWVdtJus8xLpP2A1LWhzYqbFdXPbHg/s1600/IMG_8992.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNcKOj0Rz35Z9mnmHNEqm-VpJnNL85tTLvqF7uEQAtGKzl4BWHd5gj-DL-4anO9MYojhdMzOPgJXsqQAbOv0YcHOvBLNDmD2CpirXBmgjHWVdtJus8xLpP2A1LWhzYqbFdXPbHg/s320/IMG_8992.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778859999077030274" /></a> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQOPsjT9OUZAb9ehniPJU3XXdp92rbY7dfm4XXrShVbmSkX78dBQoG_CLESV122HjwLmsH2VX2meeOk4tmlbg9LIzx8BeVONnjL86G1SzjEsdh0Iky3PYxIZAWErtrOiGYf85Hg/s320/IMG_9004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858786041672962" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Buster continued to thrive</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkfAfYLKleu8SIc6ISzTw3FrpEYhyphenhyphenCRXoKO0ZfDxc83bd9G1FG8jqFTR8O9FPl9HTNzAGcdXw0xJPZRTjxNiLd1GY6Ye0F2ah4dh5q-H-srq1jh6r8G1BWQnqJEmM4zo_kdCOGg/s1600/IMG_9007.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkfAfYLKleu8SIc6ISzTw3FrpEYhyphenhyphenCRXoKO0ZfDxc83bd9G1FG8jqFTR8O9FPl9HTNzAGcdXw0xJPZRTjxNiLd1GY6Ye0F2ah4dh5q-H-srq1jh6r8G1BWQnqJEmM4zo_kdCOGg/s320/IMG_9007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858777351310082" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Here, on 8/13, an only slightly stronger Elliot watches his friend Buster hang out in the aviary</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8ZIeYLhjeu4WthOIa4YfdgMBSo01W4sT_Y7Ncw3HKao5berq-55a68nzjlscmKqVbqfSqTjT_7v0QCj6Xk4wYLRGW9ULZUax7YGcQW_et2A8qHTDxfYg6q1bb5Nk_nQ6kXfgbg/s1600/IMG_9010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8ZIeYLhjeu4WthOIa4YfdgMBSo01W4sT_Y7Ncw3HKao5berq-55a68nzjlscmKqVbqfSqTjT_7v0QCj6Xk4wYLRGW9ULZUax7YGcQW_et2A8qHTDxfYg6q1bb5Nk_nQ6kXfgbg/s320/IMG_9010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858768637100130" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">To me, it looked like Elliot was thinking, Someday...</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBIIlhF2zg0ur15D_G4w_rO6VVB9iTTAmwojSIekaYEG4JQXFHawHLyJnrdnTOU9gFlvOMMoABxr5Ct44EmO1ZNmwblTQy4PSreYhZCvtedSK4Dy51Cgq9N0oz5BaTv5SSD1lRg/s1600/IMG_9012.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBIIlhF2zg0ur15D_G4w_rO6VVB9iTTAmwojSIekaYEG4JQXFHawHLyJnrdnTOU9gFlvOMMoABxr5Ct44EmO1ZNmwblTQy4PSreYhZCvtedSK4Dy51Cgq9N0oz5BaTv5SSD1lRg/s320/IMG_9012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858756475366050" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCoPqCfTxbgS7ftbufKuBAxqiMyOZi3OolgXI-lzpATpRw9_VRjQxzLtm7_iuRF0ZX7GoxQ8ghf1AjDjnOev7WpPrWV88-jsskFrvBOE24CdMPowvKeFG3VfeQ5rdNXEl8RlTqTQ/s1600/IMG_9027.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCoPqCfTxbgS7ftbufKuBAxqiMyOZi3OolgXI-lzpATpRw9_VRjQxzLtm7_iuRF0ZX7GoxQ8ghf1AjDjnOev7WpPrWV88-jsskFrvBOE24CdMPowvKeFG3VfeQ5rdNXEl8RlTqTQ/s320/IMG_9027.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858745654500626" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot was well able to digest the thawed peas and corn and so I again promoted him to a heartier diet- this time a cookie-dough consistency of high-protein Harrison's pellets (mixed with water and a little honey)</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmzWe2Fgpjo7Aignd_0edz_mRZ4KHTpBDmjNGCHDKKXuZJ4qdcB_dX57knWN88TX3u77hRdntqSA0gEcTkuEwLVFW8paRj-Ezc4gmessEyUs63Evahfb1maBfbGZyeHepSACfmg/s1600/IMG_9035.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmzWe2Fgpjo7Aignd_0edz_mRZ4KHTpBDmjNGCHDKKXuZJ4qdcB_dX57knWN88TX3u77hRdntqSA0gEcTkuEwLVFW8paRj-Ezc4gmessEyUs63Evahfb1maBfbGZyeHepSACfmg/s320/IMG_9035.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858275882534898" /></a> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRIm5nS6WksfM0Kks9vSESuMHgmFTui53OTM7_IKErRk79n3zkiiowFV17_6RSkI_ay0mWcjW2dSs35jssXXO1PSi0E6GndYcwy-aLjMhiSnhHrupil5h_5QGDmnmNHE4DWLhxw/s320/IMG_9040.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858263925713506" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Though his improvement has been very gradual, Elliot is improving and this little adventure down from the top of his cage was a welcome sign of it</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGQqNE6FuQDVXnywBJWLHTvNhJYN1CU5h66UfYOGbTeDV7QC6bjtM-OWy6LwdRj7RB6lKAAFFEP6Ez91xJZ6jDzwpDWtLaOskbK5YRU03E0ru8NJZ4A3SD8zh0aDgEHrsZI6JSA/s1600/DSCF7393.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGQqNE6FuQDVXnywBJWLHTvNhJYN1CU5h66UfYOGbTeDV7QC6bjtM-OWy6LwdRj7RB6lKAAFFEP6Ez91xJZ6jDzwpDWtLaOskbK5YRU03E0ru8NJZ4A3SD8zh0aDgEHrsZI6JSA/s320/DSCF7393.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778865811624398050" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">On 8/14, Elliot & Buster had a very special visitor- Julisa, the woman who rescued them from their helpless plight on a street curb</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_LQ9r9d5pPp_Jt11uMV8x7IqCFzNX-EbkPxgGV5nNLuioF4TwTHTsV-xQwwyBYHSHxeo0y6lBLrCk7mZ92Q9NoY219aoeT1Oz5b7sDFp2E-Rj3YwQzi0-Y6NBK4Z_PrKGM6qSg/s320/DSCF7386.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778865802801529922" /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i><span style=" ;font-size:100%;">Though he still isn't self-feeding, Elliot thrilled us by at least </span>beaking<span style=" ;font-size:100%;"> some pigeon food</span></i></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HTZF3O9GjjDiFa0Gs0DFqXWOj9Xvtz6GXdElishn0WZhUH4m_9RE7xiplVCVH7xHgJ6wKv53S4DBfsYqLvsZTdmkLFBl6-riC8UjjRdDzETFCuAl81NJMgHJjHqniF6WfYIQ3A/s1600/DSCF7379.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HTZF3O9GjjDiFa0Gs0DFqXWOj9Xvtz6GXdElishn0WZhUH4m_9RE7xiplVCVH7xHgJ6wKv53S4DBfsYqLvsZTdmkLFBl6-riC8UjjRdDzETFCuAl81NJMgHJjHqniF6WfYIQ3A/s320/DSCF7379.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778862432872746066" /></a> </div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUuSw8wqbjleH_jcK5UX1W9yDlRJpyaRPEGtj0e-NKOX8uvgUD8VhNjMgczv6QdEzLkCdov4yomC38bbrXbUm2g6vDmY-nYyZQ0frZq2kxRZgm90zdlQSqhCK64uigh1u__NzMg/s320/DSCF7426.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778865831017248034" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQMUKmIIxKkyMuTqIZ8qj-nd2TJ0aLrZBCXfOTxhxLcfSULJxPRsTqqj6TVSvU46t5LnmOYHgXgETFa2nsEISyOWTCnm7qGJb2crJIGmVd7DNOe5duhdhX8iAXsFPDHMrjHyVeA/s320/DSCF7403.