I can straighten this out right now. I live in Dayton and if you read my earlier posts about my rescue of our lilac crown amazon you will see that this place was a disgrace! (that is putting it midly) I will give you a bit of a background. One day after church I decided to stop by this "supposed" sanctuary with my husband and children. ( I was interested in getting a bird and thought I would start out looking to rescue one) When I walked in the door I was almost knocked over with the odor of this place. I don't understand actually except that it was filthy. Birds really don't produce that much "urine" odor however the stench in this place stayed in my nose for hours after leaving. This "so called" sanctuary was FILTHY. I have never in my life seen anything like it. The owners actually lived in the center of this filth in a make shift room. I am sure at one time they may have had good intentions. In fact they had a store and bred birds many years ago in my town. It was a nice enough place back then. (It was a different location then) Now all I can say is that they became hoarders. The birds were never let outside of the cages (except for a couple of them) Every bird you asked about was said that it was not up for adoption. I want to stress again how absolutley filthy this place was. The owner would walk around in bare feet on floors that were just covered with bird feces, food, dirt etc. The birds were in horrible shape. I left there so depressed, my husband left in shock because he knew I was interested in getting a bird and I think he was scared of what this would mean after seeing this place. My daughters were practically in tears and we all felt so sad. I told my family I would never step foot in this place again however fast forward to a Sunday where my breeders store was not open on this day and I felt like I wanted to be around some birds. I went back with my 14 year old daughter, we walked in and we were handed a lilac crown amazon. She was 15 at the time and in HORRIBLE shape. She was in a filthy, tiny cage. She was clipped so short that now a year later her feathers are finally to the point where a normal clip might be. I was so grossed out by this place that I sat outside with her. I felt so sorry for her, she had a large lump on her neck, she was in very bad shape. This woman that owns this so called rescue does not vet any of her birds. In court she stated that her vet bill last year on all of these birds was $100. Really? I spend more than that vetting one bird. I ended up taking this lca home, I brought her to the vet and found out that I was looking at another $1000 in vet bills to get her healthy. I had given $100 non refundable deposit to bring her home for 3 days to see if I wanted to keep her. The owner of this place wanted $450 for her. The vet was appaled, not vetting, bad shape and she wanted $450. He actually made a phone call and told her she needed to release the bird to me. Any way, I just want to let all of you know that might feel that this lady was wronged, she was not. I also heard of someone that made a deposit in a bank for her and saw a big 6 figure number in her acct. There is lots going on in the courts right now, because it was supposed to be a non-profit. I can tell you one thing, wherever these birds are now, they are in a better place. This was an embarrasing disgrace. I was able to save one bird I wish I could have saved more. There is also talk about the fact that she caught wind about the humane society coming in and started moving many, many of the birds out. She had way more birds than 100 when I was in there. Trust me, this was a horrible place.
The CAG in that picture looks just like my Gracie. Nakie chicken!
And they had a story of a roadside zoo in Oklahoma that bred tigers to just get tons of cubs for the public to play with (for real!) Within a year 23 cubs had died 
