pearl pearl rescue so sherry nice to meet you jake nice to meet you i talked to jake briefly on the phone and they brought three little beautiful little birds with big birds with us sherry would you tell us where you have i  piece disbanded our director couldn't let it go i mean we have an abundance of birds needing help and re homing so she took it and briefly she's she's very into she was doing it on her own for quite some time up until about a year ago pearl has really taken off with volunteers and becoming a father one three c nonprofit organization so so what happens is you don't have an actual facility but you take in these homes these parents and provide temporary homes foster homes for them correct and how many foster homes you have currently while we have three intake homes we take them in for thirty days to get their personalities and work with them and some of them come in that are aggressive and we have to work with them in order to get them into foster homes and some of that is because of fear that their aggressive or because of lack of training lack of training some of these birds have come in being in their cages for ten years  the one we're going on tomorrow is two parents that were left outside in west virginia outside so in the cold yeah it's with a heated perch and that's it no cover yeah you know it holds true for dogs cats a lot of the animals people just have no common sense or no compassion and for whatever reason they get an animal and they don't know how to take care to want to bother taking care of it and these guys are especially sensitive to temperature  has can be what what is some of the reasons that people end up they get them because they're beautiful and they then end up giving them up for adoption or neglecting them what brings these parents to you age these guys can last seventy five eighty years so that's way past my life time my kids luckily are involved with the rescue so they will inherit my birds so that's a big concern of getting a pair and where you are in your stage of life and what to do with them and your will basically basically yes and so a lot of people right specific instructions when i pass away this is what i want to happen to my bird they have predicted months with people with organizations like pearl p reason to why some of the birds are we home through us is just cost you know blood work and a basic vet visit for some of the larger parrots can run up to two hundred to five hundred dollars and it's even tough to find a veterinarian office that will take care of a pet that used to be can help them help the burden find we need to take every part that we can they call they tell us their situation if it can be on hold for a little bit then they're put on a waiting  list if it's an emergency like the two parents that are outside we're going to go get them sight unseen no questions asked and so sometimes neighbors loop or report people that are abusing their animals or see them being neglected it happens sometimes sometimes but basically there's nothing we can do right now both are considered property so they have no right is there a particular type of parrot that you see more often in pearls than others we see a pretty good variety but you know the parrots that we get in a lot are the cockatoos in the macaws because of people are attracted to them because of their size and how pretty they are and they can talk but they're also carry a lot more challenges and some of the smaller birds from the noise level the level of destruction they can do in your home and they can be loud so yeah very loud and i had a little argentine monk parrot which is about the size of a large route robin and that little thing could screech and make noise and for the whole house you think were how can you do that that you that little thing can marry the much noise right now i have four and cockatoos which are the largest they stand about this big they are almost as loud as a seven forty seven and i for them i have two of these guys and i have forgotten cockatoos which are smaller little ones yeah flowers some germinated seeds the baby plants and everything and so those are those are commercially prepared foods and so they're easy easily obtainable is it ok for them to come down and grab a snack off your plate occasionally good luck try to keep some of them away from from getting your snack well my little bird that i had for all those years would would fly right to the table and eat off your plate and it was or my african grey eyes name is harley he was sitting with me at the dinner table and i was eating spaghetti and meatballs and he i had his put his bowl next to me and he looked at his bowl he looked at my plate looked at me looks back at my plate and goes i eat their food and dogs could care less you know and she would actually sit there and sleep with the dogs cuddled up with the dogs and the dogs they were never exposed like they had them before we had lido you know and they never bothered lead i have two definitely afraid of the birds if they come out he marlin will pet the cat that i have the cat sit on my lap he'll come over and he'll start putting the cat the one dog stays away and i just got a puppy and she's fearless really yeah we're waiting for her to get net because the this one here doesn't like dogs at all and yeah i'm waiting for her to get that you know you do have to be concerned about the hurting the bird and you know if you have to be careful with stuff like that but these big powerful in fact i'm sure no doubt in my mind if that be could take a finger off oh yeah yeah definitely some of the larger to disperse seeds and pollinate and she won't bark in trees so in the wild but in captivity that's that's not the minute because they're not domesticated animals so they we change out their cage paper wipe off their crates sweep the floor they throw stuff out of the cage and if you if you don't clean it they clean it themselves and then it becomes a bigger mess so there is a little bit of work but you know i know a few people that had birds and what they did is they just lock them in a cage and want to run their daily daily business and kind of ignore the birds but these are actually very social beings extremely birds are flocking animals so in the wild very rarely see a parrot alone so in  homes we become their flock and it's very important for them mentally emotionally to be able to have that connection and those reform we started to tape the show you had your paired up against your neck  down on the couch and he's out he will climb underneath the blanket cuddle him yeah but tubes are about the only ones there cuddle cuddle bugs we call them mine was like that too they she always would go right on your neck and just want to sometimes need to be trimmed if they're good chewers on their toys and in wood that usually takes care of itself and that's what they do they keep chewing and that keeps their big constantly growing doesn't stop once it reaches a certain point fact are affects the respiratory system birds being prey animals so in the wild they're the risk in the bottom of the food chain even these bigger guys so they hide signs of illness very well because it's in the wild bird that looks a little slower sicker than the rest of the pie going to get you know preyed on first so they hide signs of illness very well so as a bird owner you have to be very aware of their normal behaviors and even what their droppings look like  contacted