{"id":640001,"date":"2010-01-22T15:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877015d6f970c"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:14:55","slug":"malnourished-macaws-rescued-from-condemned-colorado-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640001","title":{"rendered":"Malnourished macaws rescued from condemned Colorado home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Macaw\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287701578a970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287701578a970c-600wi\" style=\"width: 600px;\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of exotic birds are being nursed back to health in Colorado after animal control officers found them malnourished in a condemned house without heat or water.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities went to the place in Pueblo on Tuesday after getting a tip from neighbors and found 45 macaw parrots, about 150 pigeons and some dogs and cats.<\/p>\n<p>By the time officials went back the next day, two of the macaws had died. Authorities say the elderly owner was feeding them dog food to try to keep them alive.<\/p>\n<p>The 43 surviving macaws were seized Wednesday and taken to a veterinarian. The pigeons, cats and dogs remain on the man&#8217;s property, with officials bringing them food and water.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner hasn&#8217;t been named or charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Avian health technician Karen VanderHyde, left, and veterinarian Noel Opitz, both of the Colorado-based parrot rescue organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabrielfoundation.org\/\">the Gabriel Foundation<\/a>, examine a macaw at the Pueblo Community Animal Shelter on Wednesday. Credit: Bryan Kelsen \/ Associated Press<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of exotic birds are being nursed back to health in Colorado after animal control officers found them malnourished in a condemned house without heat or water. Authorities went to the place in Pueblo on Tuesday after getting a tip from neighbors and found 45 macaw parrots, about 150 pigeons and some dogs and cats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GuB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}