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In 2004 Wings of Hope took in total of 190 animals. These ranged from Finches and Macaws, with everything in between... to rabbits and ferrets. At the end of the year, we had successfully adopted out 172 of those animals that came in. Of that original 190, 13 remained in Foster Care into the new year (8 have since been adopted as well). Due to unforeseen circumstances of the adopting owner, 2 birds were returned to Wings of Hope, and were able to be re-adopted into loving, longtime homes. Please email us at stories@wingsofhope-nj.com. If you would like information about helping out, please call us at (732)833-7825.  Hi everyone, Just to let you know that Ali is doing well, he is eating the cracked corn and greens. Gave him a bath the other day, he wasn't too sure if he liked it. --- Bette  Lumpy eats everything and it is great to have a bird that likes veggies. When I give the tortoises their greens, I put some in the cage for Lumpy. --- Bette  Bijou is very slowly coming around; the trust issue is his major hang up. I am slowly figuring out what set him off, he has his psycho moments. He is a very smart bird and learns thing very quickly with clicker training. He can now catch a ball (it is a dog holy ball). Bijou is quite a taker now, I didn't know it is because his cage is between the CAG and the BF Amazon and they are very good talkers. --- Bette   Well what can I say? Timi continues to be an absolute sweetheart and a JOY to me every day. It's 6 months (next week) that she's been a part of my home. Couldn't ask for a better bird pal. :-) Timi knows a couple of new tricks... she will ring a bell on one of her toys on demand. Just need to say "Ring your bell Timi!" and she slides over to it and gives it a toss. She has also started conversing back and forth with Pippin, the eclectus. In the mornings I hear this while I'm getting dressed for work: Pippin: "gimme a kiss!" Timi: makes big smooch sound Pippin: "Awwwww, thank you!" Timi: "Hiya Pippin!" Pippin: "hello Oscar! Hello Timi!" Timi: "Hello Everybody!" Then they start their morning jungle calls, and yelling for breakfast. LOL I can't even remember what life was like before these two goofballs came into mine.... Timi still looks good, great feather, healthy, and (I'm thrilled to announce!) has started eating the cooked birdy foods they get every evening! Finally. She's putting quite a dent into the cooked food bowl now, and I'm glad for that. She's also starting to enjoy her morning bowl of fresh sliced fruits mixed w/ a little crunchy granola cereal and eating half of that as well. She's completely off the fig newtons and those orange-y colored peanut butter crackers she was used to getting for snacks. Now she gets veggies, a no-salt tortilla chip or pretzel stick, veggie crackers, or once in a while teeny pieces of cooked meat or boiled egg. ---MaryAnne   Adopted by MaryAnne and her family in Sept '04. Timi turned 13 yrs old on Jan. 8th, 2005 Hello Jannet! Everything is going great! I've changed Claudia's name to Clara and she's already responding to it. Clara is an absolute pleasure. I can't spoil her enough. I always make sure she has a vast variety to choose from. Her favorite treats are the avi-cakes, romaine lettuce, millet and treat sticks. We purchased a jungle gym from Leesa that we utilize everyday. Clara has morning coffee and cereal with me everyday while we watch the morning news. She's always ready to come out. She actually calls to me when she wants to visit. Clara loves to chat even though she doesn't say anything specific I know what she's up to. The cage I purchased for her turned out to be a cockatiel mansion. She has more than enough space to spread out. She doesn't seem interested in toys or her swing yet. I'm sure she's still getting used to her new environment. She loves to eat and hang out. My shoulder seems to be a great place to be aside from the gym. We're still waiting on her doctor's appointment. We wait a month for a check-up. She's in great health and very active. I'm sure things will check out great. I'll write you again and keep you posted. THANK YOU SO MUCH! She's a wonderful addition to my life. A special thanks to Leesa for bringing us together. I have to go put her to bed now she seems sleepy. Thanks again, Dana & Clara S.  
