Photo by Dave Location: Sagle, ID In photo: African Grey "Cressi", Galahs "Bondi" & "Bandit" 

This morning I went to work and found an email from Greg Frewin, a client we trained two blue and gold macaws for (Merlin and Mika) wondering if Aves Internationl parrot website was mine because my photos were all over it. Guess what? Apparently my birds were all "babies" on their website that they had for sale...

Hmm... funny since they're all over a year old now and um... oh yeah, not for sale!   

The picture at the top of this post was used along with others where I may have been taking the photo and not been in it (like the play gym photos). Now I'm realizing I can't keep tabs all over the internet and I rarely find my own photos on websites like this. But thankfully you guys do and you let me know. I really appreciate it. We go to every length to have the website(s) take down our images and this entire site is actually down now due to refusing to take our images off their website.

So um, again, our birds aren't for sale and they aren't "babies for sale" either, or from breeders... our breeders we use don't advertise on the internet so you won't ever be seeing them in this light...

Article by Jamieleigh Womach. She has been working with parrots and toucans since the age of 17. She isn’t homeless but is home less than she prefers to be. She travels the world with her husband, daughter, and a flockful of parrots whom she shares the stage with.