A big part of the work we do is outreach. People don’t know that birds are in shelters needing homes, people don’t know that domestic pigeons and doves can’t live wild and need homes, people don’t know what amazing pets these birds are… and so this Saturday a whole bunch of us, volunteers and birds, staffed our booth at the Bay Area Pet Expo in San Jose. Thousands of pet lovers attend this huge, free and fun event and we introduced pigeons to as many as we could. We answered lots of questions, debunked lots of myths and made a lot of new friends for these amazing but often-mistreated birds. Palomacy- it’s pigeon diplomacy!
Thank you to our amazing volunteers!
Left to right: Faye & Shimmy, Elton & Sparkle, Jill & Aurora, Tyler & Opal, Ashish & Valiant, Liese & Pat, Adina & Gemini, Clare, Lisa.
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- Thousands of pet lovers attend
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- Packed up and on our way
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- Morning volunteers Elton, Liese, Clare & Lisa
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- Liese soothing nervous Dallas
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- Lisa with Claudette
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- Clare and Dupree
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- Dylan laid her first egg the night before
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- Making lots of new friends
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- Liese and Pat have a thing
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- Liese has a gift for relaxing pigeons
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- Snack time- safflower and hemp seed treats
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- Faye and Amelio made a special connection
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- This is Palomacy- pigeon diplomacy!
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- We were all busy all day
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- Faye and Amelio creating life-long pigeon friends
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- Elton and Sparkle
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- Adina brought two of her four pet pigeons- Gemini…
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- … and Bubba
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- Janet fell in love with Pat
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- Wow! We had a great, big wonderful team of volunteers!
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- Cheryl and Opal
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- Jill with Amelio & Aurora
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- Look at Aurora’s happy forehead feathers!
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- Liana stopped traffic to rescue this young Homing pigeon
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- … and brought her to us to be assessed
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- Tyler taking photos while Opal oversees
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- Opal playing coy
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- Jill and Adina- each brought to us by a self-rescuer
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- Nikhill and Sherry love pigeons
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- We met Mike and Bixby of Where’s Bixby!
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- Bixby and Mike have pedaled 8K miles so far…
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- …promoting the importance of pet adoption from shelters and rescues
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- Diana brought Hedwig by for a consult
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- …He’s newly married to their self-rescuer and very full of himself!
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- Ashish and Valiant steal a quiet moment
