Animal Welfare United States Project #9380

Save the Lives of Domestic Pigeons & Doves

by Palomacy Pigeon and Dove Adoptions

Save the Lives of Domestic Pigeons & Doves

Project Report | Mar 12, 2012
3/14 is Bonus Day! Donations Earn 30% Bonus Match

By Elizabeth Young | Founding Director

Volunteers JJ, Janelle & Clare saving lives

MickaCoo's motto could be "Doing the Impossible Everyday!"

When I first learned back in 2007 that domestic pigeons were routinely being killed in Bay Area animal shelters for lack of a home, I was told that finding adopters for them would be impossible.

In 2011, MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue placed 333 birds that would otherwise have been killed into wonderful homes. So it isn't impossible but it is very, very challenging and we need all the help we can get.

This Wednesday, March 14th, all online donations to MickaCoo at GlobalGiving.org will earn a 30% matching bonus up to $1,000 per donor until matching funds run out! (There is $50,000 available.) In addition to the 30% match, GlobalGiving is offering a $1,000 bonus to the project that raises the most funds that day and a $1,000 bonus to the project that receives donations from the most individual donors!

Your generous support on behalf of these overlooked, underserved birds is what makes the impossible happen for them. If you are able, please make an online donation to MickaCoo this Wednesday 3/14. (The campaign starts at midnight EST so 9 PM on Tuesday 3/13 for those of us on the West Coast.) And please- share this request with your friends and family. Your compassion is contagious.

Together, we are saving lives and we are shifting paradigms! In addition to fostering and placing birds ourselves, we are also helping shelters to increase their ability to place the pigeons and doves that come in to their facilities (read about what the Penisula Humane Society and SF Animal Care & Control are doing).

On behalf of all the birds that you are helping to save, I send our heartfelt thanks.

Aviary built for adopted & foster MickaCoo pigeons

Adopters with special needs pigeons Ava & Jenny

Rescued pij Biscuit at Wildwood Vet Hospital

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Jan 13, 2012
Meet Percy, Pearl and Zella

By Elizabeth Young | Founding Director

Injured baby pigeon Percy at the animal shelter

When injured king pigeons like Percy, Pearl and Zella arrive in animal shelters, they are usually killed. While their wounds are treatable, shelter adoption rates even for healthy pigeons are very low and so injured pigeons are routinely killed unless a rescue like MickaCoo is available to provide avian vet care, foster housing and adoption services.

Just like dogs and cats that find themselves helpless and homeless in an animal shelter, birds like Percy and Pearl and Zella want to live. Why shouldn't our compassion include them?

Thanks to YOUR support, Percy, Pearl and Zella were rescued by MickaCoo. Each one has been taken into our foster care- their needs assessed, transported to and from avian vets, nursed and medicated and each of these three very lucky birds is recovering and doing great.

They would be dead if not for your support.

Four week old baby king pigeon Percy had a minor wound, likely the result of a predator's attack when he and several other king pigeons were "released" on Christmas Eve in a San Francisco park. He was extremely lucky to survive long enough to be taken to Animal Care & Control. MickaCoo was immediately contacted and, because of your support, able to provide the antibiotics and supportive care needed for him to heal from what otherwise might have been a fatal infection. He is fostered with two other Christmas Eve-released survivors and is available for adoption.

Pearl, another baby king pigeon, suffered a dislocated knee. Despite the pain and the procedures that she has had to endure to fix it, she is a feisty young bird who, rather surprisingly, demonstrates real interest in people. She was paired with another baby king pigeon, Carmine, on the day after she was rescued and they are inseperable. Carmine always goes along with Pearl to all her vet appointments. They are childhood sweethearts and may well grow up to become a mated pair. If they do choose to stay bonded, they will be adopted out together.

Zella is a big adult male king pigeon that has had extraordinary good luck. He arrived at the animal shelter with a big wound that appeared to be healing but that MickaCoo knew needed to be checked out. Upon examination, the vet discovered that somebody had previously stitched the wound with dental floss (without curing the infection). This means that Zella, who was probably being used as somebody's breeder, incurred a terrible wound that he survived, was amateurishly stitched up and then escaped (again?) and survived in the city long enough to get picked up and taken to the animal shelter and be rescued by MickaCoo and receive the vet care he required! He is recovering from surgery indoors and is quite at ease in his new, posh housing.

Each of these birds, just like all the others in our care, is a unique individual, deserving of compassion.

If they could, I know they would thank you for saving their lives.

I thank you for supporting MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue.

Pearl's knee was dislocated

Zella recuperating after surgery

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Dec 27, 2011
We Did It!!!

By Elizabeth Young | Founding Director

Rescued fantail Dolly says Thank you!

We did it! Thank you SO much! With the generous help of 51 donors, MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue has met the challenge of raising $4K and secured a permanent place within the GlobalGiving* online community! With this important step, we have successfully opened an entirely new channel through which to publicize the plight of abandoned and homeless pigeons and doves.

MickaCoo believes any bird that can live free, should live free but we also believe that when timing out at shelters, domestic unreleasable pigeons and doves should have the benefit of a rescue to help them find homes. Euthanasia should not be the solution to their homelessness.

By supporting MickaCoo, you are challenging that approach and supporting an ever-growing compassion. Everybody deserves a chance and, with your help, MickaCoo saves birds that otherwise would have been euthanized. Together, just this year, we placed more than 300 pigeons and doves in wonderful, forever homes. You can read the story of one of our adoptions and see pictures of some of the birds we helped in Home for the Holidays.

And the demand for homes is ongoing. MickaCoo has more than 115 pigeons and doves in foster care, awaiting their forever homes. We are full and have a waiting list of birds that need rescue. Please continue to spread the word about how easy it is to save innocent lives by providing a home to a pair of pigeons or doves.

Your help and support matter! Together, we have earned our place in the GlobalGiving community. Pigeons and doves are no less worthy of compassion and care than any other living creature.

Thank you!

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