Upon Reflection

"Isn’t it too late to shut the stable door once the horse has bolted?"

Below is a list of recommendations of changes set out by Vikky for UKPR.

These changes have all been brought into play in the life of UK Parrot Rescue because of the points this blog has raised over the last two weeks.

So, for all those people who have thrown mud at this blog during this time, look at what it has achieved? Or were these changes going to happen anyway?

UKPR are now cleaning up their act if it is not too late for them, and hopefully made others take note of what is happening in this lawless ungoverned world for the sake of the poor birds whose lives are at stake, and whose rights need to be defended by the people who love and care about them like us.

Every point this blog has raised over the last few weeks has now been addressed bar one, and that is Mylo & JJ, the catalysts of it all.

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Vikky
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Post: #1Steps forward for UKPR during 2009

At UK Parrot Rescue,we are always looking at how we can improve the way we do things,which is why we welcome suggestions and/or constructive criticisms,we are not just here to serve the birds,but we are also here to serve the general public whom chose to use us when they can no longer care for the birds they hand into our care,but also to provide a place where the fosterers of those birds,have a support system to help them with the lifelong commitment they have made to take care of these birds,the perception that the public have on any organisation is vitally important,and as the last couple of weeks has proved,as we are "not governed " by any organisation,this can leave us open to those who doubt us,we have learnt a lot from this as a an organisation,and have taken steps to rectify the "gaps" in peoples minds,please note the changes that will take place during 2009

form a committee/ and have a constitution
register with the charities commission
register with the NCVO
register with HMRC charities to gain gift aid
set a limit on ec places/stick with the e/c's we have
find reputable rescues to take on too's and macaws
make public our accounts every 6 months

im sure you will agree that this can only be seen as positive steps forward for us,and will only serve to gain us more respect as an organisation,we also feel that this will be a huge benefit to us,of course as these changes take place,we will make an announcment informing you of each step achieved.......

regards UKPR team

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If people upon reflection, can take a step back and realise the error of their ways then this can only be a good thing. This blog never set out with the intention to hurt or destroy anyone including UKPR. It was set up with the clear intention of defending Mylo & JJ’s rights as rescue birds, and exposing the bad practices of UKPR who had abused those rights and trampled them underfoot. As this went further the struggle for what was right for Mylo & JJ and what it exposed with UKPR got uglier and the implications wider.

It’s just what happens in these types of situations.

People have criticised the openness of this blog, but in defence… Who before now has brought these bad practices to the surface and forced change, change not just in this one organisation but hopefully change within the parrot rescue industry? It is glaringly obvious that there needs to be new laws and regulations governing this area brought in for the sake of the birds whose welfare is at the centre of it. If as people together we fail to bring about change then we fail to defend them and their rights.

If the authors of this blog have made any mistakes along the way or offended anyone then please accept our apologies. No offence was intended, it’s just you cannot please all the people all the time, only some of the people some of the time.

To accept you have made mistakes and be willing to correct them is either a mark of humility or a mark of knowing what has been presented cannot be refuted so you have no alternative but to rectify the points in question.

Only those who have now implemented the changes for UKPR know the answer to that one.

This last situation which is the one still outstanding after the two weeks, (apart from what has not been presented yet), is where the proof behind the changes now lays.

Mylo & JJ were destined to live at Caron’s after all of the relevant UKPR home checks had been carried out.

Then the last two weeks which are chronicled on this blog unfolded, from start to finish, wherever that finish now is.

Mylo’s present welfare and future wellbeing has been protected and defended from all those who have sought to do him injustice over the last two weeks. That is why he is still sitting here, a happy little chappy with his eyes and feathers glowing, and we have worked tirelessly to have him reunited here, with his partner JJ, which is still the No.1 issue in hand.

If that Sunday morning on the ‘infamous thread’ did not happen then JJ would be here now, so who is in the wrong if you trace it all back?

As humans we are charged with looking after these creatures, and this is exactly what has been forced upon us for the sake of Mylo & JJ.

"Defending the Rights of the Defenceless."

Would you have done it?

Now is the time for Vikky to do the right thing and let JJ be released from Adele’s so that she can come and join her partner Mylo at Caron’s home where they were both destined for at the very beginning of all of this, along with their cage that was their intended home.

If not, then there is no alternative but to continue fighting for what we believe to be the right thing for these two birds, for as along, and for as hard, as we have to for the right outcome for the both of them...Anything less would mean failing Mylo.

I call on Vikky to now do the right, the humble thing, and accept the initial mistake, and rectify it by letting JJ finish her journey to be with her partner Mylo so that we can all see a happy ending to this for this pair of Macaws.

Nobody is perfect, we all make mistakes, it’s just whether or not we are humble enough to accept them when we should and then change them.

Only those personally involved in this from start to finish know the truth, and we all know that truth cannot lie.

So now is the time to rectify the situation and do the right thing.

All other UKPR issues that this blog has raised are now being changed, so please for the sake of Mylo & JJ change this last issue of contention. Their present welfare and long term wellbeing as living creatures are paramount, and they have been apart for long enough.

Psalm 16:15

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