{"id":14854,"date":"2021-03-21T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/blog\/?p=14854"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T21:45:22","slug":"why-rescuing-a-bird-can-be-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=14854","title":{"rendered":"Why Rescuing a Bird Can Be So Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday (Friday 3\/20\/2020) Catherine answered a call from “Wanda”.<\/span><\/p>\n

2-1\/2 years ago we rescued Keto which was an 800-mile adventure.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last month we rescued Chili from Crown Pt IN, 6 miles away.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wanda had been hired to clear an abandoned home.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Not only were the contents left behind, but 3 dogs and a cockatiel awaited new destinies.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was to be done clearing the small single family home by Monday, and had rehomed 2 of 3 dogs but the tiel needed a forever home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone was coming for the third dog on Saturday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bird was 3 miles away in our hometown of Lowell, Indiana.<\/span><\/p>\n

I grabbed 1 of our stainless travel cages and a big birdie (baby) blanket.<\/span><\/p>\n

After working through the whole wrong address thing I saw Wanda waiting at the end of the driveway in front of the yellow-sided house, which was dark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Editors note:<\/strong> I don’t know if the house had heat. <\/span>Endnote<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I asked to be invited in for cage migration in an enclosed area – we like bathrooms because they are small).<\/span><\/p>\n

Wanda replied: “No, the stench is too great.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked: Can I give you my cage and have you do the transfer?”<\/span><\/p>\n

“No, I can’t handle the bird, I’ll bring him out” Wanda offered.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Filthy<\/p>\n

The picture (above) was the cage I was handed, with “Barney” I learned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wanda called out as I placed the cage in our Escape (lined with a tarp for moments like these) “Take care of him!”<\/span><\/p>\n

My retort was “He just won the lottery, take care and stay healthy”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barney and I were home 8 minutes later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: Because I’m running late on some other projects, I unapologetically am offering unedited videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Travel cage from car to new forever (home) <\/span>cage migration (all our birds have at least 3 cages each.)<\/span><\/p>\n

No selfie yet with each of us because we’re letting him slowly adjust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After migration to the travel carrier, coming out of<\/span>
\n the car, one more migration into his forever home<\/span><\/p>\n

When discussing the possibility of rehoming, we let 2 factors lead us to keep him.<\/span><\/p>\n

File under “Here’s your sign.” (Bill Engvall)<\/span><\/p>\n

1) The bird was living in our neck of the woods<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Barney was Catherine’s father’s name (now deceased).<\/span><\/p>\n

Always Trust Karma <\/span>Fast Forward ~ September 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Room<\/p>\n

Room with 4 birdcages housing from left-to-right African ringneck –
\nQuaker- 8 budgies – grey cockatiel “Barney”, his spiritually given name
\n(not in those words) per the bird’s history provided by Wanda.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday (Friday 3\/20\/2020) Catherine answered a call from “Wanda”. 2-1\/2 years ago we rescued Keto which was an 800-mile adventure. Last month we rescued Chili from Crown Pt IN, 6 miles away. Wanda had been hired to clear an abandoned home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[195,204,200,201,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-parrot-care","category-bird-rescue","category-cockatiels","category-feeding-pet-birds","category-ringnecks"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/catherine-rescue-cockatiel-back-car-8.jpg?resize=600%2C445&ssl=1",600,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/catherine-rescue-cockatiel-back-car-8.jpg?resize=463%2C348&ssl=1",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/catherine-rescue-cockatiel-back-car-8.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/catherine-rescue-cockatiel-back-car-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,false]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/catherine-rescue-cockatiel-back-car-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phcfkq-3RA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}