PeterinToronto
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- Feb 5, 2020
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Hi everyone!
I'm really happy to register here; I've developed quite an obsession with parrots, thanks to Youtube videos. I've been very saddened to learn of the current parrot crisis, which I had no idea about. I have a question, I hope it's ok to post it here, as I don't know which would be the best of the many other fora for this.
While I don't think I can try to share my home with a bird right now, I would like to offer to volunteer at a local rescue. I'm a musician, with an often changing weekly schedule. Do rescues generally require working the same 'shift' per week, or is it usually more flexible than that?
And one other question: I saw a video where a lady told of catching a serious illness (I think psittacosis) from a pet-shop parrot. Would this be a risk, or developing Bird Keeper's Lung, from volunteering? I'm a clarinetist, so I need to think about this.
Thanks a lot!
Peter
I'm really happy to register here; I've developed quite an obsession with parrots, thanks to Youtube videos. I've been very saddened to learn of the current parrot crisis, which I had no idea about. I have a question, I hope it's ok to post it here, as I don't know which would be the best of the many other fora for this.
While I don't think I can try to share my home with a bird right now, I would like to offer to volunteer at a local rescue. I'm a musician, with an often changing weekly schedule. Do rescues generally require working the same 'shift' per week, or is it usually more flexible than that?
And one other question: I saw a video where a lady told of catching a serious illness (I think psittacosis) from a pet-shop parrot. Would this be a risk, or developing Bird Keeper's Lung, from volunteering? I'm a clarinetist, so I need to think about this.
Thanks a lot!
Peter