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778865825646094098" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUD1U8w_o-OaiaPLWJv_82qluaQu1QAsdsM4eVUdpTFVcdHzZKNhJMEu8VW2FGF4ppTseQlwPs5io0C4PDL_fuCnXPEhV_tU2004bfJuLTGd6nfWb0yKMLmvhZESrB_f2lvn5Uqw/s1600/IMG_9051.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUD1U8w_o-OaiaPLWJv_82qluaQu1QAsdsM4eVUdpTFVcdHzZKNhJMEu8VW2FGF4ppTseQlwPs5io0C4PDL_fuCnXPEhV_tU2004bfJuLTGd6nfWb0yKMLmvhZESrB_f2lvn5Uqw/s320/IMG_9051.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858252215855074" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Buster and his friend Elliot</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuqVtmJxDd8t491-sh761HIbxalyQPYxHyAtBJtbXNVFl0BxjAyOQT98pYP7m-RuaUCc0yMy-N5RSdPqFt7pMVuF8HXJ-QJCXiv5peZgHG6goa4yn1fkVOX3GxngryXdLQCreqw/s1600/IMG_9062.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuqVtmJxDd8t491-sh761HIbxalyQPYxHyAtBJtbXNVFl0BxjAyOQT98pYP7m-RuaUCc0yMy-N5RSdPqFt7pMVuF8HXJ-QJCXiv5peZgHG6goa4yn1fkVOX3GxngryXdLQCreqw/s320/IMG_9062.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858244129524690" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Buster keeping company with foster doves Kishu & Miso</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7IP4DxzGBtbSwAVRYkOoTmNSLxAXf4eIcVu5uFZ4m92ye-P1nctvRZRttmIYIWjIUJONA32Z1A-8wzM24abpFAdlTckd0ah5f8DUV6uXoXLotoeeIeuhcSrXBDFNWBXM0BPvog/s1600/IMG_9082.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7IP4DxzGBtbSwAVRYkOoTmNSLxAXf4eIcVu5uFZ4m92ye-P1nctvRZRttmIYIWjIUJONA32Z1A-8wzM24abpFAdlTckd0ah5f8DUV6uXoXLotoeeIeuhcSrXBDFNWBXM0BPvog/s320/IMG_9082.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778858234329702306" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Hanging out together in the afternoon</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgub0MNfRFn_9XMbqwhXrQ1Wo2jXrIM0JBpUs61sBHLxpntJr5bYFMPOtIOH92eIWjttTjoXgMAvdhSFwJkUIcCoTvJHJn-pqP-IwTS681VEa0SsBYpB42Qg-pXOOTKCgJ4eB6XUg/s1600/IMG_9101.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgub0MNfRFn_9XMbqwhXrQ1Wo2jXrIM0JBpUs61sBHLxpntJr5bYFMPOtIOH92eIWjttTjoXgMAvdhSFwJkUIcCoTvJHJn-pqP-IwTS681VEa0SsBYpB42Qg-pXOOTKCgJ4eB6XUg/s320/IMG_9101.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857664439736290" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Snuggled up together to go to sleep for the night</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeedphlOS012PsS7m1KWwAjnk_m4Hxq4EI_l-Lc4Cwr5b1umLrDYsUNP3lzl4_Kesnh6rxuT22Vh4VlaTfm8oXJi9i63es8DXGKSJ2YKxv3OJx6a0LHlrSc_7zoTiysnMuWZDklg/s1600/IMG_9107.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeedphlOS012PsS7m1KWwAjnk_m4Hxq4EI_l-Lc4Cwr5b1umLrDYsUNP3lzl4_Kesnh6rxuT22Vh4VlaTfm8oXJi9i63es8DXGKSJ2YKxv3OJx6a0LHlrSc_7zoTiysnMuWZDklg/s320/IMG_9107.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857650877674818" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">A big thrill on 8/16! Elliot had gained 80 grams, up to 340 from the deathly 260 from when he arrived (compared to Buster's weight of 450 grams)</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZiZAxF2I73gFmNTXsNfI3BZEBz65YIHUGY5DDdCvPgnxg4hGdemOqHyyBlguLI320l5dyUxZMeaHVShItp46m-5mfmV1cuFpg6MWxsBaaVoNG2hQoELPsXWjLoAT3PZtfQqD9w/s1600/IMG_9135.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZiZAxF2I73gFmNTXsNfI3BZEBz65YIHUGY5DDdCvPgnxg4hGdemOqHyyBlguLI320l5dyUxZMeaHVShItp46m-5mfmV1cuFpg6MWxsBaaVoNG2hQoELPsXWjLoAT3PZtfQqD9w/s320/IMG_9135.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857641079797938" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Buster & Elliot hanging out with doves Kishu & Miso</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Cx-Iol48TozZI0nT6a4U9cow-LHqmKyzRDHs9Xn9wJgPZYbVrueb-of9tiXOhEq7DiG0jp3nz3AgE2ABMqGgMr0-d0EPEau5BsuD_CP-1idJODo4cCYq-NlV4PBO2aMwLW8X6A/s1600/IMG_9156.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Cx-Iol48TozZI0nT6a4U9cow-LHqmKyzRDHs9Xn9wJgPZYbVrueb-of9tiXOhEq7DiG0jp3nz3AgE2ABMqGgMr0-d0EPEau5BsuD_CP-1idJODo4cCYq-NlV4PBO2aMwLW8X6A/s320/IMG_9156.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857635866309986" /></a> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryQ4xMWgHp9n6w6FMu6mKCwvHuwLpAsVLun01Vh4nCViW5hY77dqm9bYxhDqFc16Banz9KtaHcCs4xGRUhqMsjGcJMEwwCPv5D_EWzZVhso2hD7HHug_vl8lF1ibAn7eE-tNmtQ/s320/IMG_9174.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857620618515010" style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5j1R34_JuoWMyabp-hik2-grqQAjO_HuG4Nm5FDAJvbdoSanH6DZCdG17Q0u-rBhki2ZqNQCVDBB3wE_OGmAsPCmA4dlvGeQUXTZ92RvoxRlXYfgku0PxISBjTWz_LwERZemHg/s1600/IMG_9183.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5j1R34_JuoWMyabp-hik2-grqQAjO_HuG4Nm5FDAJvbdoSanH6DZCdG17Q0u-rBhki2ZqNQCVDBB3wE_OGmAsPCmA4dlvGeQUXTZ92RvoxRlXYfgku0PxISBjTWz_LwERZemHg/s320/IMG_9183.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857012828858002" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Another big thrill- on 8/18 Elliot was strong enough to fly laterally for the first time (rather than just down)</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5BHHiekUUg8pZsk19PGgM6Ey2q62l1WW8GyXbk18KWlMKM88T5JByYO1Bp5BAvNXMs8O0QK6KU8pBmh-JYM1fdaTDB5OXz2iTKoqydHi6LTg2kFXi3O7qHUkKqXWAtLU9V-wXA/s1600/IMG_9186.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5BHHiekUUg8pZsk19PGgM6Ey2q62l1WW8GyXbk18KWlMKM88T5JByYO1Bp5BAvNXMs8O0QK6KU8pBmh-JYM1fdaTDB5OXz2iTKoqydHi6LTg2kFXi3O7qHUkKqXWAtLU9V-wXA/s320/IMG_9186.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778857001799500802" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>Proud Elliot</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMRtWa10CrMGL5EGbCs2BL0Bktp2QGRtzTjj98YKsgjPip0f0QN2AT-VpHYghk2s0l1hcZuus5SiIiYXwm6s7-W68Td8fVqultRjaBYCGYzgCDqBb6dVgzLHb9GztkK9HoHFZmQ/s1600/IMG_9233.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMRtWa10CrMGL5EGbCs2BL0Bktp2QGRtzTjj98YKsgjPip0f0QN2AT-VpHYghk2s0l1hcZuus5SiIiYXwm6s7-W68Td8fVqultRjaBYCGYzgCDqBb6dVgzLHb9GztkK9HoHFZmQ/s320/IMG_9233.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856991824736626" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Julisa and Rob joined me and Valiant at an outreach at Andy's (100% Rescue) Pet Shop. They may foster Elliot & Buster.