I think some of my birds have been found!!!

[chickbea]

Well, at least you got some of your girls back. What a strange set of circumstances. There are a great many misguided "rescuers" out there, and often they end up doing more harm than good.

 

[fallenweeble]

i'm so glad you got some of your girls back! yea.
now, it sounds to me like the person who took your birds is, truely, crazy.
i do quite a bit of rescue work and trust me, a legitimate (key word being LEGITIMATE) rescuer does not go onto someone's property and steal an animal. in the very rare cases where there is a REAL problem (starving or sick animals) we call animal services and have them do that work legally.
it sounds like someone who went off of her medication wandered into your yard and started hallucinating!
sigh.
anyway, it's so awesome you got some of your girls back. if you ever get any info on this person i would for sure press charges! it's just not right.

f. weeble

 

[johnnyjack]

 

[eggchel]

In many states, stealing livestock or farm produce is a felony, regardless of the actual value.

 

[ole-crone]

We're a university town and so there are experiment stations all over the place. When we first moved here, they were right out in the open but then PETA started "helping" and so most of them are behind locked areas now.

The biggest rescue fiasco I remember concerned the coyotes. We have a coyote experiment station. They are well treated, the only thing they are experimenting with is contraceptives in their food. They aren't killed or operated on. They are well-fed and the study is to see how effective it will be in the wild. Who knows, maybe the results from this will help with feral cats as well.

Anyway, PETA broke into the compound one winter night and released the animals. Animals that had never been really wild, had been fed by humans their entire lives. Only a few were caught the next day - those who were too afraid to leave the area. Most of them ended up dead on the nearby highway, shot by local farmers or starving in the mountains from nothing to eat.

What good did that do? The experiment station is still there, doing research.

 

[JackieK318]

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Everyone always has clean water, lots of food in clean containers, heat lights, fresh bedding (changed monthly and refreshed bi-weekly), fed tons of fruit and veggies (scraps, leftovers, and romaine lettuce) and lots of attention. Their coop is 10x12.

The ONLY thing I could even imagine this lady hating was the lack of fence. She kept telling me the first time she came by that my birds were going to get in the street and get run over.

Besides, I don't even know for 100% that it's her.

No word about the other birds yet.