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An All Volunteer Humane Organization
Accredited by Both
The American Sanctuary Association (ASA)
&
The Association of Sanctuaries (TAOS)
Hello. Welcome to The Lucky Parrot Sanctuary!
We are glad you stopped by. Thank you for visiting.
Parrots are fantastic, incredible, and charming creatures, endowed with strong emotions, and superior
intelligence, they are the feathered equivalents of Chimpanzees and Dolphins.
Parrots are also the most demanding and misunderstood of all companion animals.
People don't understand what they are getting themselves into, when they first purchase a parrot.
The anticipated wonderful experience, often turns into something very different, and very sad, for
both people and parrots; simply because of normal human events, a new boy friend, a marriage, a new baby, a divorce, a move
to a new home, and... the bird must go.
Sold to the next home, where history repeats itself, until 4 or 5 homes later, we, the sanctuaries,
take in some of these rejected birds. "The Lucky Parrots".
Most sanctuaries are overflowing, and therefore, many of these perfectly healthy parrots are destroyed,
killed, because there too few loving homes for them. A better balance must be found between current levels of parrot over-breeding
and the existing, present day over-population of parrots.
This is Muffy, and her friends Muffy is an African Grey Parrot, saved from an abusive situation. Muffy has almost completly
recovered from her past life, where she was fed alcohol on a regular basis. People at the bar thought this was fun. It wasn't
fun for Muffy. Unfortunatly parrots are considered property in many states and a person can treat their property any way they
choose.
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LIVING WITH A PARROT IS NOT EASY.
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Parrots are wild creatures. They may be domestically bred, but they are NOT domesticated.
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Parrots are messy creatures.
They fling food.
They will poop on your carpet.
They will eat your furniture.
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They may never speak, but they will be loud.
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They will be jealous of your friends and family. They will bite.
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Parrots are high maintenance companions, and they don't care about money.
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A parrot is a very long term commitment. The larger parrots can live to be 80 years old.
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Please before you consider sharing your home with a parrot, learn about parrots. Join a local bird club, perhaps then adopt
a parrot, at the club, and save a life.
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