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKAHNQ_fwH1Bxklrz77cN87kep05dF421eS_71lBjmbcz1c0Rgzen3RPYVeB0pfK8yyBKCzWcQk3RjXukFN5OeBG151bPZxkUpFIsE2nlR4k-y-GDUUD47oCxgWfZUF5pr5wlWUg/s1600/IMG_9259.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKAHNQ_fwH1Bxklrz77cN87kep05dF421eS_71lBjmbcz1c0Rgzen3RPYVeB0pfK8yyBKCzWcQk3RjXukFN5OeBG151bPZxkUpFIsE2nlR4k-y-GDUUD47oCxgWfZUF5pr5wlWUg/s320/IMG_9259.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856981646530722" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i>Elliot hanging out with me</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><i><br /></i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosQH7Nn0yZ0gNAchJVCn8BF3m27hObNrLp1y7Sus_PrXL2wfoR5egyEvrdVfVeoJLWQdHqKhjdFmtFemGIfJwPeLSWk6OpPmTqk5jehzE8tbHrgT_rIdhNQ9oa3kLEVej48rVWQ/s1600/IMG_9274.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosQH7Nn0yZ0gNAchJVCn8BF3m27hObNrLp1y7Sus_PrXL2wfoR5egyEvrdVfVeoJLWQdHqKhjdFmtFemGIfJwPeLSWk6OpPmTqk5jehzE8tbHrgT_rIdhNQ9oa3kLEVej48rVWQ/s320/IMG_9274.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856972275372402" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot & Buster on a walkabout</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOe3d6ao48cTtXusVphSVd0mSLi29NIwoFpCZSzN8q98UHGs1UkHKFUKXS-hBuKwZX5z6F5XEinUx8eb91HL0UACAnnzzbbyN7kuwPeEfk2s3xm0jdraKMFbufbS3Brm5wIzJthg/s320/DSCF7538.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856331856476194" /> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiK_kFxUdC3liTXDJt2Y6t8kCoNyHvtc1_fsRh58mEI62TJ3mODiKSIj96fYpxSHUUbgJFKrYsnojJFWxEnqho3VC_TGyI8qJXb8_VfTK2756EU8ay1j8vcTsa99YFPW9xZd5ncg/s320/DSCF7535.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856321935221954" /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i><span style="font-size:130%;">This is very healthy, expressive and wonderful Buster. He has been a most important friend to Elliot every step of the way.</span></i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8wLSChUhHfhPx3reIFEwMfS_90aWXT1OFWtsZS_7Qfl9BGNATsD6bujvdnCao1eaKFc5MrF0T7Gd53ashNcUvTEc8NhVsw12sLpjMFTmjRxEHB5x_b-0mSQR7IZkP56aCVJUFyw/s1600/DSCF7547.JPG" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8wLSChUhHfhPx3reIFEwMfS_90aWXT1OFWtsZS_7Qfl9BGNATsD6bujvdnCao1eaKFc5MrF0T7Gd53ashNcUvTEc8NhVsw12sLpjMFTmjRxEHB5x_b-0mSQR7IZkP56aCVJUFyw/s320/DSCF7547.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856343820774946" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot feeling well enough to do some recreational flapping!</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKJ-e86SYgMDqjF4LMEw5AMeqkCB4X8A4uN1-pc-YzwsmR064OZeBvvXzcWueAibEJ6HGRcG1PPYrydDpLf6PbEwq-r4jVVnWL_6cl8q5Wqx7iCIARetv0DZ7k__C5YpyFOhc9w/s320/DSCF7558.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856359639825170" style="font-size: 100%; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcSwDtC_FwVH8dqPOgvv5Wdqjj7JNqMxvWIZ6tB18bLhBHaAnmMTiLZiRK-ASyRTfhBs7gFeHX7_J2r2ryWIVGik8-sP9FdRKlJch_IK3KA8Z5X4NGJ9droIxEIHidyb7TJgkrDA/s320/DSCF7559.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778856366758595858" /></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i><span style="font-size:130%;">Elliot takes flight</span></i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:130%;"><i><br /></i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiEc2YUsdRh8SybmRjOOs-Hi8pTf5wVP59wYIPoh8y42yURXrGKfVGG6XKXu9oVxD7JVSerBJd6ByS5dsyr6vpR-lJG0GmtEjoxVcZFHzi_Ko299L5jnNwH2LWvHB5HdDNRem4Hg/s1600/IMG_9277.JPG" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiEc2YUsdRh8SybmRjOOs-Hi8pTf5wVP59wYIPoh8y42yURXrGKfVGG6XKXu9oVxD7JVSerBJd6ByS5dsyr6vpR-lJG0GmtEjoxVcZFHzi_Ko299L5jnNwH2LWvHB5HdDNRem4Hg/s320/IMG_9277.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5778884314648146674" /></a><br /></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>Elliot helping me write this post</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style="font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Please help MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue. We need volunteers, adopters and donors. Please help spread the word. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MickaCooRescue">Join us on Facebook.</a> <a href="http://www.communityin.org/mickaCoo.html">Donate.</a> <a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com">Contact us to get involved.</a></span></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><b><i>Thank you.</i></b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><b>8/21/12 UPDATE: </b></span><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">I'm thrilled to report that, for the first time since she (I think) was rescued, Elliot felt well enough to take a bath. (Pigeons love to bathe!) While she still looks a little rough around the edges, especially compared to perfect Buster, she's already a little fluffier. Video below.</span><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><b><br /></b></span><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2HaDnoK2eVYQ_D0OVuXHmlKrxluFone52nI6iCcuuUo7YCCOW2xUIaKazxhyphenhyphen9L82xmZX5cXEuV3TOS0hvcOFAFf7qsn0dF3uZWxMsHrEuIRU2CDZxoxoR3aBbQpW3slBaDlqUcw/s320/DSCF7592.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779575209051925842" /> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvKeeobshAsuJnNc3iZLOinqWLc7aMroRwl2j2UG0H6tW5fMhjKs0QYVcJiKJ_wfr-_EFC25p10Ud0LvREfmMP0DJHmvPiGzf0NkW_HSg3HiCaUS_r2-5xQZToFLOmFrRgOOkpQ/s320/DSCF7598.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779575218763184770" /><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQhyphenhyphen8xa2GcYDTDzDF8w8qcBm9p74NVcTcm2i5ex7hcftojHs7Ny-AmUSohY8xQVDkT24FnBk-sDBPwYzUylKCteijYjQn2FD77BqO9vuytWNzpq8Xs1fxoOl8I6YnuYZu4AMwqQ/s320/DSCF7623.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779575235461668178" /> <div style="font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5li43VVDGMjqQ-vnG7hH0y9m9ybEw0cMXsG8JKQ8nShv_Lgb4s_uMYMF1jKlhGlMFGI9t7u2TDy0iN-v7OEqzAI-FF6WJUPZ8PL5up_t7MIj5lerzJpxTwMkidVNRWTXUefqhpg/s320/DSCF7603.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779575226348116530" /> </div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvzxT_ejGeRrFGYp-Deynjhw5gt_jjZBrFxwHHHTlZF1uUtJ6CWcpDbDsTtgyFNJMEBn37berrXmCKaifLX-BSBMzJdtualhUXcrlKkXIKudFg6N_o54UpdP4VdA5vitFkJntBoA/s320/DSCF7644.