04/06/2024
Good evening all,
I hope you are well on this gloomy Tuesday we are having! I’m coming to you all with a very unusual post today… It’s one that I have debated making as I do not wish to associate myself or my business with the negativity and lack of professionalism of this bunch, however they have publically made false claims about Lyly’s Parrot Care Services and have insulted me personally.
The Facebook group, Lost Parrots & Birds Found UK ( https://facebook.com/groups/Tazzy2012/ ) was once a group that we would use to help our clients, local families of missing birds, and vulnerable found birds in the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire areas. We had to stop doing this very early on as the admins were unhappy with us offering advice to others and free services to found birds.
One admin in particular has been very vocal about her dislike for me and my business. This admin is Alison Little, founder of The Haven Parrot Rescue. Alison has publically called me a fraud, “dodgy as hell”, and has privately told me that they need to protect birds from people like myself. You must be wondering why anyone would openly come out with these comments… Maybe she used my services and was unhappy with them? Or perhaps I have been insulting of her and her charity? Surely something must’ve happened to prove that I’m a dodgy fraudster who steals and mistreats birds? Wrong! There was absolutely 0 history or communication between myself and Alison prior to us offering help in this Facebook group. She is not aware of my professional and voluntary experience with birds, and of any qualifications I have. I wholeheartedly cannot even begin to understand why such defamatory comments have been made about us.
Alison claims that our business started on 9th Aug 2023, off the basis that I opened this page on the 8th. She hasn’t actually given me the chance to say this to her myself, but I’m sure many of you will know that the business was running for far longer under my own name, and that many small, local businesses do not have pages at all…
She claims that I do not know what I am doing when it comes to grooming found birds, off the basis that she assumes they are pointlessly cleaned off immediately after being found. I can’t tell you how she jumped to that conclusion either. I arrange to clean any found birds, free of charge, to help those who find them wounded or dirty and don’t know how to care for them. This is arranged to happen two or three days after the bird has been found and has rested, unless the bird is wounded in which case their wounds will be cleaned immediately.
We very rarely offer to temporarily take in and assist with rehoming birds (I have only ever done this 3 times). As you can imagine, we are in over our heads with birds at times and are certainly not looking for any more pets!
The other admin in question is Jackie Amos, who as far as I can tell does not volunteer or work in this field. I have posted Jackie and Alison’s messages about my business, which were sent to me by Alison for no real reason that I am aware of, just so you can get an idea of what they have had to say about us. Unfortunately, Alison and Jackie are very quick to delete comments or revoke our access to them, so I can’t view, screenshot or share the public comments they have made.
As you may know, the money and time we spend rescuing animals and supporting families with birds, other rescues, and the birds in our own community trumps everything we have gained through this business by a long run! For this reason, it is particularly devastating to read the claims and countless insults made by the group admins and by Alison of The Haven Parrot Rescue. For this reason, we will now only recommend the group Lost & Found Parrot Team UK ( https://www.facebook.com/share/9uFsKUUyUig8vZBZ/?mibextid=K35XfP ) to you all, and since my personal and business accounts have been banned and blocked from the group of angry admins, and I can no longer see or share posts about birds in the area that may benefit from our help in the Lost Parrots & Birds Found UK group, I ask that these are forwarded to us through other means.
Finally, I ask that my clients and those who have benefitted from our rescue efforts continue providing reviews, messages and comments to prove the authenticity and positivity of Lyly’s. I also open my inbox to anyone with recommendations on how to proceed with cases of defamation by charity organisations.
Thank you, our ever-growing flock, for always supporting us,
Lyly x
