I was searching petfinder for a rescue to possibly adopt a parrot in the near future. Most of the rescues require you to live within 60-100 miles before they will consider. Is this normal? I am pretty big on adopting animals from shelters/rescue group. I have a 6 year old pug I rescued from the pound that I actually got for free because they were going to put her to sleep and now I couldn't live without her. I don't have a problem with buying a parrot from the petstore again, because I absolutely love my baby cockatoo I got from there. His/Her cage is massive. I could actually sit and be on my knees inside the cage and have room to move around. So anyways, I'm just really curious on how the rescue groups work. I've actually e-mail 2 of them and that was weeks ago and I've never heard back. Typically if I don't hear back I don't even want to bother going any further with them because it makes me feel as if they don't care.