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5779575245626158818" /><br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JolT0IcFi8o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-90006518852198568492012-08-01T07:42:00.008-07:002012-08-01T09:08:33.146-07:00GlobalGiving 2012 Photo Contest!<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">Please <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=45">vote for MickaCoo's entry</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">in the GlobalGiving 2012 Photo Contest!</span></div><div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjPTGAa-019ek5yUYdO48I-QaLKQJpdXa3GqfzlktKUU2cfyrSvzSUfeUF2g9ArphvCPp1Uloiq3munxI06_ytSBAmm37rXvz58h2ZILenK0brRTDdUOWNvx8ZCn0AuWB__5qig/s400/IMG_4062.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5771715893011174754" /></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><i>Homing pigeon Gypsy and her king pigeon mate Milkshake Mike were rescued </i></span></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%; ">by MickaCoo when their time ran out at the shelter.</i></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">We all need a little help now and then </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">and it feels good to help!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Your vote can help MickaCoo win $1000 and special promotion at GlobalGiving.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Please vote (only once per person) and share this throughout your network.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=45">Vote for MickaCoo's Gypsy & Milkshake Mike!</a></span></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">GlobalGiving Photo Contest runs today 8/1 - 8/15</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">One vote per person please!</span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Vote for MickaCoo here: </span></span><span style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=45">http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=45</a></span></span></span></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">To vote, enter your email address, click VOTE</span></div><div style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i>You must reply to confirmation email for your vote to count</i></span></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3" style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">MickaCoo, Gypsy, Milkshake Mike and </span></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">all the birds we save thank you!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div></div><br /><div class="fb-like" href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2012/08/globalgiving-2012-photo-contest.html" send="true" width="450" faces="true"></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-89812112761235339882012-07-20T10:35:00.002-07:002012-07-20T10:59:09.345-07:00National Geographic - Brilliant Beasts: Pigeon Genius<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Part 1 of 4</span></div><div><br /></div><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lS9bEZm1UFA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Part 2 of 4</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fwra-nGSTpY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; ">Part 3 of 4</span><br /><br /><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bu-Zfpr9JwA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-14572055187057622522012-07-03T13:00:00.003-07:002012-07-10T13:03:55.038-07:00MickaCoo Joins Rocket Dog Rescue in Petaluma<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue was thrilled to be included in Rocket Dog Rescue's super cool outreach event in Petaluma at Lagunita's Brewery on July 3rd. Check out the slide show...</span><br /><br /><table style="width:194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/100985560542384575252/MickaCooAtRocketDogSEmmylouHarrisAtLagunitasEvent?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8uRCJl6CbZs/T_XytpGXaAE/AAAAAAAArdU/MBX3yANt1nk/s160-c/MickaCooAtRocketDogSEmmylouHarrisAtLagunitasEvent.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/100985560542384575252/MickaCooAtRocketDogSEmmylouHarrisAtLagunitasEvent?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">MickaCoo at Rocket Dog's Emmylou Harris at Lagunitas Event</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyRUiKZQ1OtTbijW5dgEYbpPgcTivWtp7StwBkKt8HyaYv-4-0sJVH6tCcYY-QkWEXDXFAXINWhXHumFS-vYFD5Kx7OoTn9zjP4X0AcuT58PifP2YWUaIcuhQdMlrulWjvZi4Rg/s1600/EmmylouHarrisRocketDog070312.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyRUiKZQ1OtTbijW5dgEYbpPgcTivWtp7StwBkKt8HyaYv-4-0sJVH6tCcYY-QkWEXDXFAXINWhXHumFS-vYFD5Kx7OoTn9zjP4X0AcuT58PifP2YWUaIcuhQdMlrulWjvZi4Rg/s400/EmmylouHarrisRocketDog070312.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763633980825612354" /></a>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-82414599722938596262012-07-02T10:37:00.005-07:002012-07-02T14:20:58.718-07:00MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue Presents We Can Be Heroes!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">MickaCoo Adoption Party & Benefit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:x-large;">at the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:x-large;"><a href="http://rtc.sfsu.edu/bcc/cc/index.htm">Romberg Tiburon Center</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">Sunday, August 26th from 2-5!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZawMcTj6-fHJbpR143AvHeL6Anu41fssYujSdfUjBxu-zRWCbKovMTLCGb1PTy8utXAj7-6-8fcGJwp1BGhWMyeIlY8z-PTy2UHnH9rAwIgApnAWMiMgrusgG5zEvIU_zVyTjyA/s400/Heroes070212.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760685051892301570" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b>Two Bird Shows!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b>Delicious Refreshments </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b>Connect with Friends Old & New</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b>Buy Cool Stuff & Win Raffle Prizes</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b>Support MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b>and</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b><i>Meet Pigeons in Pants!