[BirdCrazy]

Lisa, I commend you for your personal efforts, and I hope that you won't take my comments as personal attacks~they certainly are not meant to be. HOWEVER...please tell me how a baby that is still being hand-fed is accessible to the public~and HOW, if there is so much oversight in the store that someone would manage to not only get the bird out of the cage without being seen ---- but actually walk out the front door with it? I have been to my local store within the last 6 months. Although the birds are kept in a separate room, the door is open to the public, and there is nothing to prohibit the birds from being accessed by anyone that enters - including small children who like to poke their fingers through the cages - which is exactly what was happening when I made my visit. There was also no employee monitoring this bird "room". You understand these birds are not behind glass or in any way protected by the dangers of being accessible by the public? Do you understand that there IS a danger? Not only of being stolen by inexperienced people, but of being hurt by children, or being exposed to the various germs, bacteria and disease that people carry with them. So, I applaud Petco for hiring someone as caring as you are - but they still have a LONG way to go.