Help Boo and Wasabi Enjoy Safe Outdoor Walks

Hello! I am a certified veterinary technician with a special interest in birds. For the past several years, I have been unable to work due to numerous health issues (i.e., traumatic brain injury, 2 broken feet for over a year, and autoimmune diseases that won't turn off following the COVID vaccines--most prominently lupus and behçet's disease). I volunteer helping injured wildlife as much as I am able. I am also autistic and my peach-faced lovebird, Wasabi, is my support animal.

About a month ago, I started fostering-to-adopt an 8 year old pacific parrotlet named Booberry. I was told he was mostly kept by his previous owner as decoration. He came to me scared of hands, on a seed diet, and with really significant feather destruction--to the point that he cannot fly because he's damaged his flight feathers too much.

Since his arrival, he has blossomed! I am

not seeing any further signs of feather destructive behavior, and he the feathers on his belly are returning. He is trying new foods and loves to eat some Bird Street Bistro varieties. He sings happily all day long and loves his numerous bell toys.

Despite him not being hand tame, I started taking him outside in a carrier to just sit with me and we've graduated to doing small walks. I think he loves going outside more than anything else. Despite being afraid of hands, when I show him the outside carrier, he either enters it himself or comes forward and allows me to pick him up; and he hops out of it himself when we're all done.

Being able to give Boo the life he has deserved all along has given me much needed purpose and fulfillment. Some days I'm feeling so poorly that I wouldn't otherwise get outside, but I do to take each bird outside--which benefits me greatly, too!

Unfortunately, the one useable carrier we have to go outside on walks, etc., is only good for one bird and gets too hot in warmer weather. The single bird pak-o-bird that I have is over 15 years old, beyond repair, and no longer safe for use.

I am hoping to be able to get a new celltei double pak-o-bird with a divider that will allow both birds to be able to go out with me safely for walks and so forth at the same time.

As many know, pak-o-birds are incredibly well made and durable. They are the only carriers that I have been able to find that have a separation to allow for two birds to be in one carrier together. Unfortunately, I am unable to afford one on my own. And, in July I will officially adopt Boo and have to pay his adoption fee.

A friend suggested that I do a GoFundMe so that others could help me come up with the funds to buy such a pak-o-bird. The cost of the pak-o-bird itself is $501 and shipping is $38.77 making the total needed $539.77.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read this and for your consideration regarding giving to help us.

We greatly appreciate you.