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">Suggested $20 Donation at the Door</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">Please <a href="http://mickacoo.eventbrite.com/">RSVP</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">We need your help. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i>Please join us, invite others and donate items for the silent auction & raffle!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com">Click here to contact Elizabeth & support this effort.</a> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><i>We Can Be Heroes!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_kVSS8BRTZEx099G64UyQTxVdNUE3H2qh3vYAlF3-yl-3X_0nczocbChGDWuF38FQFBwk7HtRlHC58II7_mcTvZNHohYAs_gKCKJPztO9QdHh6YbKGHCiDjBr6SCE2ZJXiO8QsA/s1600/SuperPeppermint.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><b><i>FOSTERS AND ADOPTERS URGENTLY NEEDED!</i></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><b><i>Originally published in the <a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/newsletter/jul12/art3.html">Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue Newsletter</a></i></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">Domestic pigeons are unreleasable to the wild and face being killed (as "surplus") in animal shelters. But pigeons make fantastic pets! MickaCoo placed 333 with adopters in 2011 alone. Pigeons can live inside or outdoors (year-round). They are gentle, quiet and smart. They have great interpersonal skills and are very social with and loyal to their closest friends.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color:#0f1f99;"><a href="http://www.MickaCoo.org/">MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> has a wide variety of birds in need of homes (usually around 80) and we work closely with each potential adopter to identify just the right match for all involved. Here is a small sampling of th</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Helvetica;font-size:130%;">e potential pigeon pets available for your consideration.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">SINGLE WHITE FEMALE ISO FOREVER RELATIONSHIP</span></i></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color:#0f1f99;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/our-birds/frame4537.html">Olivia</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> is a lovely one-year old, tame king pigeon hen who is more comfortable with people than with birds. She’s very sweet and expressive and would love to spend her time with a special person. Single pigeons do</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Helvetica;font-size:130%;">best if their person is retired, works from home or can take them to work. Pigeons are calm and easy going, can wear pants (includes diaper plus harness) and are incredibly charming companions. <i>UPDATE: After one week of putting up with only a human for a mate, Olivia had enough and (wisely I think) married my widowed pet pigeon Walter so she is no longer available for adoption but we have lots and lots more just as special that are. EY</i></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Helvetica;font-size:130%;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJn0Ejagk_wmkLhJ_mOrj2i8XcxchqzFF9jw6XqmZST4nu2JyO892d4iiUj-tFrcopB-MP45nYiZVzwjpEZE_L6L7si21l-gBein0I6MewKr4TWSAVPh6FMs2x3ssXDDLc4ueOw/s320/Olivia_061512a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760623164839003554" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">SPECIAL NEEDS COUPLE SEEKING HOME FOR TWO</span></i></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color:#0f1f99;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/our-birds/frame4228.html">Pearl & Leo</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> are a bonded pair. Leo is a homing pigeon that got lost and was lucky enough to wind up in a city shelter. Pearl is a king pigeon (raised for squab and also rescued from a shelter) with a neck-twisting neurological disorder called torticollis. She is an incredibly good sport and never complains and Leo is very patient with her disability. While Pearl’s neck-twist is only present about 30% of the time, it makes her vulnerable to bullying in a flock. She and Leo would be very happy to live either inside or outdoors in a nice little home for two. These two are very funny </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Helvetica;font-size:130%;">and romantic characters who make their foster mom laugh everyday.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Helvetica;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBUbYSzj2_18thFBx3DzAsJpbp3Aw8PEGKMQ7XmX9k40a6HPLNJDeswp1sNb1r6-1TVxpvF_xqrBRjPGZUmyJSMNgWIfCmfbmw-uxBpcCQvSojok2nL3LDhEpTKBnc4wj8VgUxjg/s400/Leo_Pearl070112.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760625131762099442" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">FANCY FOURSOME</span></i></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color:#0f1f99;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/our-birds/frame4101.html">Robbie & Stanley</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> and <a href="http://mickaboo.org/our-birds/frame4526.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color:#0f1f99;">Lulu & Ed</span></a> are mated pairs of West of England Tumblers. They are gentle and fancily feathered little birds that get along well together in their small foster aviary at Andy’s (100%) Rescue Pet Shop but who need a forever home. They would do great in an outside aviary or sharing a sunroom indoors.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Fulzt2z-iQoH5RNWXE0TKFGTrvc8Y8Rcwvf43K_QsP6XD1hzuMqXjOJ7onQtq22WAMaE9hTk2SPTRpr61wFYRlGwK_YHPf14EaExNb2tFOa4FEtn0iB9vkWHbfI8SRlLsl41vA/s320/IMG_5317Robbie_Stanley.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760623157230069986" /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRQDM9eG4q54ruZGYuRP9DzmhiR14HJdy9FF1SIN-EZXcd6hGY6oS9VbJt6LgAToRWR_Eeceywsvcrz_OpS7uWQQ9KheOXzA5Y9SS1pxZ8ao9ODV4BfQXKCAhNQrfJ0drHgb_sw/s320/Ed_Lulu040812.