Hello, Goldie is doing just great. She just loves her new flight and loves taking a bath in her large water dish. She likes to take a bath all by herself and if anyone else is around, she will "swawk" at them until they go away. LOL! She is very pretty and a very wonderful bird to have, we love her dearly. Thanks so much! --- Sue  Kedim seems to be doing very well, and I have somehow acquired quite a flock now (three more parakeets, all female too, rescued at various ages from other owners). It's really a hoot to see them make the rounds of my apartment ceiling. I think your adoption process and subsequent followup is really fantastic. I'm really grateful to Wings of Hope for taking care of Kedim until I could find her and take her home! --- Donna Dear Jannet, Corkey is doing GREAT. He is spoiled rotten. He "rules the roost" here. He is so loving and easy to spoil. He lays is my arms like a baby. We are truly happy and totally satisfied with Corkey. He's on my shoulder right now. (I think he's looking to see if my spelling is right.) I have not had any real problems with him. I did find that if he rode in a box, with air holes of course, he doesn't get carsick. I really think that it was the motion around him that made him sick. I am very satisfied with your adoption process. It was quick, but I knew just from the letters that this adoption service was truly in business for the bird, not to make a killing. I have referred a few people to your service, but I also told them that this is a lifetime commitment, not a short-term thing. I have also told them to do careful research, before even thinking about a large bird. I would never want to be responsible for a bird having a bad life. Thank you so much for everything that you did for me. This was truly a dream come true for me. I'll never be able to thank you enough. Here is a picture with Bette and Zoe just before Thanksgiving. She is adjusting very well to the new environment. She spends her days downstairs with the dog and her evenings either with us in the family room or with Katie in her room where she has another cage and her playpen. This adoption has gone so well we are considering a second bird, but we did not want to appear greedy. This experience has been so wonderful we wanted to repeat it. Rob, Bette, Abby, Katie, and Zoe K.   top of their mirror swing Hello! I just wanted to say that I just adore Mo and Curly the Crested Society Finches that my husband and I adopted from Wings of Hope. I never knew that male Society Finches sang and danced so much. They are such a joy to have and watch and if I would have known that they were so neat we would have gotten some much sooner! They are always preening each other and singing to each other and are just so cute! They are a wonderful addition to our family. Thank you so much! --- Sue Angel is doing wonderfully. She really is the sweetest little girl, but she eats a lot, lol! She goes from cage to cage when the birds are all out and eats everyone's food. She goes into the kitchen and opens all the cabinet doors. She doesn't take anything out, she just opens the doors and when you catch her she runs away. She's really hilarious! Her feathers have come in so nicely. She's very pink and she's stopped plucking. She's very cuddly and kissy. Everyone is crazy about her. Thanks for your inquiry. I hope all is well with all of you. Take care. Donna & Matt B.   how beautifully E.. A.. T.. I ..N ..G she "feathered up" Hi Jo! The lovebird is doing great! We are currently calling him/her a her and have named her Malika, which means 'Queen' in Kiswahili (the official language of Tanzania where black-masks originate from according to our googling), because she seems to think she is the new ruler of all that she sees, hehe. She is tolerating 'petting' better than I would have expected at this point, even letting me give her scritches though she hasn't asked for them. She's coming along with hand taming (steps up readily from the floor, but not from her cage or another hand/finger yet). She is being stubborn about fruits and veggies, but has started nibbling tentatively at the occasional carrot since they blend into her pellets so well. Our vet said she's in great health. We're still quarantining her so she hasn't met our other birds yet, but our medium-sized parrots have demonstrated aggression towards smaller birds in the past so I don't expect she'll ever do more than see them from a safe distance anyway. I was THRILLED with the adoption process! Wings of Hope is the third rescue we've adopted a bird through and the first that I would adopt from again. I was thrilled to actually be screened for once even though others have said that they screen. You have demonstrated that you really do care about the birds and are trying to make sure they find homes that will be good matches so they don't just end up back in a shelter. All the volunteers I have talked to via e-mail, phone and in person have been very friendly, helpful, and eager to answer questions. If my husband and I do decide we would like to foster parrots or volunteer in some other capacity, Wings of Hope is where we will apply! Thank you!!!! ---- Kat   Yes, everything is great with Petey. He's the greatest bird ever!! :) Very adaptable to his environment and always exploring new toys to play with and stuff. He's very good with accepting