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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:00 PM
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Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 09:16 PM by AlienGirl
At the cockatoo board I frequent, someone posted a link to this article:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5407680p-4885764c.html

Some excerpts:
At Martha Scudder’s Parrot Depot in Roy, hundreds of parrots, including many endangered species, have lived in cold, wet, filthy conditions for years, according to eyewitness accounts, experts, deposed testimony and scores of post-mortem reports.
The people and documents indicate Scudder’s has neglected hundreds, and possibly thousands, of parrots over its 25-year history. A veterinarian working with the Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County called the 5-acre farm on 332nd Street South a “concentration camp” for birds.
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Several complaints about Scudder’s have been made to the Humane Society and one to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Plus, animal control inspectors have checked the property and warned Scudder that they believe the facility violates the state’s animal cruelty law.

Still, not a single bird has been removed or a fine issued.


This place is in Washington State, not that far from where I live. It really, really needs to be shut down ASAP and the parrots placed in rescues and adoptive homes. I am steamed about this situation, and need some ideas of what to do. Maybe mass email/phone campaigns? Please help me figure out how to rescue these birds!

Tucker

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