by Pajarita » Sun Aug 27, 2017 10:17 am
This happens all the time. When I had the rescue, I took in a quaker that had been put for sale at a garage sale - the lady who brought it to me saw it and, loving animals, could not just leave it there so she bought it. An avian vet, close friend of the president and founder of the Colorado rescue The Gabriel Foundation, once put over 400 pairs of breeding parrots and an undisclosed number of 'singles' up for auction upon her divorce [her husband and her had to split the 'assets']. A couple of friends of mine sent somebody and got a macaw and a cockatoo from that auction - the cockatoo stayed at a rescue but the macaw, which was originally intended for my friend, was sent to Foster Parrots so he could live with other macaws as he was way too traumatized to be anybody's pet.
I said it before and I'll say it again: as long as companion animals are considered objects and property under the law, they will continue to suffer! And you can thank the veterinarians for the fact that new laws have not been passed.