MIRA TWETI on PEOPLE & PARROTS and THE NEED FOR PARROT RESCUES

THE PARROTS AND PEOPLE PARADOX --
CBS EVENING NEWS - May 9, 2009
REPORTER: Bill Whitaker
"Taking care of a parrot is a much more daunting challenge than most think and, as Bill Whitaker reports, some frustrated owners are abandoning their birds."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/06/eveningnews/main4996913.shtml?sourc...

MIRA TWETI is a journalist and author.
You can buy her Book "Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species" at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001QXC4BI/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5F...

Mira also has a Blog at:
http://www.parrots.org/index.php/blog_mtweti/

To find out WHY so many Parrots (especially Cockatoos) wind up in Rescues, visit: http://www.mytoos.com/ and
http://www.parrotsperch.com/rescue2.htm

Also, please read:
"WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO RESCUE A PARROT" by Anne Feldhacker:
http://wellvet.com/rescueparrot.html

And please remember...'DON'T BUY, DON'T BREED, ADOPT A PARROT IN NEED!'

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[TravellerFellow]

back again, and I shared this on my face book account. and YES! cockatoos (as all parrots) can stress a person out big time.

[wildlifeguardian]

@TravellerFellow:

Are Albert and Peaches getting on your nerves a bit, too?

Nana is trying my patience...but what can you do but love 'em to pieces...sigh...

[OzPix]

Mira is a very good friend of ours but we had not seen this video, so thanks for the share.

[wildlifeguardian]

Oh my gosh, what a small world! :>)

[featherlover59]

Very good video, and a necessary info site for those considering parrot ownership. Guess I will stick to parakeets until I retire and get to stay home all day!

[wildlifeguardian]

And then there is the problem that they could outlive you...I worry about that every day...the big parrots just weren't meant to be pets...sigh...

[guada71]

Why must we destroy everthing...WHY???

[TravellerFellow]

best quote I ahve EVER heard. a parrot, a perpetual three year old, running around with a can opener in the front of his/her face. HA HA AH ABSOLUTELY spot on. *****

[mizoginwinter]

Humans need to really THINK before doing anything - we are a race of destruction whether its animals, birds, people, environment - THINK FIRST! Stop going around your busy lifestyles making money and never thinking for anyone or anything else. These parrots are beautiful - I have an Amazon - they are a lot of work and noisy but very rewarding. Don't buy and pay hundreds of pounds to these money making schemers. Adopt a homeless parrot. There are so many unfortunately. Start caring.

[TravellerFellow]

@wildlifeguardian Peaches has been doing FULL TIME nesting activities. I nearly fill her house with apple tree branches which she turns into saw dust. Now during New Moon, her hormones are surging as well. Albert has just discovered CHEWING. card board, wood, but not furniture as yet. ha ha ha

[TravellerFellow]

All our Parrots, (Baby&Piggy-male Quaker Parrots); Mischka&Frieda (female Quaker parrots), Albert (Male white cockatoo), and Peaches (Salmon Crested Cockatoo female) are rescued. I support Parrot acquisition by RESCUE ONLY. GOd knows that there are FAR too many Parrots, waiting and just trying to survive harsh conditions in need of RESCUE. thanks for uploading this video. Traveller Fellow

[featherlover59]

Exactly, that would be a fear that I would have having any pet as I reach the end of my life.....who will take care of my pets....and the way that I do.