Hoarding Birds: A Felony

Dozens of birds were rescued from a possible hoarding situation in a Rancho Bernardo apartment on Wednesday morning, a San Diego Humane Society official said.

A handful of Humane Society officers spent hours removing the birds from a home on Avenida De Los Lobos near Paseo Montanoso, placing them in boxes and then carting them out to a truck to be medically evaluated, according to the Humane Society.

As of 2 p.m., more than 80 birds had been seized.

It’s unclear what types of birds were located, but many were cockatiels, a member of the cockatoo family, officials said. The animals will eventually be transported to the shelter on Gaines Street.

San Diego officers with assistance from the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team also responded to the apartment to evaluate a resident there, police said.

LATimes.  @LAWinkley 

Hoarding birds; a felony

except upon the Bering Sea,

where sailors capture them for heat

against the cold and mist and sleet.

In other places, not too cool;

birds, too, need the Golden Rule.

Hoard not, or you'll hoarded be

whether bird or timpani.

After all, a bunch of drums

is not like a vase of mums;

no one cares if flowers bloom

all around the living room.

Kinda two-faced, after all --

why can't birds be wall to wall?

Maybe such propinquity

is their pickin' cup of tea!

Is this fake news once again,

written by a hacker's pen?

Birds, I bet, are very keen

to be packed in like sardine.

Holy Hannah! I declare;

this bird story isn't fair.

 Feathered friends should sue the Times

for such libel and high crimes.

The Constitution guarantees

I can hoard both birds and bees.

What I want to know right now:

where have those drums gone, anyhow?

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