new things into his cage and extremely friendly to anyone who comes over the house. Loves the attention and has also been open to some new foods we've introduced him to lately. All good of course! :) Things are going just fine. We're leaving for vacation on Friday for two weeks and our best friends, who are avid bird lovers, will be watching him and his brother Chole (formerly Chloe) whom we also adopted from WOH. They've watched them before when we've gone away for a week and when we got back, it was like we never left--they were so comfortable with them! I'm happy thery're able to watch them again for this long vacation. I will miss them both terribly, for this is the longest we've ever left them! I know, however, that they are in excellent hands. They do have WOH's number to call as well if they have any questions or whatnot. Thanks again for checking up. We are one big happy family for sure! Take care, Patty and Tom D. Hi Jo, Pooz is doing very well in our home. He enjoys the variety of foods, comes out of his cage easier, and is becoming more and more playful. He is as loud as ever! He interacts well with the other birds and the members of my household. He even sleeps under the blankets with my kids! The fostering and adoption process through WOH was very smooth. The communication with Jannet was thorough and the paperwork was managed with great ease. Funny gift Jannet has about knowing who won't let their fosters leave. I have and will continue to recommend WOH to my friends. Working with the many personalities can be challenging, but I believe the WOH board manages well. --- Pam   Hello Everyone! Sugar and Spice (aka Song and Tune) are doing great! Spice loves to sing and I love to hear him sing his pretty songs. They are both such beautifully colored canaries, we were very lucky to find them. They seem to like their new flight that we got them. ;-) Thanks so much! --- Sue  I just want to thank you very much for everything! Everything went wonderful! Our "Pretty Girl" is doing absolutely wonderful!!! I bought her a brand new big cage yesterday which you can see in one of the photos and bought her a play hut and toys. She is SWEET! She likes to bite my rings and earrings! She wants to snuggle with my other bird but it doesn't want to get too close yet though they like to be near each other. My other bird has its own cage. I am sending you these photos so you can see how loved Pretty Girl is and that she is well taken care of! :-) I'm so happy that I got to find her!!! Thanks again for everything!!! Pretty Girl completes our family! :-) Hey Jannet: Mario the Cockatiel is doing great, he is hand tame now and has a new best friend Yoshe! They love their out of cage time every day on their balsa wood playgym! They are both eating great!! Pictures to follow!! (I'm real bad getting film developed but I will do my best). Thanks Again, Debbie HI!!!!! Thank you so much for taking care of our baby until we could find her!! As I type this she is busily eating away!! She is such a sweetheart! We have been letting her get comfortable with her new cage and surroundings. She enjoys talking to her new parakeet friends. She comes over to the side of the cage, and is very interested in listening to us talk to her. Our whole family has fallen in love with her!! Thank you for what you do for all the birds you care for! You are truly special! As soon as I get my digital camera figured out, you will get pictures! Oh, we have taken to calling her Lily...we thought that was a more feminine name than spaz!! Thanks again, Susan M. Hi Jannet, I just wanted to send you a quick thank you for our birds and let you know how things are going. They are doing just fine. They are very verbal (especially Spice), EXCEPT WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM. Then they clam up. We laugh and laugh at them. They are so into each other they really don't want to have anything to do with us, but we love to hear their chatter. We had a mirror in the cage we placed them in, and they think there is competition (you know like boy friend or girl friend) in with them. Sometimes there is a little lovers spat, but it doesn't seem to bother them long. I told Russell when we are ready to expand our family, we will come back and get a Cockatiel but it won't be for a long time. Keep up the good work that you do, I will keep Wings of Hope in mind when I hear of someone in search of a special animal. Thank you again, Janis Hi! I think I got my digital camera figured out! So here are some pictures of Lily (adopted from you as Spaz). She is a wonderful bird. She is getting very playful with her toys. She loves her bath and talking to the parakeets. She goes nuts when she hears whistling, and I wouldn't be surprised if she whistles soon herself! Thanks for taking care of her until we found her! --- Susan |