Collected Item: “Exotic Birds Rescued During the Pandemic”
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Exotic Birds Rescued During the Pandemic
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text story
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
As a parrot owner myself, this story is near and dear to my heart. Amid the national news headlines of dog and cat adoptions sweeping the nation during the pandemic, the opposite is true for our feathered friends. Parrots require a great deal of time, care, money, and space. Most birds easily outlive dogs and cats, and the larger ones often outlive their owners. Parrots can be loud, demanding and messy. They don't respect that you are in a zoom meeting with the CEO or that your neighbor's baby is asleep in the apartment on the other side of the wall. With people working from home, losing income, and/or being hospitalized or passing away from COVID-19, many parrots have been surrendered to rescues.
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Pandemic Pet, pet, bird, parrot, feather, noisy, expensive, adopt, rescue, surrender, Las Vegas, Nevada
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https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/feb/04/pandemic-group-rescue-exotic-birds-las-vegas/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Hillary Davis
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2021-02-04