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Incredible journey of refugee parrots

parrot.jpgAn article one the BBC South Asia site reported that teenage girl fleeing war-ravaged Sri Lanka for a refugee camp in India refused to leave her two parrots. She chose to leave everything behind and take a box containing the parrots (according to other reports) to make the 18-mile journey in a small fishing vessel with her family and other refugees. Upon arriving at the camp, the police, who were registering new arrivals, registered the parrots as "accompanying warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates." If only the shelters that had been receiving people escaping from Hurricane Katrina had been so accomodating to people's companion animals.
Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 at 05:02PM by Registered CommenterJoyatri in , | Comments1 Comment

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What a great story! Like in Katrina, the U.S. and South African governments are not allowing their citizens leaving Lebanon to take their beloved pets.
July 22, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterVeganDoc

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