MAARS needs your help to create a new sanctuary that provides space for flight. Your support is vital for giving the birds an environment that can better meet their unique needs than the current location.
This is Apollo!
Apollo is one of more than 100 parrots who depend on MAARS for safety, care, and a permanent home.
Right now, our flock lives in a converted office building in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While we work hard to provide the best life possible, we know these birds deserve more.
They deserve sunshine. They deserve fresh air.
They deserve outdoor aviaries, natural enrichment, and the opportunity to experience the world beyond four walls.
Our goal is to create a new sanctuary space where parrots can enjoy both indoor and outdoor environments designed specifically for their physical and emotional well-being.
This is a big dream—but it's one we can achieve together.
Every share, every donation, every conversation helps bring us one step closer to a future where parrots like Apollo have the space and quality of life they deserve.
Help us build that future.
Learn more, donate, or get involved:
🌿 www.maars.org
From the Avian Welfare Coalition:
Growing numbers of parrots and other exotic birds who are in distress and require immediate shelter or emergency medical care are landing at shelters nationwide. In many cases, personnel at traditional dog-and-cat oriented shelters may be unfamiliar with the special housing, dietary, handling, and veterinary needs of these birds. AWC to the rescue! Our dedicated Avian Shelter Outreach Program www.avianwelfare.org/shelter_outreach.htm - the first and only of its' kind - offers shelters a number of FREE downloadable "How-To" guides and a webinar series on how to provide for the specialized care of parrots and other exotic birds within a shelter setting. Our resources are tailored for use by animal shelters and avian care facilities and cover a wide variety of topics - housing, feeding, medical, quarantine, enrichment, and placement.
Smoke alert, Twin Cities: your pets are breathing this too. 🐾
The air outside is in the hazardous range right now, and if it's rough on you, it's even more difficult for your pets.
Bird owners, this one's especially for you. Birds have incredibly efficient respiratory systems, which means they pull in more of what's floating in the air, smoke included. It's the same reason canaries once warned miners of danger. Keep your birds in an interior room away from windows and doors, run an air purifier if you have one, and skip anything that adds to the load: candles, aerosol sprays, and nonstick cookware fumes. Watch for tail bobbing, open-mouth breathing, wheezing, or unusual quietness, and call us right away if you see any of these.
For dogs and cats: keep walks short (bathroom breaks only until this clears), skip fetch and outdoor play, and bring outdoor cats inside. Flat-faced breeds, senior pets, and pets with heart or airway conditions need extra caution.
Stay inside, stay safe, and give your critters a little extra love today. 💙
Safety tips from the AVMA: www.avma.org/resources/pet-owners/emergencycare/wildfire-smoke-and-animals
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