Exotic birds abandoned, left to die in Grandview home rescued

Source: Fox 4 Kansas City(not Fox news)

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — A Pleasant Valley, Mo., house in the 6800 block of Sobbie Road had literally been left to the birds. When Carol Fisher entered the home her ex-husband used to live in, she discovered six parrots roaming the back of the home with little food, no water and no heat.
“It was a deplorable mess as far as I’m concerned,” she said. “I think a bird should be treated like a dog or cat.”
The Excelsior Springs woman believes the two cockatoos and four macaws had literally been eating the walls since October to survive. That’s when her divorce was granted, but the judge told her she had to wait 120 days before she could enter the home her husband had been living for 11 years. Fisher says the home looked like an episode of “Hoarders” and was surprised the birds were still alive.
Dr. Julie Burge and two volunteers with Burges Bird Services rescued the birds and brought five of them to Burges Bird Rescue clinic in Grandview, Mo.

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