Re: Just for your information

["Janet Jeanpierre" <jajeanpierre@1M3Vs9v_GOqMwXiKiOWtLvVTA2jZDyHKa-Al8VAtYTqNNLcYPS_Wt8MAOV1NymB92HuKC34fNKPKDiSGDD24SQ.yahoo.invalid>]

I completely agree!  No one on the bird lists ever gets a rehome,
they are always rescues.

I was not thrilled with the video either.  The US market is not
supplied by wild caughts.  As Chris pointed out, plucked birds are,
unfortunately, pretty normal in the pet bird population.

Janet

--- In Freeflight@yahoogroups.com, Chris Biro <chrisbiro@...> wrote:
>

> But I too do have a problem with linking
> this movie to a "bird rescue" since so much of the video is about
> things other than the kind of bird "rescuing" that such an
> organization normally performs. But then again, maybe I am just a
bit
> touchy when it comes to any one that makes a big deal
out "rescuing"
> parrots. Most organizations or individuals do not in
fact "rescue"
> many birds. Most take in birds that others no longer want. That
is
> more akin to "rehoming" rather than "rescuing". But that is a pet
> peeve of my own, as some one who has himself "rehomed" a lot of
birds
> at this point.