What are the normal fees for adopting a rescued cockatoo or other large parrot?
Have you adopted a bird? What are your experiences? Any additional information or thoughts on bird adoption would also be appreciated. Thanks.
I run a rescue here in Michigan, and unless there is a great big vet bill or something, typically I don’t charge a rehoming fee. But, I’m a nazi about making sure that the people who come to me learn everything they possibly can about their bird before it ever gets to their house.
My philosophy is this: If you want a big bird, you’re going to get a big bird whether it’s from me or someone else. So, rather than have you go out and just get one on your own, I’d rather give a good home to the ones that come here, and I do that by asking you to read, read, read, and then I quiz you on all you’ve learned. I do home checks, and then if all goes well, your bird is fostered into your care.
The foster time can range from 6 months to 18 months depending. If things are shaky at the 6 month home visit, then we can extend the foster period. If they’re still shaky at a year, our choices are to take back the bird or to foster for an additional six months.
Once we’re confident you’re good on your own and you don’t need our help anymore, then the bird is then adopted to you, with the stipulation that if it ever gets to the point where you must get rid of the bird or if something happens to you and you need to give it to someone else…the bird comes back to us. If you have a particular person in mind to take your bird, we’ll begin the same process with the next person.
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos feeding on Pine Cones, Bellarine Peninsula.
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