Last Saturday, we had a booth at the Great Lakes Pet Expo. Here is the recent post announcing our appearance.
As usual, we had a great time! The expo was very busy, so we had a lot of opportunity to talk to people and help them improve the nutrition of their parrots and answer behaviorial questions.
We took Joey (umbrella cockatoo), Queenie (rose-breasted cockatoo), Buckie (Mexican red-headed amazon), Tuesday (pionus) and one of our volunteers brought two of her birds: Burt (goffin's cockatoo) and Sam (African grey). The birds were perfect. We only bring birds that enjoy this kind of socialization and make sure that everyone has plenty of time away from the public as well.
We did a posterboard on Guinevere the cockatiel. We also sold lots of food and toys (for parrots), along with four boxes of candy bars (for people)! All of the proceeds go directly to helping the birds at the Center.
One of our goals is to let people know that there are places out there from which parrots can be adopted, and that adoption is a wonderful choice should they decide to add a bird to their home. With any luck, a few parrots currently at the Center will find loving homes due to networking we did at this event.
If we missed you this year, we hope to see you next year!
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Dear Lori,
I was not able to attend your outing, but I wanted to take a minute to leave you this blog. You and your group are amazing in what you do for these birds. I check your web site 2-3 times a week to read your blog and to see what new sweet ones are now there for adoption. I have adopted one of your birds and she is now one of the joys in our family. I want to take a minute to say this to all who might read this blog. Your toys are fantastic, my birds(all 4 of them) love to enjoy them. I like the fact that the profits from these toys goes right back into your organization helping those sweet loving birds. If people would educate themselves on birds long before they ever purchase one, there might be less throw away birds as they seem to see them as. Keep up the great work. I appreciate all you do and so my birds.
terry
Terry,
Thank you for the nice comment. We're trying to focus on education so that people can make an informed decision about whether to bring a bird into their home and, if they so choose, which one will work best with their lifestyle.
And also on educating people who already have birds so that the birds can live a happier life with the family they already know.
We try to make parrot-pleasing toys; we have a lot of toy testers in our sanctuary and adoptable birds :)
Also, thanks for letting us know the bird you adopted from us is doing well. We always love to hear the success stories!
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