A bunch of kind people have PMed me and I keep retyping the same thing over and over, so I’m just going to post this here.
I have spent dozens and dozens of hours contacting literally every single rescue within 300 miles of my house.
every single one has told me that
1) they are full to capacity
2) they don’t accept surrenders from out of state
or 3) they said right away they would take them, but when I investigated more into the organization, it was not a good place. More of a bird hoarder situation than a true rescue. Or even a couple that were actually flippers.
Unless someone has a friend at a rescue that could convince them to make an exception and take an out of state surrender, then I’m out of options as far as rescues go. I am on the surrenders waitlist at several places, but they all warned me that with the economy and housing prices the way they are right now that everyone is broke with precarious housing situations, so surrenders are at an all time high and adoptions at an all time low. I was told over and over that pretty much all rescues- dog, cat, bird- are bursting at the seams with animals so the surrender waitlists are looooooooong.
I have reached out to my vet and all of the other avian vets in my area. I haven’t gotten any bites from that route yet though.
If we get to the point that it’s a true emergency situation I will have to reconsider, but if at all possible I would like to avoid a foster situation. Like most birds, my girls are wary of unfamiliar people and places. And I would like to avoid stressing them out even more if I possibly can by not bouncing them around to multiple locations.
I have dustball birds though. I'll reach out to a few peopleI know to see ifI can find a backup plan in case the rescue can't take them.
