04/09/2018
If you haven't heard, our wonderful rescue, Feathered Friends of MI is retiring. The avian community will miss this wonderful place but all our love to you for all you've given these past years.
To my online bird family!
This is a hard announcement, and while it’s been coming for a good four years now and I knew it was coming and had to come- it is still hard.
I am retiring from rescue due to personal and family needs.
This decision comes on the heels of what I have to say have been some of the hardest years of my adult life. However, while hard they have also been extremely fulfilling and taught me much on perseverance. I will miss it, and you, and I am sure I will still be around, helping in my way.
I don’t wish to get into numerous details but I feel like moving forward this is the best choice for all.
I’ve always wanted to retire on the upswing and close down without any emergency (we all have to eventually, or at least most all) and things have come together in such a way as to make that very possible. I feel a lot of honor in that. Rarely are we so lucky to have everything go as smoothly as this is going.
So I will be placing numerous adoptable birds here in Michigan with my dear friend Tanya. She is being given my aviaries/cages and a personal donation by me.
Bird Gardens of Naples will be taking over greenies, as well as Huey and possibly any of my adoptables that aren’t placed by the first week of September. To Bird Gardens I will be transferring all of our rescues cash funds. I’m happy to report that we’ve been very responsible with our funds and it is more then a little, and yet considering the greenies and Huey aren’t tame nowhere near enough. Yet I am proud to send it. Bird gardens will also honor my one promise to a dad and his grey parrot.
It has been with the greatest pleasure that I have served the avian community for a good 10 years now. My heart is a little broken, and a little excited with what new chapter in my life I will dream up.
For all of the reasons in the world - I am closing adoptions down so the birds can get to know their next caretakers and be adopted from a place who can take all the time in the world to do it right. My wild birds deserve to be birds and they will get that too. Seperating the greenies for adoptions never felt right to chandra and myself- they are getting a beautiful new aviary in Florida to themselves. There will be zero flash adoptions. Everyone is currently spoken for in the best way they can be and that was a goal of mine too.
Thank you Keri, and thank you Tanya.
Thank you to the numerous donors and people who helped make this place great.
Cheryl, Amanda, Nicole and Chandra. You guys are my world. Thank you.
Love,
marie
