ALEX AND ANTONYS PARROT SANCTUARY
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Mission Statement
Alex and Antony’s Parrot Sanctuary (AAPS) is a nonprofit charity that envisions a future where birds are no longer kept as pets. Until that time, AAPS is dedicated to providing permanent sanctuary and compassionate care for older, abandoned, and displaced parrots. AAPS is also focused on providing information and education to potential parrot owners regarding what is required to ensure proper care of captive parrots.
About This Cause
Alex and Antony's Parrot Sanctuary, based in Washington State, provides indoor and outdoor space where parrots can interact with their own kind and live out their lives feeling safe and cared for. Parrots are unsuitable as pets for numerous reasons. They are noisy, messy, destructive, demanding, and long-lived. They require space to fly and explore, need bird companions, and are expensive to feed. Parrots are still, however, one of the most common pets along with fish, cats, and dogs. Since parrots do not make good pets, few pet parrots alive today will spend their lives in one home. Most will be passed from home-to-home and many will end up neglected, abused, or abandoned. There are too few appropriate adoptive homes, rescue organizations, and sanctuaries to adequately cope with the number of relinquished and abandoned parrots. For older parrots fortunate enough to have spent their lives in one home, finding a suitable home when separation from a caretaker becomes necessary can be very difficult. Just as with older people, older parrots tend to be more frail, and to have more medical issues than younger birds. Sanctuaries can be overwhelming places for parrots, but especially for older parrots that have spent decades living in a home environment. Of the few existing sanctuaries for pet parrots, even fewer are equipped to provide the individualized care often needed by older parrots. AAPS provides a place for these older parrots to live out their lives. AAPS believes the dissemination of knowledge gained from studies on parrots’ intelligence, physical and emotional needs and from the experiences of people living with parrots are key in changing views on keeping pet parrots. We believe that when potential bird owners have a full awareness of the commitment, requirements, and difficulties associated with having parrots in the home, they will be less likely to choose a parrot for a pet. At a minimum we hope they would choose not to buy a baby parrot, but instead would adopt an already homeless parrot along with a companion so neither must live a life being unable to interact with their own kind. In our lives, we’ve seen that views and behaviors currently considered acceptable can and do change over time (e.g. keeping large cats in small cages, smoking). Such changes encourage us, and reinforce our belief that current views on keeping parrots as pets can, and will, change.