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Located in Flint Michigan

Unwanted, Unloved, Abused?

How would you feel if someone had no patience for you and gave up on you? Only to give you food and water to sustain your life. Is that really living?

Not here at Borrowed Rainbow Aviary. A bird will find a new life with us here at the end of the Rainbow. As I tell people we do not sell birds that are given to us. So what do we do with them? First we make sure the birds are healthy, then we will try to get them a mate. If it is not possible to mate the bird, then the bird is either put into a society cage with other birds, or they will have a cage and toys of its own alone. Sometimes a bird is so special they come into our house and are a pet.

Now you may wonder how can a bird be abused? Read the stories below about some of our abused and unwanted birds.

A male Sun Conure, scared of women, and hands. Will only go to my husband and you must have a towel wrapped around your hand, otherwise the bird will go nuts and will bite. From his behavior he was slapped by a woman for at least 4 years before we got him. We are unable to breed him because of his aggressive behavior toward all other birds including his own breed.

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A Senegal Parrot, lived in a basement for 4 years, with no daylight, or sunlight. His cage had grass growing in it from the seeds that had fallen to the floor of the cage. The cage he was living in was so messy from his waste that when we got him we threw the cage away. I have no idea when his cage had been cleaned last before we got him. His behavior after we rescued him was depressing. He would sit on top of his new cage staring at the wall. I never heard him sing or squawk. He was not friendly toward anyone. His behavior did change when we bought a Gray Cheeked Parakeet. He found a companion in her, and the love that he needed she gave him. A love that birds give or feel is not always a sexual love, but a caring of preening each others feathers, and feeding each other. Today this Senegal Parrot is still with the Parakeet, and always will be. Neither of these birds will ever be sold or separated to be with their own breed. A unusual bonding has occurred between them, and that is a bond I would never break up.

We were slapped by our owners because we like to bite, the more we are slapped the more we will bite. You get what you give us. We are now with a new loving family and we did bite them a few times, but they never slapped us. Now we love our new family and they love us, that was all we ever asked for just a little TLC.

My owner didn't love me anymore. He didn't abuse me, but he never took me out to play anymore, then one day he forgot to feed and water me. I went many days without eating. Then one day he dropped me off at Borrowed Rainbow and he never looked back at me as he walked out the door. I was very angry and depressed, Sapphyre tired to be my friend, but I showed her how fast I could give her stitches in her face. But she never got mad at me, she gave me treats and new toys, then one day I let her pet my head, and I didn't bite her. I felt that I could trust her so I showed her that there was still some love left in me. Today she takes me out to play, and I can sit on her shoulder, she even lets me walk around the house. I heard when the weather gets warmer she is going to take me out for a car ride to the store. I am never leaving here this is my home and where I want to be.

We didn't do anything bad, but our loving owner became sick, her family took her to the hospital, but she never came back home to us. We really miss her. Our owner's family didn't even know we lived there in the house. When we were found all we were given to eat was sunflower seeds and some peanuts. We got skinny and we really didn't feel very good. We were keep in separate cages all we could do was yell at each other, we both needed our heads preened but we couldn't reach each other. But one day Sapphyre came to our home and told us we were going to go live at Borrowed Rainbow. When we came to our new home she gave us so many different kinds of food, plus she even lets us live together in the same cage. Now we have so many toys, and we get fresh fruit, veggies and a Zupreem diet. Look at us now! we don't look skinny anymore. We still miss our owner, and we don't know what happen to her, we only hope the cat didn't get her. But we know we are happy where we are at now. When Sapphyre comes to feed us we love to argue with her, she laughs back at us! We all know how that game goes. After all we are an Amazon and proud of it!