Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary

Bird Care

Recreating the missing post “Fill the toy Tree for Christmas”

Happy New Year to all who follow MARS, our Florida based parrot rescue.
Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary, EIN 80-0161378 was founded in 2008. Now entering into our 17th year, and just as determined as ever to better the lives of parrots in captivity.

The purpose of our almost annual fill the toy tree for Christmas drive is for the enrichment of the parrots who come through our doors. Teaching them to play and not rely solely on humans for all their entertainments is critical to having well adjusted birds as pets. This is true I am sure you would agree for all pets. Although, we humans can be most entertaining to these amazing feathered ones, the importance of self play can never be stressed enough.

With all that said, very happy to share that our drive was relatively successful. We were fortunate to order, with so many of you donating dollars, pounds of toys for the parrots and even the ones we call the termites have happy busy beaks. Remember we order wholesale so lots more toys for the dollars donated.

Again, thank you to all of you and please remember us all year long. Rescue is and always will be an ongoing commitment made possible with your continued generosity. Thank you for reading.

Cody steps up to the scale, what a good boy.

Cody, the little Blue Crown Conure certainly appears to be up for the weight loss program his owner has laid out for him.

We were certainly skeptical as you can imagine if he would or would not do so. Just knowing his little life hung in the balance was difficult knowing. Now add to that, needing the continuous cooperation to achieve this goal from a bird. We could only hope and pray it was possible.

In addition you can ask yourself as we did. Is such drastic weight loss feasible? Now please make a mental note of this fact, weight loss can not be achieved to fast. That is also life threatening.

The proof you see here is in the video.
We will share very soon the symptoms noticed by the owner on our next blog post. Just out of time now to do so Thanks for following our story.

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It is usually said that Weight Loss is for the birds

In this case, that saying could not be truer. Cody a sweet, happy and totally adorable Blue Crown Conure needed a major change in his dietary habits.
Cody was recently diagnosed by our vet as morbidly obese. When you are told as an owner that your bird has boobs, you better immediately step up to the plate or scale in this case. There is no doubt at all that a life or death situation is facing this awesome little bird named Cody.
We are looking forward to learning how this all began with Cody and going on this weight loss journey with him

Our annual fill the Christmas Tree Toy Drive is coming to a close.

This year we are excited to say we have raised $675.00 from our  Facebook posting toward our annual “Fill the Christmas Tree Toy Drive”. Four very generous donors helped us get this far and we are so very grateful to them for doing so.

Now here is the reason for this post so late in the toy fund drive. All here at Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary are wondering if our supporters who receive  our web page feed, or simply follow our blog posts which sorry to say are few and far between, might just be able to help us reach our goal of  an additional 200.00 more so we can place our toy order ASAP……

We know this is last minute but as always we need all of your help to continue doing what we do here at M.A.R.S..

So if any of you can find it in your heart to donate at this wonderful time of the year  we can safely say you have helped  keep a whole lot of  parrots very quiet and happy for many months to come. At least three or four that is……

Donations can be made right here through our web page by simply clicking on the donate button.  And as I always say you will have made many beaks here at our  Florida based Parrot Rescue very very happy indeed.

Happy Holidays everyone and a very Merry Christmas to all.

Now that’s what we’re talking about, toys, toys, toys.

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Such good news to share with all of our followers here at M.A.R.S..

Thanks to your gererous monitary donations, we were able to not only almost fill our Christmas tree but we were also able to choose the kind of toys we know that specific parrots here at our rescue are known to go bird crazy over.

For instance, Zoey loves balls, and can go through one every few days. He took the larger ball, slung it, ran after it and played joyfully for a long time, with all the happy sounds a bird can make accompanying the entire episode. 

You all helped answer our Christmas wish  for the birds of Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary. We hope that you might consider a future donation for the same purpose.IMG_0482

We explained that we can buy wholesale and tax free, and your cash donations via pay pal or whatever method you choose, go a lot further to buying more toys because of that fact, 26 lbs.  Just look at our tree and see. Oh and I forgot to mention, that was only half the box of toys up there on the tree. Shelby was in the box picking out his own toy and prevented further decorating at the time.

We thank all of you and we thank Wylds Wingdom for our recent purchases, that we are happy to also say made it here to M.A.R.S. just in time to brighten all their lives till they find new families of their own to do their toy buying.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight, or goodmorning depending on when you are reading this post.