The Business Plan

Tom Dick & Harry the bird breeders, become friends after networking on internet chat rooms discussing their hobby. They have a common interest which is breeding birds for sale in the pet market. Together, they notice on the chat room boards how so many people are needing to re-home these same pets they themselves are selling, after just a few years. Some of these unwanted pets needing homes are worth over £1000 a piece. So sell the bird in the first instance for £1000 and then later down the road scoop them back up or along the way scoop up similar ones with the same sad stories.

The Eureka! moment

So… Tom, Dick & Harry decide to set up an internet chat room themselves and call it a ‘rescue’ forum where pet owners can give their birds to the rescue to be re-homed, and where bird lovers can network to take these rescue birds in as a part of their family.

It’s like Manna from heaven!

Tom Dick & Harry cannot believe their luck because there are no laws in place whatsoever to prevent them setting their business up! They do not need to register with any government bodies to be accountable to, they can also project the image of a charity by calling themselves a rescue, and have bird lovers duped into giving their money over to what they believe is a good cause, with no accountability to any charity commission. It’s a licence to print money and have gifts given just like at Christmas! They can then sell on the long term care of the birds that have been handed over to the rescue to a ‘foster family’ under the guise of a ‘donation’, while all along keeping ownership of this valuable ‘asset’ in their name.

Could it get any better?

Later, if the ‘foster’ family subsequently then offends either Tom Dick or Harry in any way they have the right to seize their ‘property’ back because ownership is in their name.

The business just gets better and better!

It seems fail safe.

If one of the foster families offends Tom Dick or Harry and they refuse to give the new addition to their family back (who they have paid their donation fee for the privilege of looking after), or they have taken the bird in on an emergency care basis because no foster family was available at that moment in time to pay the donation fee, then Tom Dick & Harry use threats of violence and all types of intimidation to regain possession of their ‘asset’ with no regard for the unfortunate creature’s welfare.

Last resort is using the law to regain their possession because they believe the law to be on their side due to the fact their name is written on a piece of paper in ink.

A dream come true for Tom Dick & Harry. No laws in place to govern them and their actions, but laws in place to protect them from having their ‘asset’ seized by a caring human who sees this asset as not an asset at all but a poor innocent, voiceless creature whose welfare needs protecting from just these types of unscrupulous people.

When a foster family decides to defend the welfare of the bird that has been placed in their care and refuse to hand the bird back because of its welfare and long term well being, the full force of the threats and intimidation is unleashed. When this does not work Tom Dick & Harry along with their co-workers then embark upon a campaign of spreading lies to blacken the foster families name in the eyes of those who are watching.

All action must be taken to defend the business interests of Tom Dick & Harry, and nobody can be seen to break their rules or save any of the birds from their clutches for the sake of their long term wellbeing because this is their business and these are their assets.

The internet forum is the hub where the day to day running of Tom Dick & Harry’s business is played out.

On one side you have the workers who work for the business on a voluntary basis, moving the ‘assets’ around at their own expense, and finding homes for them.

On the other side you have the bird lovers wanting to give homes to the ‘assets’ because they care deeply and see they are in need of homes.

Then you have the pet owners who are drawn to the hub because of the image it portrays who then hand their bird over to the business where it then becomes an asset. The two sides then work on behalf of Tom Dick & Harry, driving around and delivering the assets for free, and then the fosterers paying for the privilege of looking after the asset.

The onlookers see the good work being done by the two sides so donate their money into the business, while Tom Dick & Harry sit back as the C.E.O’s ordering the proceedings along between the two sides whilst filling bank accounts in the process.

The business accumulates its assets by taking into its possession unwanted pets and rescue birds, some of these worth over £1000 each. So the workers do the work for free, and the foster family takes care of the asset, whilst all along the asset is the possession of Tom Dick & Harry.
For example, 100 birds x £1000 = Assets worth £100,000 for the business that is run by Tom Dick & Harry.

A business that accumulates wealth at no cost or outlay by the C.E.O’s and has no governing bodies watching its day to day running.

During the life of the business maybe use some of these assets as money making machines by forcing them to produce more assets, or when the opportunity arises sell them on and cash in on the asset. (Further reading: Something fishy)

You cannot lose; it’s a fail safe business for Tom Dick & Harry so no wonder they will go to such lengths to protect it.

There are no laws in place to govern them so the parrot rescue industry at this moment in time is like the wild wild west with cowboys like Tom Dick & Harry having a free roam to do what they like at the expense of innocent defenceless birds.

The Government always has a sheriff though, who is ready to serve justice and uphold law and order when required.

I wonder whether the Sheriff is now watching the cowboys Tom Dick & Harry and their money making scheme with its collected assets that are currently sitting in somebody’s home right now?