Golden Triangle Parrot Club

Festival of Parrots Contest Winners

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:38:37 +0000

Fun and laughter was had by all who attened our Festival of Parrots this year! The birds showed off their beautiful feathering and wonderful talents while their owners demonstrated what you need to do to make your feathered friends dance and sing! We will now be looking at adding a new contest category to next year’s event – where the owner’s antics will be judged as well!

I would like to thank everyone for joining us, helping with set up and clean up and give a special thanks for our friends who helped out out as judges at the event. Lilla, Marie and Al learned a lot about parrots and more about parrot owners than they ever imagined!!

2009 Festival of Parrots Winners

Photos to be posted soon

September Meeting, Annual Picnic & Festival of Parrots – Sun Sep 13/09

Suzan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:46:52 +0000

Our 1st Annual Pet Bird Show was a great success however we needed more time and space. Therefore, we are combining our September meeting, Annual Picnic and Festival of Parrots into one major event and moved it to Sunday, September 13th. The location for this year’s event will be the CAW Hall (small school house) located at 611 Silvercreek Parkway in Guelph. A separate flyer will be mailed out with all the details including directions.

The picnic will be pot luck (club will provide drinks). Bring your feathered (and in some cases your “not so feathered”) friends and participate in this year’s Festival of Parrots. If last year was any indication we are definitely going to have a blast! There are lots of “unique” categories so everyone is sure to go home a winner. GTPC Award Ribbons are waiting for your FIDS. We will also have fun activities for owner and parrot alike with prizes for the winners. Don’t miss out on the fun. This year’s proceeds will be donated to the CPC’s Pennies 4 Parrots (www.pennies4parrots.ca) campaign (you can play games / get tickets tickets for as low as $0.01 to participate), so dig into your penny/coin jars and come armed and ready!

If you would like to volunteer to be a judge or help out at one the stations, please let us know.
WHEN Sunday Sep 13th festivities begin at 1:00 PM

WHERE CAW Hall (small school house) located at 611 Silvercreek Parkway in Guelph.

BYOFF (bring you own feathered friend(s))

BYOFTS (bring your own food to share – appetizer, salad, dessert, main dish)

July & Aug Meetings

Suzan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:36:36 +0000

A friendly reminder that as we are all so busy in the summer with family activities, holidays, etc., there will be no meetings in July or August.

Stayed tuned for details about our September meeting which will be held on Sunday, September 13 and be a combination of meeting, Festival of Parrots & Annual Picnic. Be sure to mark your calendars for what promises to be a spectacular day with our families & feathered companions.

June Meeting

Suzan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:27:20 +0000

It’s time for our 2nd Annual Buy & Sell. Members are encouraged to bring clean gently used parrot related items (toys, stands, cages, etc.) to sell, trade or give away. If you have a talent for making foraging items or play toys/stands, or perhaps you are into baking goodies for your parrots at home, these too would be great additions and especially enjoyed by our feathered friends.

Some of our members have indicated they will donate any funds raised to the GTPC’s Pennies4Parrots challenge (www.pennies4parrots.ca) to help boost our fund raising dollars.

Emerald Feather (www.emeraldfeather.com) will also be on hand with a selection of goods for sale. They will be donating 20% of all sales to the GTPC Pennies4Parrots fund.

Looking forward to seeing you all on June 10th.

May Meeting

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:54:19 +0000

It’s time to make foraging toys!

The club will provide supplies (we are asking for a $2 donation to help offset the costs). You are also welcome to contribute to the pile and add your creativity to making these treats for our feathered friends.

CPC09 Featured Birds Photo Submission Deadline. If you don’t have any good photos of your birds, bring them to this month’s club meeting and we will take photos! Maybe your bird will be the next bird on all of the CPC advertising and tote bags for 2009!!

Here are the rules:

You must be a paid up member of GTPC to submit a photo of your feathered friend

We need two photos

– a good shoulder and head shot (side view)

– a full body picture (any angle as)

Photos must be print size as follows:

- 5″ x 7″ 1500 x 2100 pixels or

- 8″ x 10″ 2400 x 3000 pixels (preferred)

Bring your digital copies to the club meeting or e-mail them to info@gtpc.ca with the subject CPC09 Featured Birds.

See at the meeting tomorrow
Nathalie

Quaker Hero

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:46:58 +0000

Award for parrot that warned baby was choking

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Last Updated: 24th March 2009, 9:02am

DENVER — A parrot whose cries of alarm alerted his owner when a little girl choked on her breakfast has been honoured as a hero.

Willie, a Quaker parrot, has been given the local Red Cross chapter’s Animal Lifesaver Award.

In November, Willie’s owner, Megan Howard, was baby-sitting for a toddler. Howard left the room and the little girl, Hannah, started to choke on her breakfast.

Willie repeatedly yelled “Mama, baby” and flapped his wings, and Howard returned in time to find the girl already turning blue.

Howard saved Hannah by performing the Heimlich manoeuvre but said Willie “is the real hero.”

“The part where she turned blue is always when my heart drops no matter how many times I’ve heard it,” Hannah’s mother, Samantha Kuusk, told KCNC-TV. “My heart drops in my stomach and I get all teary eyed.”

Willie got his award during a “Breakfast of Champions” event Friday attended by Gov. Bill Ritter and Mayor John Hickenlooper.

From the Toronto Sun
torontosun.com

Mar 11 Topic Change

Suzan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:13:05 +0000

Both Nathalie and I have had emergencies just happen (Nat is in emergency waiting to have her daughter’s head stitched and I have just had a water pipe burst and am awaiting the plumber’s arrival). In lieu of this, our Chile presentation may be changed to our April meeting as we both want to be present and the way things look at the moment only one of us will be able to make the meeting this evening (most likely me – Allan will have to stay with the plumber).

We just wanted to give you all a heads up.

Suzan & Nathalie

GTPC’s New Website

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:05:30 +0000

Welcome to GTPC’s new website. We have converted our site to a blog site to provide executive members with greater ease to update everyone on upcoming events and activities. We will no longer be using the yahoo groups and will ask all club members (and anyone who is interested) to register with this site. You will then be able to access site materials and can be set up with an RSS feed that will send you e-mails anytime a new posting is made on this site.

Enjoy!
Nathalie
GTPC President

ParrotMedics

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:43:14 +0000

Our club put together our first series of ParrotMedics Feathered Friend First Aid kits at this month’s meeting. It was amazing how so many hands to get so many kits put together. We will start selling the kits at the Canadian Parrot Conference at the club table in the vendors area. Details will be posted at www.parrotmedics.ca ALL proceeds will be donated to Avian Disease Research at the Ontario Veterinary College.

Festival of Parrots

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:44:53 +0000

Our club held it’s first Festival of Parrots and everyone had a great time! A lot of our feathered friends went home with winning ribbons. There was lots of food, laughter, silliness and fun. We raised funds that will go towards conservation efforts throug the upcoming club challenge to be announced at the Canadian Parrot Conference. We plan to make the event even better next year!