Saturday at CARE

Hi Everyone!  Another great adoption day at CARE today.  You never know what the day before a holiday will bring, and this one was busy.  We had about 10 grooming appts. as well as adoption appts.  We had a male lutino cockatiel go home today; Peeps, one of the hoarding amazons went home; Cooper, a bronze-winged pionus with fatty liver disease (under control) went home; and one of our really sweet female doves went home.  There were no surrenders today.  Happy Easter everyone - it was a good day.

Monday

Knew it was going  to be a busy day cuz we weren't open on Saturday.  And it was.  Poco, the Blue-Crowned Conure who has been with us for quite awhile, went home today.  So did Skittles, a dilute Fischer's lovebird.  We had just the one surrender yesterday, a ringneck dove, at the Green Bay Pet Expo, and none today.  Several boarders went home and a new boarder came in.  The boarder coming in today is for behavioral adjustment - she is starting to pluck and we want to redirect her energies into learning how to play with toys.  Hopefully it will work.  Tomorrow looks to be just as busy ....

Green Bay Pet Expo

We just came back from spending three days in Green Bay doing the WBAY Green Bay Pet Expo.  We have a lot of customers from the Green Bay area and it's nice to be able to take our toys and info to them.  We had a great time, made some new friends, sold lots of toys and brought back a surrendered dove.  All in all it was a great weekend.

Snortin' Norton

Norton, a Blue-Fronted Amazon, came to us a few months ago and was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, which is a fast-growing cancer.  He was spoiled rotten while he was here, learned to play with toys, loved his fruit bread with his meds in it, and enjoyed shouting "hi" at us whenever he saw us.  Unfortunately, his cancer caught up with him and we had to make the sad decision to send him over the Rainbow Bridge.  We will miss you, Norton. We really enjoyed the time we were able to spend with you.  Fly free, Norton, fly free.

WBAY Green Bay Pet Expo

Just a reminder that we will be closed this coming Saturday, March 23rd.  We have two booths up at the Green Bay Pet Expo this weekend.  This is a very good event for us and we have lots of customers from up in the Fox Cities/Green Bay area.  We will reopen again as usual on Monday the 25th.

Saturday's Results

Another busy day here - Saturdays have been crazy lately (which is a good thing) :)  Larry and Pete, the fiery-shouldered conure and green cheek conure who came in together, were adopted and went home today to a great lady who had her previous gcc for 24 years!  Izzy, the green cheek conure, went home with a previous adopter.  One of our female cockatiels also got to go home.  Yay!!!  Emma, the Congo African Grey who came in as one of the Vilas County birds, was adopted earlier in the week and they picked her up also.  Because she is so insecure and frightened, they purchased her cage, so she would have something comfortable and familiar with her.  Super nice people who are willing to take the time to give Emma a chance to heal and learn to love.  There were no surrenders :)  All except one of the Vilas County birds are now available for adoption - we will be getting descriptions and pix up on Petfinder this week.

Tuesday's Happenings

Emma, one of the Congo African Greys from the Vilas County birds, was adopted today.  She will be going home by the end of the week.  This was an especially wonderful adoption because Emma is a very frightened little Grey.  We thought it may take months to find the right home for her, but her new mom is a nurturer and will take her time getting to know her.  This adoption totally made our day.  On the darker side of today, we had a cockatiel surrendered.  This poor little girl had her wings totally mutilated by someone's stupidity.  They cut off most of her wings, and she will not grow them back.  She's also missing a couple of toes.  She's afraid of everything.  We put her in our girl cage.  The other girls we have are sweet and were already taking care of her.  She is going to need special care.  Pictures to come but we didn't want to stress her out anymore today - she's been thru enough.