We have 17 Cockateils coming in,all breeders. There is a women who is having some problems with health and money,she has moved into her daughters and the birds are at her apartment where the heat and water has been turned off,The birds are in a bedroom with a space heater. ASPCA is ready to take them all due to neglect,so now they will be transported here. can you believe this women actually asked if when this is over if she can have a couple back to breed.

I wish I could say what people do doesn't surprise me anymore, but I can't. Unbelievable!

Well actually I can believe that she said that. ~ it just hasn't all sunk in yet.
Breeding animals is often done without any thought beyond profit. If she'd asked for a few back, as pets, I'd have been more compassionate - after all they were hers & times can be tough*, & you'd think she'd be very sad. (*tougher than most can relate to - people just can't cope mentally, when money & health issues rear up)

PS: how are you going to cope - that's a lot of Tiels! I guess you'll be separating the males from the females?!
Thanks for being there.

I get so tired of hearing stories like this one...what is wrong with people???

Awww thoughs poor little birds. I wish that I lived closer. I'd take one home and see if Tobi wants a birdy friend. It's that way around here with cats and dogs. People let them breed then before you know it, we are over runned with cats and dogs...Some dogs run wild here too, and most times than none they have to be caught and put down...Makes me mad...

How many cages did this woman have for the poor birds? So many times with a home breeder people tend to have too many birds in too few cages.

These guys will be arriving Saturday, what I am told they are in 4 cages.but no cages are coming with them,so I have been busy getting cages ready and making lots of new toys. This women was a breeder/hoarder.

Do they come with any documentation? - who's who?: father daughter - how old?

Will you be able to make sure inbreeding doesn't happen when they go [maybe in pairs] to their new homes?

Hoarding is a terrible thing & compounding it with breeding intensionally ...


Aside: Nadine's right about the wild dog problems - they are breeding with the coyote in Southern Ontario & have created a new type of problem. Coyotes that run in packs. My parents [live in a rural area] lost their Australian Heeler to a neighbour who shot him thinking he was a Coyote/dog - Blue was out hunting & I guess he was too young yet to know he shouldn't go next door. All our dogs have known their home perimeters, so this was the 1st time we had this problem.

They will come with full historys,names ages etc.. who is bonded.They have all been to the vet and tested for disease.They will still be going into quarenteen. they will be seperated and see how they do as singles for a while. you can never gaurentee someone isn't going to breed,just try your hardest to make sure that dosen't happen.