We work to make sure that our feathered friends in the wild have safe places to live and raise their young. Now, we can also help pet birds who have lost their homes. I am asking you to help a bird rescue improve their ability to help more birds. There is no money involved to vote; all it takes is a computer click or text to add your vote.

Here is some background and the information on how you can personally help.

Our avian vet, Dr. Julie Burge, has a bird rescue that is terribly underfunded. It mainly runs on love, a donation jar at the counter, and money from bird related items that she sells on E-Bay. We save our feathers for her. She packages them and sells them to hobbyists on E-Bay. Right now, she is involved in a Pepsi challenge to win $25,000 to expand the Burge Bird Rescue.

This woman is a wonderful doctor. In addition to traditional office calls, she provides emergency services, and in-home services. During disasters, she is called on to leave her practice in the capable hands of her bird nurse, and go to help. She helped in the Katrina disaster and most recently after the tornado in Joplin, Mo. Her passion is her bird rescue.

We adopted one of our beloved birds through her bird rescue. Bella Pickles was a little biter lovebird that nobody wanted. Dr. Julie gave her a chance. She rescues birds that people give up, through death, adverse economic situations, or that they no longer want. Dr. Julie finds them �forever homes.� Birds are given medical care and kept until they have homes.

I would love to help her Burge Bird Rescue win this money. I'm voting every day, but I think that I can do more! I can ask you to help.

If you want to help improve facilities for this deserving bird rescue, please use this link to vote in this Pepsi challenge. You may vote once a day. There is no money involved in voting. Pepsi rules state that only votes from inside the United States will be counted.

Help Burge Bird Rescue-Give us a Vote-Click Here!

You may also text a vote in. This gives you an extra vote. Send the text to PEPSI (73774) This is the text message-107464.

Thanks for your time; I'll let you know how it comes out!

Connie

If you want to learn more about the Burge Bird Rescue, use this link:

Burge Bird Rescue Homepage

Got my Vote today! Didn't have to set up an account either, just logged in through Facebook. That was easy!

Thanks to all of the folks from this forum who are voting for Burge Bird Rescue on the Pepsi Challenge. You are making a difference! The rankings have gone from 10 to 7! Keep up the good work. It is appreciated!

Have you checked the rankings lately? Just use the voting link and look at the top of the page near the name.

Have you voted today? When you do, be sure to look at the rankings. Only the top 15 win the money for their projects!

Thank you for all of your help!

Pulled up the list after voting today and Burge Bird Rescue is up to #6.

Fantastic!

Jane, they are still at number 6! WoooHooo! Did you see my little cutie on the Burge Bird Rescue site? She's under Recently Adopted.
Bella Pickles, our little watermelon pickle green lovebird, is the first on the page. Doesn't she look cute on her rope perch?

Connie, they must have changed the photos on the website. There is an absolute cutie, but looks like it's sitting on something else. Is that your "Pickles?"

Pickles is green and red, sitting on a rope perch by her yellow mirror. She is a bit of tiny magic! You have to scroll down to the Recently Adopted to see her. She almost looks like she's smiling.