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760623146819536754" /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">GORGEOUS FLOCK</span></i></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">MickaCoo has several gorgeous flocks of rescued pigeons in need of a life-saving aviary home. One flock of six king pigeons is in particularly urg</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">ent need of adoption as their foster aviary is closing down. It isn’t hard</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">(nor expensive) to create a beautiful, safe and very charming aviary for these lovely birds. No he</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">at or electricity is required and it is well within the abilities of the average Do It Yourselfer. And MickaCoo will help! We will help you to design and sometimes even build it. (Volunteers often join in to help on building day.) Adopters love their aviaries and rave about how much pleasure they get for so </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">little effort. If you or some</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">body you know would</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">enjoy having a life-saving and gorgeous backyard aviary, please contact Elizabeth at </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; color:#0f1f99;">AdoptKings@gmail.com</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "> for mor</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">e information.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:7;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2UM3IsepQG5ma4G0qbXv5KcWEB12cZ1RFAjKRE7DT_oeYwANITxiiDpf1RHt8OSyHMphBhbf1U9r2N-U2mWA14HTGrSYC8O91fQ7sbIADHMeJCWsM7DT7XdOv7xohdqCsSsZOw/s320/2010_05160085.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760623176599797586" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:7;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibXdiVFvTaULMVgVcFF-WwDiDpH9ikkxVN6O9p1Xo6uskv7n7WydtycXFrprOxrg29oipLzn_gPmVGUljpSkvcVARDNLgv2WlILS2eFpOyd2rcFYAfW1yJZtlrotrh__gn-suP7A/s320/2010_05160077.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760623169435092530" /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">LINKS:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html">MickaCoo’s Available Pigeons & Doves</a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/why-have-pigeon-for-pet.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">Why Have a Pigeon as a Pet?</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/01/how-to-create-aviary-for-rescued-king.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">How to Create an Aviary for Rescued Pigeons (or doves)</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html">MickaCoo Online Adoption Application</a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/05/gentle-kings-need-help-to-escape-cruel.html">King Pigeons: Gentle Birds Need Help to Escape Cruel Fate</a></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="mailto:AdoptKings@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#c0c0c0;">Contact Elizabeth for more information</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-32897108239520035962012-06-14T10:15:00.006-07:002012-07-10T12:23:42.719-07:00Olivia<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Olivia was first spotted as a young king pigeon hanging out with a flock of ferals in Oakland. She was flying and uncatchable (by humans) but, as a domestic meat bird bred for the dinner plate rather than survival, at profound risk from predators.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">She did OK for awhile but came down with a bad respiratory infection and was grounded. Her luck continued to hold because kind people found her and took her in before the illness or nature could finish her off.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">She had a long recuperation and was on MickaCoo's waiting list of birds needing to come in. Eventually she laid an egg and, since we always have lots of bachelors, we knew we could add her to a foster aviary and that she would get a warm welcome.</span></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBhsbR0UQ__9b79SgjsFuE9aM1FJdvldbwoIIOcJgRIRLfn_3-FOO8RERWTVHMFW_uWuMSmSnRq-oZD3aCkUgASoOF2fJdGPn2t9HiSr7swQkakmFAsEkNn42JxU-OC3sCYE_GwQ/s1600/IMG_6944.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBhsbR0UQ__9b79SgjsFuE9aM1FJdvldbwoIIOcJgRIRLfn_3-FOO8RERWTVHMFW_uWuMSmSnRq-oZD3aCkUgASoOF2fJdGPn2t9HiSr7swQkakmFAsEkNn42JxU-OC3sCYE_GwQ/s400/IMG_6944.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5755056341914884386" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNn3eTUnouLiU3kG_Ax_-dkDelurXppe-hKcM47e3en0app6_IpWX6vT872SaXJdQOpeWS9luoWkL2jiiX1meuXYG2aU09j-joPDMeObdthrdrhC2Ii55cFH34Bca2g3kpU1SDDA/s1600/IMG_6967.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNn3eTUnouLiU3kG_Ax_-dkDelurXppe-hKcM47e3en0app6_IpWX6vT872SaXJdQOpeWS9luoWkL2jiiX1meuXYG2aU09j-joPDMeObdthrdrhC2Ii55cFH34Bca2g3kpU1SDDA/s400/IMG_6967.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5755056332670155234" /></a> <div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">And she did. Too warm for her liking. I was surprised to find that Olivia, despite having been living with other rescued pigeons for months, was actually very people-oriented. She was much more interested in me than in any of the many bachelors that were vying for affection.</span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9w_GhIe5PhP0D3D4nktBbjrbgFpJjm0Gpc67ZVFEzxOCveHYz0mBgrNxJ-Ro1J16TnZg5aGJtwDd6xGPimw_-GR2irWCsnDKWTmGX2ZDPvZ5dF-DO07y0FlFGcVRWRNkikNuvQ/s1600/Olivia0061412.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9w_GhIe5PhP0D3D4nktBbjrbgFpJjm0Gpc67ZVFEzxOCveHYz0mBgrNxJ-Ro1J16TnZg5aGJtwDd6xGPimw_-GR2irWCsnDKWTmGX2ZDPvZ5dF-DO07y0FlFGcVRWRNkikNuvQ/s400/Olivia0061412.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5755056328362379490" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Olivia was panicky when I left her outside in the aviary and much happier "helping" me inside. