Parrot Adoption Application

Full name

Date

Age

Children? If yes, how many/Ages

Occupation

Spouse's Occupation

Work Phone #’s

Your email

Address

Cell Phone

About Your Home

Type of Home
—Please choose an option—HouseApartmentCondo

For renters, are pets allowed?

Who will be the primary caretaker?

Parrot experience?
—Please choose an option—yesno

Details of experience, parrots owned, and are you willing to be educated by AURA comprehensive parrot care details all our adopters go through?

Is your entire household in approval of this parrot adoption?
—Please choose an option—yesno

Do you have any other pets? Please list

Does anyone in your home have allergies?

Do you or anyone else in the home smoke or vape?

Are you aware that the chemicals/nicotine are absorbed through a parrot’s skin and they ingest these chemicals while preening? The smoke can also kill them so please smoke/vape outside and thoroughly wash your hands before picking up any parrot. I agree to do both.

Are you aware of the reality of a companion parrot to develop or possess screaming, biting, feather mutilation behaviors?

Are you again willing to be educated by AURA, and with our ABA, (Applied Behavioral Analysis, Positive Reinforcement,) Behavioral Specialist to deal with these behaviors?

How many hours per day are you able to spend with a parrot?

Preferred Parrot Species to Adopt

We have the wonderful capacity to rehome all Parrots, yet we are still small and under construction, in need of local very skilled fosters, appropriate housing, and volunteers to help us feed, clean and socialize the parrots we receive, so please be patient. The most popular species are NOT commonly relinquished, although we have received them. More so, we receive parrots needing medical care and may never be a, “normal bird.” Are you willing to adopt a handicapped bird? Think about this...

Knowing this, please consider adopting a TRUE UNDERDOG Parrot? One who was given up by its owners, (for any number of reasons, good and not so much,) one who was found, injured by a predator, and one who we were able to pull from an animal shelter. We also have many pet quality Doves, Pigeons, and some non-releasble non-native birds to consider as pets as well. Please refer to our suggested Donation Fee list.

What species of Parrot are you looking to adopt?

Why?

Are you able and wanting to adopt a handicapped parrot?

Are you willing to adopt a Non-Native non-releasable/handicapped wild bird?

If so, we will give you a list of choices of our too many Underdogs needing loving homes

Safety Requirements

Are you willing to remove your home of ALL NON_STICK coated cookware?
—Please choose an option—yesno

Consider this. If not, you will NOT be allowed to adopt from AURA, or ANY other Parrot Organization as we have ALL seen beloved Companion Parrots painfully suffocate to only die within hours of inhalation of heated non-stick cookware, candles, plug in’s, diffusers, essential oils, cleaned carpets with Teflon coating, and new carpet installations... Please Google Teflon Toxicosis and how bird lungs react and die from these toxins.

Are you willing to remove these and other all other toxic products from your home that are dangerous to birds with much more highly developed respiratory systems?

Clipped wings? Most escaped parrots we receive are injured, some gravely, were not clipped but are lucky to be alive. Occasionally we receive a wild, naturalized baby that could not be released we hand feed and socialize, and clip.

Are you willing to maintain clipped wings for your companion bred, hand fed exotic parrot? If not, why?

Who is your BCAV? (Board Certified Avian Veterinarian?

Please acknowledge that all your answers are true.

Please acknowledge that you agree to our education program for all of our parrot adoptions

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