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So, why didn't this guy get into trouble?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/26/22064079-disease-suspected-in-utah-die-off-of-bald-eagles?lite

The GC keeps telling me that I broke the law because I took "wildlife" out of the "wild". So, I guess it matters what kind of life you save, huh?

Angels and Spirit Guides

Do you believe in them? I do. One night when my son was about 4 or 5, he had a high fever. When he was a baby, he'd go into febrile seizures with a high fever. He only had 2, but that's because I was diligent on getting them under control. When he had a fever, he'd spike it within a half an hour. It could have been 99 and then a half an hour later be up to 103. So, when he had a fever, I worried and watched over him. 

Anyway, this particular night I was watching over him and he looked at me, pointed to the ceiling and said, "Don't worry mommy. They're watching over me."

They were watching over him constantly.  And, they still do even now at the age of 20.

So, when I saw this on a webpage this evening, I cried because I forgot that they are always around watching and protecting. 

Angels and Spirit Guides

Last but certainly not least, ASK for protection from your Angels and Guides! That is what they are there for. Each of us is "assigned" certain angels and guides before we are born. Their "job" is to protect us, comfort and guide us, and to work with us in living our most productive life possible here on earth. But remember that they cannot interfere with our free will. We must invite their help if we want it.
You can ask for their protection on a daily basis for general purposes, or you can ask when you have an immediate need for protection. But keep in mind that although they are "assigned" to us, they are not our slaves. They help us because they want to. Respect and gratitude should always be the context in which you request (not demand) their assistance. No one likes to be bossed around. Be thankful for their presence in your life, and know that you are never alone.


You can read more of that here... http://www.wingsforthespirit.com/spiritual-protection-techniques.htm

My grandmother is a very superstitious person and we grew up knowing what was bad luck, how to ward off evil, etc. When we were kids and went visiting a particular aunt, we all had to wear salt bags to ward off any evil intent she may have towards us. So, I am kinda the same way...always looking for signs, how to ward off bad things, how to protect myself, etc. I learned a lot from my grandmother! Did you know that you're never to walk in one door of a house and out another? How about never give a knife as a gift? And, never give an empty pocketbook (purse or wallet for you sophisticated folks)?

Today I wore all the things I perceive as good luck! I think it helped a little bit, although I did get a letter from the House Rep Todd Rock that had me upset. More about that in the next post. I have to get dinner...yes, I'm cooking tonight. Hot dogs and french fries....

I hope my angels and spirit guides forgive me for forgetting that they were with me all this time. I'm never truly alone! 

A phone call from PGC

People are wanting to help in anyway they can, and I am grateful for this help. Sometimes, like yesterday it seems that I get bad news on top of bad news and it slams me into depression. All I did yesterday was cry and clean.

One of those pieces of bad news was that a CT vet called the GC and they called her back. Her conversation with them consisted of them telling her that there was no way Wiggles was coming back to me. They didn't care about the emotional toll on me or on Wiggles. They do not care!

They keep animals like this who can't be rehabilitated and released to help socialize other animals.

Ok...How does that make any sense? They want Wiggles to help socialize and tame other starlings?

#1. Wiggles doesn't know he's a starling. He doesn't know he's a bird. That's what happens during the bonding process of starlings.

#2. If anyone puts a disabled bird in with a whole flock of other birds, that disabled bird gets picked on and pushed out of the flock one way or another. It's the flock mentality where a disabled or ill bird will slow down the flock and they'll be in danger of being killed by a predator.

#3. They want to socialize other non native presumably releasable birds, why?

#4. And lastly, just a few weeks ago they said Wiggles was recovering and would be released. 

I don't believe any of their bullshit!

They won't give him back to me because they don't want other people to just start taking birds from the outdoors, the "wild" as they say. If they make starling legal, like every other state in the union (except for 3 others) then they won't have this issue. Where do they think most of our pets came from at one time or another? They weren't always in pet stores!! You can't own a ferret in DC because they consider that a wild animals. Did you know this? How many people own ferrets? A lot of people!! How about hedgehogs? Parrots? I have a wild caught Amazon in my home. Yep! Wild caught!

Starlings can mimic any sound they hear. Just like parrots can. Starlings can talk and they can talk in context. Just like parrots can. Does that sound like a "wild" animal to you? Do a search for videos on talking starlings. You'll be amazed at their little voices!

