Originally posted on The Little Blue Dog:
It never ceases to amaze me how destructive we, as humans, are to this planet. My efforts are typically focused on dog rescue, but I have recently become interested in bird rescue and found out the following startling, upsetting and very sad statistics about the sale of birds…
Well… sort of. This is a post about Ollie, whose full name is Olórin, which was one of Gandalf’s names once upon a time before Middle Earth. I don’t think he gets enough screen time, you see: (I’ll warn you, this has my voice in it. It’s weird, and I’m sorry.) So, this little guy […]
Breaking News: Miniature Pterodactyls wreak havoc in author K.M. Alleena’s old, drafty college apartment. Just kidding — I just received my order of a ton of handmade bird toys from Crystal’s Bird Toys in Canada. If I can help it, this will be the only company I will use for the majority of the bird […]
Today was another of the endless cage cleaning days. In fact, I cleaned pretty much the entire house. It was alright. Not my favorite thing to do, but alas. Totally necessary. I usually let the birds out, because while I clean their cages, this affords them over an hour straight of shenanigans where my hands […]
Hello everyone! Tonight, I have guest post for you guys from one of my friends who runs the rescue, No Feather Left Behind! Please Consider donating to the rescue if possible — all information to do so is below! ~*~ Name: Jen Budrock-Flahery Organization: No Feather Left Behind nofeatherleftbehind@gmail.com | 561-703-3194 | Operating in South […]
Recently, I got a new bird cage for the ‘tiels! It was most exciting — all the pieces and instructions and my utter inability to put it together for myself. It sat around for a couple weeks while I tried to make my schedule work with someone — anyone — who could lend a hand. […]
Good Morning! (It doesn’t really matter what time it is when you read this, because as long as there is any form of light — sun, lamp, candle, computer screen — it’s automatically morning to a bird.) Want to know what makes each one of my mornings equally annoying and amazing? Yup, you guessed it. The […]
True story. This picture was staged, I have to admit. I gave Dapple a memo as I was trying to catch a bird-shaming picture. That venture didn’t work out too great. She promptly took the note and shredded it, carefully placing whatever little pieces she could get off of it in the food bowl behind […]
Parrots — any parrots — are absolute tricksters at the core of their being. Even the most cute and gentle budgie in the world will be a weirdo at heart, waiting for a way to outsmart the primate who dared keep them in cages. I speak from experience. On Tuesday afternoons, 12:30p until 3:30p give […]
You know what’s weird? I’m a bird person. No really — think back to everyone you know. How many of those people own happy, healthy pet birds? How many of those people let their birds out of their cages? And of those, how many talk about their bird(s) as if they were people? I can […]
The Birds That Own Me 