Mickaboo in Crisis: What a Foster’s Email Tells Us About Mickaboo’s Internal Breakdown
In a recent email, a longtime Mickaboo volunteer voiced deep frustration that papilloma-positive birds needing placement are not being discussed on Discuss, Mickaboo’s discussion list, and that she is repeatedly asked to take them despite having done so for twenty years. The foster wrote that she had to turn down two of these birds recently […]
A Month of Charges from Vet Clinic For the Birds (and a note about deslorelin implants)
Summary: We reviewed two June 2025 invoices from For the Birds (FTB), which together document over $50,000 in charges to Mickaboo. These invoices show a consistent pattern of high-cost, long-term care concentrated among the same group of birds—many of whom have been in boarding or medical care for months or years. Of the 47 birds […]