How is saving the life of a precious baby wrong and killing an animal just because you can right? Someone, please tell me!

Afraid to be alone

So, since the 2 GC officers and the cop picked my locked front door, searched my home, shoved Wiggles into a cardboard box, scared my parrots and dogs, and most importantly scared my autistic son I am scared to be alone.

I hate this house, I hate this area, I want to go far far away and never come back.

Sisco has especially been affected by all this. She's plucking like never before, and I mean at least a feather a day! Her tail only has 2 really long feathers left in it.

My anxieties are sky high. When I have to leave the house, I am so scared that I'll come home and find the GC officer or a cop in my driveway. It's not rational, I have no reason for them to be here, but that's fear for you... they're usually not rational.

My once front door used to be open so I could see the robins, cardinals, and finches coming to my feeders. Now it's shut and locked tight. I no longer sit on my porch swing, my little piece of heaven on earth, nor do I play in my flowerbed or my fairy garden. Everything is all overgrown.

I have a headache today cause all I got done doing is crying and cleaning, even though it's almost been a month, it still feels like it was just a few minutes ago. F#$% cooking. Nobody is getting a dinner! 

Wiggles' video

http://youtu.be/jzoR86Zu3bM

Pictures of Wiggles who was taken by PGC and deemed a "wildbird"

Desperate and at my wits ends!!! I need help!

So, my life has taken a turn for the worse. I can't get a lawyer to help, I can't get the Senator to listen, and the GC is playing the "I'm right and you're wrong" game.

One year ago, I found a featherless, newly hatched baby bird on the floor of a friend's barn. Its eyes hadn't opened yet: it had never seen another bird. There was no way to get it back into its nest, and it was clearly doomed there on the ground, so I took it home.

I knew it was a European starling, one of those speckled iridescent black birds with the long narrow beak that are a common sight in the suburbs and anywhere else people live. They are the ones that form huge noisy flocks that roost in trees and move as a single morphing mass in the air. While they can be beneficial to agriculture by controlling insects, more often starlings are considered agricultural pests, since they also eat grain, and it is legal in Pennsylvania to poison and otherwise inhumanely cull them. I looked into state and federal law regarding the keeping of starlings as pets: because they are an invasive species (brought over from England in the 1890s), they are not covered by wildlife law. There appeared no impediment to my keeping Wiggles, as I'd come to call the baby bird.

Wiggles grew and thrived in my care, but he turned out to have a brain injury, probably suffered during his original fall from the nest. He could not balance, which made him unable to fly, or even perch like a normal bird. I made a home for him in a puppy carrier and a bed for him in a rat cube. He was a happy bird despite his handicaps.

Starlings are highly intelligent and sensitive birds, comparable to parrots in their intelligence and ability to bond with humans. Wiggles had only known me since he opened his eyes, and we are as bonded as two creatures can be. Because he is disabled, like my own son and other birds in my home, that bond was that much more special. Wiggles means the world to me.

Several weeks ago, officers from the PA Game Commission appeared at my door with a search warrant. They had found out I kept starlings and determined that to be illegal. I still do not understand their reasoning, which they have failed to clarify. Wiggles is being held at an unknown wildlife rehabber's somewhere in PA. I know he cannot be doing well. We had a bedtime routine that is not being followed: a nighttime snack, a song, the AC on and lights out, and I tuck him in to his little bed: Wiggles would peep until everything was just right. My life has been empty without him.

The word from the Game Commission was that he is scheduled to be released into the wild. This cannot happen: even if Wiggles were not disabled, he would be unable to survive in the wild because he is a human-imprinted bird: he is completely socialized. He is as domestic as any hand-raised, wing-clipped pet parrot, and as incapable of surviving in the wild. Science and ethics both say he needs to be returned to his family who loves him.

There have been cases in the past of confiscated birds being returned to their owners: a case of a quaker parrot got some publicity recently. Wiggles needs to come home.

There is a petition to save Wiggles that can be found here: https://www.change.org/petitions/pennsylvania-game-commission-free-wiggles-and-make-european-starlings-legal-to-own-in-pa

If you want to help, write to the game commission here: pgccomments@pa.gov

You can also let Senator Alloway and Representative Todd Rock know how you feel, as well as Governor Corbett. alloway@pasen.gov and trock@pahousegop.com