Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary

M.A.R.S.

What to do when an adoptee comes back into our rescue.

Sidney Rose is an amazing bird by anyones standards. Sidney Rose is an Umbrella Cockatoo.
She is loving, joyful and most of the time a happy peek a boo saying kind of girl who also loves to sing. She sings very off key ahhhh that’s very off key.
We love Sidney Rose. We had such high hopes that she found her forever home once again. But it was just not in the cards for her.
Please know the adopter tried everything to make it work. There were multiple discussions about trying all sorts of hopeful solutions. None worked. It was sadly not a good fit.

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

Thanksgiving at M.A.R.S. is for the birds, Parrots of course!

  The butternut squash and pumpkin is in the oven roasting. All the parrots of our exotic bird rescue will be enjoying the delicious bounty either today or tomorrow depending on what the weather brings our way. Rain is predicted for today. 

 We only feed fresh foods when the birds are outside. Doing so inside would create a bug issue and we have learned through the years to not to allow that to happen. 
Once again to all a Happy Thanksgiving from M.A.R.S.

The bottle or the ball? Jack the lorikeet makes a mixed decision.

Sometimes here at MARS our Florida based Parrot rescue, you simply have to stop and smell the roses as they say. In this case it is playing ball with and Lorikeet named Jack. 

Ziggy an Umbrella Cockatoo heard the noise and decided to attempt to join in. Although Jack tried to coax her to play the activity was to new to her to grasp the concept of playing ball. 

Exotic birds have different responses to new activities but I am convinced Jack who is an awesome ball player (when a bottle is not offered) will be a good teacher for Ziggy to learn this new way to play.

Thanks for reading and watching from all here at MELBOURNE AVIAN RESCUESANCTUARY.