Happy Ever After
We are so excited to share just some of our success stories. Some of the birds who have found their forever homes as well as some who have suffered and recovered and live with in the rescue long term. This page shows all the hard work that the rescue does and how much of a difference we make. With out your continued support & help all this work would not be possible. So we thank each and every 1 of you who have helped and continue to help.
Alfie
Alright Treacle My names Alfie
Im a stunning Blue and Gold Macaw and I'm in my late 20's.
I am a cheeky boy, I came into rescue December 2023 and
have had such a good time.
My Safe house foster family have said that I'm soooooo cheeky, I don't think I am, I'm just me a typical young boy. I love to sing, dance, play, have fun and most of all I love my head scratches.
I didn't have the best start in life but I've certainly learned now that I can be friends and trust humans.
I do have feathered siblings in my safe house but I don't really like them. I much prefer to be the only bird in the house so I get all the attention which I will readily accept. I am also happy to sit and chill in my cage for parts of the day and I have made great friends with the human teenagers in the house who take me off into their bedroom for time alone with them which I really enjoy.
Safehouse mummy & Daddy feed me fresh, raw chop for breakfast which I wasn't used to at first but now I LOVE my fresh food, as well as my birdie pellets & freeze dried mixes for my tea. I also enjoy a few bits of nuts through the day and I get these for being a good boy and doing the things my humans ask me.
I have found my forever home with a loving, caring family who are the best humans ever, even when I destroy their television, they still think I am amazing.
I spend most or may day just hanging around with them. I settled really quickly making friends with everyone here.
They recently installed a fish tank which I will sit and watch for a ages. I am so happy here and they Keep the rescue up to date with regular messages and pictures which I love to pose for because lets face it I am a good looking Chappy, don't you think.
Kobi
Here's a Message from Kobi's New foerever humans
We contacted Joan to show interest and had such a positive first call. We contacted back at a more convenient time where we agreed to head down to the rescue and meet the birds and Manni, Joan and Manni where really lovely and welcomed me and my children into there home. We had a full conversation about each bird with as much info as possible. The cleanliness instantly struck me, arnt birds supposed to be messy?! Yet there cages where immaculate as where the birds and each one had a massive space! You could see the love and passion in the way they interacted with the birds and how they could tell each one apart! I was so impressed. We left and had two birds in mind. We called Joan to discuss our thoughts and she was fully understanding and we went to spend time with our chosen boy, Kobi. Manni was on hand as he was his boy. He still shouts ‘where’s Manni gone?! every single day. What I liked most was there was no point of trying to get rid of the birds fast! The love was there for them! Joan and Manni were understanding, educational and honest. They told us all the positives and all the negatives and made sure our choice was correct for our forever boy so we spent time getting to know Kobi before a joint choice was made to bring him home! And we absolutley love him. What a character and clever boy we have chosen. He is super sweet and social! Contact with Joan and Manni after taking Kobi home is brilliant, I message with any concerns or updates and get a response pretty fast! An unbelievable rescue and run brilliant! Very pleased to say we are now members of Joan’s north wales parrot rescue!
Pip & Squeek
Hey there. We are currently nicknames Pip & Squeek.
We came into rescue April 2024 together and are believed to both be females.
I'm the older one of the two and the one with a full orange head and I'm 4 years old. My little friend here has just turned 1 year old and she has been by my side since she was a little nipper.
We came into rescue through no fault of our own just our owner couldnt manage us anymore so we came to stay with Louise and Zac and their children who we love very much.
Since we have been here we have needed a few showers which we absolutely love. It made us feel so much better and able to preen ourselves much better with out the nasty taste. We have played with our human friends as well as their children and we love to be crazy clowns and bounce around the house.
I'm happy to play with anyone really but my little buddy is a little more reserved and stands back until she gets to know you.
We are very typical Caiques and known as the clown birds, We are very clever, as well as loving but we do have beaks and we will use them if we feel scared or threatened or you are doing something we don't like. Were not naughty or nasty we just get scared of you big humans sometimes. We require a lot of love, affection, care and attention from our humans.
We thought we had found our forever home but unfortunately it didn't work out so when Louise, Zac & the kiddies found out they decided we were going back to live with them. This time it wasn't on a safe house basis it was forever. We really love the children and they love us very much, We were all very sad when we left so now we are forever in our besties bedroom with the love and attention we deserve. We spend a lot of our time bouncing around upstairs and rubbing ourselves all over the lovely fluffy bedding just being crazy clowns. We love being picked up and pretending we are telephones while the crazy humans speak into our stomachs (and they call us crazy)
Dee
Alright dude's and dudettes, I'm 4 years old in July & my name is Dee.
When Louise & Zac picked me up April 2024 I was living a cage that wasn't really suitable for me next to other birds who were very dusty and the dust was thick all over my cage, toys & perches. I smelt really bad & I was really sad & fed up. I also lived with 4 dogs, which were huge & very very scary barking at me all the time so I was very afraid to move around.