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span> <div><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFYKxh-5R588SQni5jLleMIPOBOiYi5r6LybTk3SgvyXjOb5QUB5-W3m2UOapUKUb9Wk9c-CnYP7ZNL09U-7f6s6p_WJtkec_KwaBaOQkrbVBvEcvqaLSXoD7iYvHNNogSEDrug/s400/Olivia_061512a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5755056348235192738" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">She got along fine with indoor, special needs hen Pearl but Pearl's mate Leo would chase her away when they were out at the same time.</span></div><br /><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1k-mXxeUx5YgGz8yDmvsnLr-6LVH_LDWmBwedw-XuKlWs8mdtUmBV7gIyUeTerjAyxaiDFBp7EKm-cHF2O9vqUkqKXN1z6SyI9JOTxXmd89_PWvlHYZkNurPOxPkMzu7b_pw8aw/s400/IMG_7079.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763603137105299650" /> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Here Olivia studies the 4' tall Pet Food Express "My Mutt" poster of my first adopted pigeon <a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2007/11/rocky.html">Rocky</a>. (All the indoor pigeons spend an inordinate amount of time gazing at this giant pigeon picture.)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8p23jtsJ19VvknFGcNjMzkP8ei8qmOu3KLc7nEFufgkEnqT2IPmR0N8iscjkVZjHDJpl6YFlmhtD-cJmQJKP5_bNm-VLOLPqJHFlL8EB4geiUlgLs3GaV7OpRchP_vYmgX5B8g/s400/IMG_7135.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763603130425240738" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Olivia wasn't thrilled to have pants put on but she definitely enjoyed the attention and affection she got from going out and about as a PR Pigeon.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UKJHymd6yYv16znvJGUF-TYFFvm_INtdC9u-tJD4jbe8-SVfFRwlCLNIPgHAd3gpIZIMwJyRi-YXU1Dc3iqYSc0FxowYvEdUs-zmlTckKiV8Qiw4BX-Y5DkGu30Dy3NiwnWGyg/s400/IMG_7458.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763603157078331346" /> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNB1rfh3WLZswl1MULrwJPJGLFhbht72PBXyoppcXY5OAf3UDrdjViFvFFSgdaa4zg4Hb8SBcs1LyC1MbG5fPz83HNWMrqum_G0BvG56hfSEneOsf5b_ErCaZqPKzLo6nwNDkE8w/s400/IMG_7465.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763595207295104706" /><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfz2POhEVArFRGJbtlHILPnEg7-Ugtx934k_FAaPGazJLTydUAUUc5qHrA87j5PkToJY11U3rf8nIDbBInI2Qhp-6wibbteDXFKitMCGtwrHw72vm9UqYndWRLVStHMitF-bYUw/s400/DSCF5651.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763603146002502194" /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">But the truth is that I'm not that great a pigeon husband. And, after a week of doing her best to turn me into one, smart Olivia realized that she could do better. On one of her aviary visits, she started to warm up to <a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2008/09/walter.html">widower Walter's</a> courting. And then, just like that, she married him.</span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5j39TJYvz6gwynwRTh9cNzBrMMfhc8RIQsaixthrXLVHyNPorChNG0RyMiH_tKgEous6CZqpdAiBlqDuahseYaAggmMxy64Omg1mQNYnaBLXA4Csq20CC1pB758uzfaY6DCCmA/s1600/IMG_7683.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5j39TJYvz6gwynwRTh9cNzBrMMfhc8RIQsaixthrXLVHyNPorChNG0RyMiH_tKgEous6CZqpdAiBlqDuahseYaAggmMxy64Omg1mQNYnaBLXA4Csq20CC1pB758uzfaY6DCCmA/s400/IMG_7683.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763595199223007490" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Olivia, once so solicitous of me, has now given her heart to Walter and she is a very faithful mate.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">They've made a nest together and laid eggs, of which you can see Olivia is rather possessive.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3c2N8Hc3gPqwNX2ybsSwZbt9peNK9AyLkjXT6-p0AHNtHFiqZZOrTwTmI2m1HRLqyADYVXAuTMkSTQhhRZiTtPd92SDaSztwLcjXI3eCevGiGph8Ab35_JZryPk-g2GekQR1sQ/s1600/IMG_7804.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3c2N8Hc3gPqwNX2ybsSwZbt9peNK9AyLkjXT6-p0AHNtHFiqZZOrTwTmI2m1HRLqyADYVXAuTMkSTQhhRZiTtPd92SDaSztwLcjXI3eCevGiGph8Ab35_JZryPk-g2GekQR1sQ/s400/IMG_7804.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763595181711299698" /></a> <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1inOH-YAhoBOPmahdDRi3HUnhgYhRJAEoa-z3iPl6RywiFZR8snwUPkoI4B5J-9GzeNcTdwxLxVrhpAztdJZeI2bqSOG8w8rU1T7rOJcV71RhfAIJkNN625Fi2X1kVNRDIew81Q/s400/IMG_7807.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763595188163090082" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Never the less, I did have to replace her beautiful real eggs with fakes (pigeon birth control) because sadly there aren't even enough homes for the pigeons that are already here, let alone for us to allow more to hatch. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwy5qpeommZTrd_Z8GTG3BdKAMIBsfbYw-sroxu1GWCRkqAM4HPFhkIir77wX0F5TYn-DRvviQJIDXVu29XdeGl2nMEEdt5Wi_vcQtTN2inU4fCE8edHQDiOEj5q_fo1cqX0gdbg/s1600/IMG_7794.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwy5qpeommZTrd_Z8GTG3BdKAMIBsfbYw-sroxu1GWCRkqAM4HPFhkIir77wX0F5TYn-DRvviQJIDXVu29XdeGl2nMEEdt5Wi_vcQtTN2inU4fCE8edHQDiOEj5q_fo1cqX0gdbg/s400/IMG_7794.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763595173200467138" /></a><br /></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Because Olivia paired up with my widowed pet pigeon Walter, she has been adopted by me. But MickaCoo has many, many more lovely and very wonderful birds in need of a great home. Please take a look at our <a href="http://www.mickaboo.org/our-birds/species-19.html">Available Birds</a> and please, help us to save these innocents from being killed in shelters for lack of adopters.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i><a href="http://mickaboo.org/apply-mickacoo.html">ADOPT</a></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i><a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2009/09/donate.html">DONATE</a></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><i>Thank you</i></span></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-2492542404208356722012-06-12T21:24:00.013-07:002012-06-12T21:46:24.275-07:00Celebrate and Donate!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 52, 11); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.2308em; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(101, 144, 175); font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.125em; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Wednesday June 13th is Pigeon Appreciation Day!