Another Hoarding Situation

We received a call at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night from Humane Society of Vilas County.  A woman with a hoarding problem passed away in her home and was finally found on Wednesday.  She had 14 large birds and five dogs.  This house has already been condemned and the animals all were removed Wednesday night. None of them had any food or water in their cages - we were told they thought the woman had been dead for possibly a week.  She had no running water and there was no food or water in any of the cages.  She also had no toilet facilities in the home.

Today, we took in 11 of  the 14 birds (they kept three to use for education up there).  There were 6 amazons, 3 macaws and 2 congo african greys.  They are in very poor condition and we will start vetting them on Monday. 

They also brought me a senior female Pomeranian who has poor eyesight.  I will get her vetted and foster her for Wisconsin Chihuahua Rescue.

We are now, of course, at capacity and could really use some help with vet bills.  We will have to do more testing on these birds than we would normally do - this is going to be expensive.  If anyone can help, we'd really appreciate it.

Thanks to Melissa from HSVC for transporting the birds and the Pom down to us.  That really helped expedite getting these birds down here.

We have now reached 61 birds surrendered this year already.  That's more than one per day.  Not getting off to a very good start.