My humans were in their 70s and were scared of me, the size of my beak and being bitten. So my short life as a youngling was spent stuck in this cage scared.
I never learnt to fly or get out for exercise, so when Louise and Zac got me home I didn't want to come out of the travel cage as I was just to scared. I felt so dirty, dusty, smelly and greasy and I didn't know how to look after myself, I was just feeling generally sad and untrusting. Louise gave me my first shower with special soap & I had a Vet visit for blood tests, beak & nail trimming. Over the following few weeks I moved from that travel cage into a small cage, then into a bigger cage as I started to learn how to move around and trust the textures under my very sore feet. I had loads of Showers & aloe vera plant rubbed on my feet and I started to feel so much better. They were feeding me all this strange stuff I hadn't eaten before but I absolutely loved it, it was so fresh, crunchy & tasty. I didn't really like being handled as I was so scared & had no balance so I felt I would fall, so I would flap frantically. I've been here a few month now and I have moved into what they call the big boy indoor aviary with other macaws. I've started to really trust the humans here, I will step up, take treats & be tickled. I'm still very unbalanced but they continue to help me. I have really started to love life & in time they promise me I will learn to fly like their other birds. I have settled in so well they have said I can live here forever with in the indoor aviary with my feathered friends and shiny skinned humans.
Pepe
Why hello there you beautiful humans.
My name is Pepe and aim 25 years young and Im a blue fronted female amazon Parrot.
So my dear humans I thought I would introduce myself and let you know a little bit about me and that I'm looking for my forever home.
I lived with my human and my feathered friend Joey for many many years and I was very loved by them both. I loved them both so very much but unfortunately my feathered friend Joey got poorly and passed away and this made me supper sad.
Then soon after I noticed my human friend was also becoming ill and she got really poorly too and couldnt care for me anymore so handed me over to Joan to find me a new forever home.
Loosing my friend Joey and My human has been really hard on me and its really made me very sad so I started to hurt myself by plucking, some may say very silly of me but its how I dealt with my grief at the time and is now become a bit of a habit that I would like to loose. Like many others who pluck for many reasons we do tend to get over looked but I'm a beautiful bird and I want to make someone super happy and bring them joy.
While I've been with Joan and Mani I've had a great time and I do love these guys but if the truth be known I'm sick of the noise round here and would like to move to a quieter household now. I think I would prefer a male human but if a lady is willing to put some time and effort in with me it may work but you would have to be as good as my first lady human or even better. If your willing to take on the challenge please do come and meet me and see my beauty with in.
I have Found my forever home Now and will update you all when I have fully settled in.
George
Welllllllll Hello there my name is George and I'm getting on a little now but I'm a fine old gentleman in my 40's.
I spent all my life living with my male human so I do tend to like men more than ladies.
I spent a lot of my time caged but my human used to sit in the same room with me and we kept each other company, chatting, listening to the wireless, even watching the television. It was a pretty amazing thing to go from 3 channels, to 4 channels, then to 5 and now wow there are hundreds of channels to watch how exciting.
In all honesty i think the reason I spent all my time in a cage was because that was easier for my human but that's ok I didn't fair badly from being caged most of my life.
I came into rescue a while ago now and I'm a pretty happy chilled bird really.
I do great everyone with a hello and I'm happy to be in my cage or on top of my cage on my play stand chilling or playing with my toys.
I'm really looking for my forever home now as all these amazons around me are just driving me crazy with there chitter chatter all the time, they just don't shut up and me well i just want to retire in piece and quiet and away from these young ones.
I do prefer men as that's all I've ever really known but just maybe if the right lady or couple came along you could sway me and teach me to love ladies.
I have found my forever home and will update you all shortly with how amazing it is once I've settled in
Jack
Alright humans I'm Jack and I'm 30+ years old so I'm slightly on the older side for an Amazon but I'm still pretty sprightly.
I didn't have the best of starts in life and spent a long time living in a seller. I think the humans got board of me so moved me to the seller and that's where I stayed for years and years.
One day the most beautiful angel walked into my dingey seller and she bought me from the humans who kept me in there.
I was so happy to get out of there and so eager to please my saving angel and over time we built a great friendship. I would sit on my cage, perches and even the furniture happily living my best life with my angel.
Years past of me living with my angel but sadly she started to get ill and told me she would never get better so had to make plans for my future when she will no longer be here. This made my heart hurt but I knew deep down she saved me once so she would make sure I went somewhere nice with nice people as my angel truly had a heart of gold for saving me the way she did.
She told me one day she approached a lovely lady called Joan and over time she got to know her and she reassured me Joan would really take care of me when she no longer could. I trusted my angel so I knew I would be ok. Sadly that time did come for me to move to the rescue and my angel mammy watched me on videos that Joan took of me to send her so she knew that I was ok. My Angel sadly passed away and I have been recovering from my heart break, No one will ever replace my angel but I am ready now to love again.