Save Domestic Pigeons and Doves From Euthanasia

Your generosity and support is what empowers MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue to help birds that, unwanted, injured, ill and/or timed out in shelters, would otherwise be killed. Here's the story of just one little bird that YOU helped to rescue. Her name is Feathers. Feathers was introduced to MickaCoo this way: Dear...

MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue has had both a very challenging and very promising year. We are getting ever more support and leadership from volunteers and seeing more outreach and placement efforts from Bay Area shelters. In 2012,  MickaCoo’s foster volunteers saved more than 200 lives by caring for and...

Thanks to your support, MickaCoo is able to help pigeons and doves in all kinds of ways. We save birds' lives by taking in the sick, injured and/or timed out from shelters like like Elliot & Buster. Elliot, a sick baby king pigeon found in a parking lot with his friend Buster, was getting worse rather than better...

Vote for MickaCoo's Gypsy & Milkshake Mike! When baby homing pigeon Gypsy was facing euthanasia at an animal shelter, MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue saved her. She needed supportive and foster care to recover and she has blossomed into a beautiful married pigeon lady. Her mate, a huge king pigeon named Milkshake Mike...

Wednesday June 13th is Pigeon Appreciation Day! You are already making a life-saving difference for birds that, without your support, would be routinely killed in shelters. Your support means birds like little Opal, so sick and brave and doomed at a shelter can be cared for and restored to health and adopted into wonderful...

MickaCoo's motto could be "Doing the Impossible Everyday!" When I first learned back in 2007 that domestic pigeons were routinely being killed in Bay Area animal shelters for lack of a home, I was told that finding adopters for them would be impossible. In 2011, MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue placed 333 birds that would...

When injured king pigeons like Percy, Pearl and Zella arrive in animal shelters, they are usually killed. While their wounds are treatable, shelter adoption rates even for healthy pigeons are very low and so injured pigeons are routinely killed unless a rescue like MickaCoo is available to provide avian vet care, foster...

We did it! Thank you SO much!  With the generous help of 51 donors, MickaCoo Pigeon & Dove Rescue has met the challenge of raising $4K and secured a permanent place within the GlobalGiving* online community! With this importatn step, we have successfully opened an entirely new channel through which to...