Good morning, check out the link below about Gulliver the stranded blue and gold. Any suggestions on helping this bird would be appreciated.

gary

Shipwrecked Animals in Peril . . . Please Help! - Cruisers & Sailing Forums

I can't stand this! I hope something can be done for Gulliver!

How upsetting. I had to read every one of the posts right down to Gary's.
Oh how I wish there was something we could do to help this beautiful bird.

Well, I'm gald this has a happy ending! How sad that the owners could care less about them!

Think I'd have stayed on the island with my pets!

Absolutely!

I'm sorry to have to squelch this optimistic post, Ginich, but it simply isn't true. Would that it were.

As the person who has been working on the rescue of the two marooned animals, and Snickers new owner, I can only say that if what you read is true, I'm not aware of it. Nor is Robby Coleman (who is on Fanning Island, and is working to save Gulliver from that end).

It is Snickers, the now-nine-or-ten-month-old cocker spaniel puppy, who is being flown to LA by Hawaiian Airlines. If we can get Gulliver cleared to enter the country, then he will, at some point, fly into LA, but to fly him there without prior clearance is a death sentence.

The sad fact is that while Gulliver is safe, if only momentarily, where he is now, and he would be safe here in the US with me, or any other of probably hundreds of bird-lovers who would be delighted to take him in, the hostile territory between the two "safety zones" is where the danger lies. Until we are assured that he can come in safely, it's foolish to risk it.

To get prior clearance, Gulliver must first test negative twice over a thirty day period for avian influenza and Newcastle disease, but even that doesn't grant him a pass home. The fact is, he was the product, evidently, of an illicit backyard breeder in Modesto, California, has no leg band, there are no existing records that prove he was hatched in the US, no veterinary record - the list of obstacles is lengthy.

We are trying to locate a veterinarian, hopefully in Hawaii, who will fly down to Kiribati and perform the required tests, but that requires money. At Gulliver’s Island: Dedicated to saving one special bird. there is a link if you wish to donate to the effort, and if it should turn out that more money is raised than is actually required, the excess will be donated to the people of desperately poor Kiribati, to be distributed by the "Unimane" Council of Elders on Fanning Island.

Without the determined stalling by Benaia, the local policeman on Fanning, because he did not want to carry out the edict that came down from Christmas Island to destroy the animals, they would be long dead by now. Don't think for a moment that that means they would have been "euthanised." There is no such thing as a veterinarian in the entire Republic of Kiribati - they don't even have enough medical care for the people.

No, the animals would have been executed, and Benaia would have had to do it with his bare hands!

Please, if you are in a position to help save Gulliver, donate something to the fund at gulliversisland, because it is still uncertain that he can escape that very fate.

TaoJones

First, thank you for coming here to Parrot Chatter. We are pleased to see you post here.
There are many sites like ours and I believe together we can raise some of the funds needed. Each and every one of us should contribute to save this beautiful baby.

That was so terribly irresponsible of that couple to take their pets with them. I will cross post this, if I may.