you how do you determine whether i'm a good fit for the pair well we have classes first of all we want to educate you to let you know this is what you're getting into a lifelong commitment basically we don't want you to take it home and then turn around and bring it back to us so we have classes for the big guys like these grow these two and then most here you have to take an advanced and basic last nutrition classes suggested and we also do a fostering class that if you're going to foster for us that you have to go through you have to complete all four to foster for us we also do a home visit we talk to you constantly and once you adopt from us we're not gone we're there you can call any time and say my parts doing this what can i do we'll give you redirection tips we'll try to work with you will even come up and help you if we have to because  screenings we go up and look through the house make sure you're not off order because we've had a situation or two like that that had had parakeets as hoarder as there were just kids everywhere go flying  but and we also say the bird picks you that is so true it is so if like most pick me he's my bird he doesn't go to my husband he when slaps my daughters as they walk past the cage he's mine marlin is both mine and my husband's and to peace kind of mine but my husband has them a walk in the tos that i can't go anywhere near the cage but he can take out and flip around and do with so it sees you as a threat basically i think he doesn't want to share the attention from your husband that's boss so yeah and i can relate to that when we got lido and i didn't bring lido to the house but lido hated everybody in the house would dive bomb my dad my mom my sister brother flew right to me live on my shoulder and that was it you know and you sit there and like ok why did it pick you of all these people i mean my brother six eight you think i'd go to the toilet but but he was leader was my bird just from the get go exactly and i was like that i could do anything now over time she stopped that but when i was around the house she would revert back to a little bit you know i don't want you i don't want the world when i was off to school suffer because of how big they can be we work with you we make sure that you come over and you work with the bird for numerous weeks before you take that bird home so we're not  are these do you have to clip the wings of a bird yes well you don't it's a preference basically it's for their safety i clipped most of mine marland will fly and go right into the wall younger so he cannot extend it and get that lift so but it's all in preference we have a lot of people that have little conyers and green cheeks that let them fly my daughter has to we call them her guard birds  they won't let anybody in her room if they're out and she's there they will tack so they get their wings clipped they're not flying up and they do draw blood it's amazing oh yeah they deal with do that yes they do  something something to pick at something then something new so you need to give them toys just like you give a dog or cat toys right a lot so would lots of wood for them to chew through cardboard forging toys we take cardboard boxes and stuff them with newspaper and knots and just different things in their toys that they can dig out and they threw the cardboard and forge for their food because they're not getting that foraging that they would get out and  almost like they're born with them i mean i see that my dogs i had you know several pairs that were from the same litter box and i rescued and they were pretty much the same but different then but yet they were born at the same time raise the same way abuse the same way you know till i got home and so forth but yet their personalities were so you so you have to figure they were born that way yeah i guess the way we were is was right as well everybody has their own personality so cats are natural predators especially to birds so when somebody calls up wants to rescue a bird and that question is asked do you have a cat we do ask on the application what animals you do have we've had some that have had snakes but yeah we as long as they're in a different room and their cups supervised you're not going to let these guys out and let the cat run you know and jump up on the cage but it's all in the home that's why we do the home inspection his i have two dogs and a cat the director has dogs like cats so yeah so we all have different different homes but everybody reacts to them differently you know i'll tell you interesting story so i've been a dog person my life and maybe as little kid we had cats for a short period time i really so called cat person i think  beautiful creatures but i've taken a few strays over over the years and of course they were independent they weren't really house cats they wanted to come around be fed and take off and go so i took in a stray called him cat and  would take off to go to the bathroom fly back you know never never destructive she never ruined anything and i didn't know this cat was in the house so leto was green and purple and blue and little bitty yellow  n so forth beautiful birds and i had a green feather duster that i musta left out or something like that it's part of the story so i leave and i come home i think for lunch break take the dogs out  i walk in the house and crank and ody would always be at the back door waiting for me to come home you know i think that hit a car pull a driveway so there's no no dogs and i see in the living room green feathers everywhere and i go i know my dogs wouldn't hurt lito they mean they slept leda slept with them so i figured the cat had gotten in and so you know your heart goes like boom right so i walk into the living room and then i'm saying there's the feather duster so it's not the bird calling the dogs in the burden nobody's coming here the cat was in the bedroom and one of the extra bedrooms on the bed ody was at the he was too small to jump on a bed he was at the foot of the bed on the floor creak was in the doorway they were both guarding the cats who were they were buddies with and the bird went to my bedroom and very itself under my pillow oh so that bird must had a terrifying few hours you know and but those dogs protected my bird from that cat because i'm sure that will natural instinct that cat to to chase after that bird took it all out on the feather duster like you know they rescued them i think they were probably about five years old when i had them or maybe not quite that old but one of them was to be eighteen and a half another one of fifteen and they were released born that way i don't think i had anything to do with other people that shouldn't have birds in their house most definitely why they just we have ones that cleaning supplies people that smoke these little guys  and it can kill pretty quickly so all these things his home hazards are stuff that we go over pretty extensively in our classes that's one of our big tenants is education even something when you're remodeling and you have a drive all done and the dust from the drywall can be thanks so much for watching healthy pets healthy owners remember you can hear me live every saturday morning on am twelve fifty nine to ten and give us a call or live call in show remember healthy pet is a healthy pet and when you're healthy when they're when you're healthy you're happy as well thanks again so 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