</strong></h3></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAxtUebXdIcw8rcLz2a702IChmSOmJqmwP51PzsleFKhuzBzvwLvSaoN6yIK0fc9WbkmJhAGZSXQYauNawLri7xHd63PYxnze0npmYGRKqUh76p3zb7wZ-Cme36LnUz6JZxXK3Q/s1600/Gypsy_MilkshakeMike032912.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAxtUebXdIcw8rcLz2a702IChmSOmJqmwP51PzsleFKhuzBzvwLvSaoN6yIK0fc9WbkmJhAGZSXQYauNawLri7xHd63PYxnze0npmYGRKqUh76p3zb7wZ-Cme36LnUz6JZxXK3Q/s400/Gypsy_MilkshakeMike032912.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5753373145106743714" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.125em; color:initial;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;">Rescued homer Gypsy and king Milkshake Mike found love in MickaCoo foster care.</span></span></h3></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;"><em color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; "><strong color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; ">You</strong></em> are already making a life-saving difference for birds that, without your support, would be routinely killed in shelters. Your support means birds like little <a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/11/gypsy.html">Gypsy</a> & <a href="http://www.rescuereport.org/2011/10/mike.html">Milkshake Mike</a> can be cared for, find love and be adopted into wonderful homes.</span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;">MickaCoo relies on your donations to continue this effort and we are in urgent need of your support. We can save, on average, one bird for every $250 donated. (Some birds cost much less to help, some much more.)</span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;">Today, your donation can earn an additional 30% bonus through GlobalGiving and help ensure that MickaCoo can help the next little Gypsy (or big Milkshake Mike) that needs us. <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mickacoo-pigeon-and-dove-rescue/">(Donate now.)</a></span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 52, 11); line-height: 22px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- vertical-align: baseline; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- vertical-align: baseline; color:initial;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHzaS7LcwjU5gf9OODMITLyVNs11PJJa2eq-qKqSlteB_69VszS7SK6OGY29dB1j1tE2xQ0zYLkS7VJDff1WXB1Nii_uNtD3VeUCwuQkyWRLQBaA2s0opayzjS0ldZ3j8EWCRuA/s400/GGBonusMatch061312.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5753373149827271890" /></strong></span></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; color:#ffcc99;"><i>As of 9:24 PM PST 6/12/12</i></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#43340b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><strong color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;">Today, Wednesday June 13th, is <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; ">Bonus Match Day at GlobalGiving and coincidentally Pigeon Appreciation Day!</strong></span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;">Please celebrate these smart, loyal birds with a donation to MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue. <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mickacoo-pigeon-and-dove-rescue/">Online donations made to MickaCoo at GlobalGiving.org <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; "><strong color="initial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; ">on 6/13 will earn a 30% matching bonus up to $1,000 per donor</strong></em></a> until matching funds run out! (There is $75,000 available and funds usually run out by midday.) </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;"><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; outline-style: initial; ">Your generous support on behalf of these overlooked, under-served birds is what makes the impossible happen for them.</em> If you are able, please make an <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mickacoo-pigeon-and-dove-rescue/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; ">online donation to MickaCoo</a> today <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; ">Wednesday, 6/13.</strong></em> (The campaign starts at midnight EST so 9 PM on Tuesday 6/13 for those of us on the West Coast.) And please- share this request with your friends and family. Your compassion is contagious. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3846em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; line-height: 1.3846em; color:initial;"><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- vertical-align: baseline; color:initial;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- vertical-align: baseline; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc99;">Thank you. Truly. Your support is incredibly appreciated.</span></strong></em></p><a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/photo/PRA25784/pij-love-by-photographer-ingrid-taylar-photo-from-progr/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(219, 134, 0); text-decoration: underline; "><img src="http://cloud.globalgiving.org/pfil/9380/pijlovebyIngridTaylar_Grid7.jpg" alt="Pij Love, by Photographer Ingrid Taylar" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></a></span></div><div><a href="http://ingridtaylar.com/"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;">Pij Love courtesy of Photographer Ingrid Taylar</span></b></i></a></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15146750.post-91229504479553673302012-06-11T16:21:00.006-07:002012-06-11T18:39:49.337-07:00MickaCoo at the Maddie's Fund Adoptathon!<table style="width:194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/100985560542384575252/MickaCooAtMaddieSFundAdoptathon?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3Xhm-BrP4SA/T9ZocIT2UoE/AAAAAAAAquw/40WDaoETOMM/s160-c/MickaCooAtMaddieSFundAdoptathon.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/100985560542384575252/MickaCooAtMaddieSFundAdoptathon?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">MickaCoo at Maddie's Fund Adoptathon</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10835534026361339599noreply@blogger.com0