1/17/22 Update: WE DID IT!!! Thank you all so very much for making our year end fund appeal successful, for helping us to raise $10,290 AND to earn Aileen’s $10,000 match for a total of $20,290! THANK YOU!
12/21/21 Update: Thank you very much to our generous year end appeal donors who have contributed $5,218 so far! Please donate now & Aileen will double your gift to Palomacy up to $10,000.
Dear Fellow Pigeon and Dove Lovers,
Thank you for your compassionate support of Palomacy this year. Together, we are helping more and more birds. In 2019, we placed 163 rescued pigeons and doves into wonderful forever homes. In 2020, we placed 257 (a 58% increase!) and we are on track to place more than 300 birds this year. We simply could not do it without you.
My name is Aileen and I have been volunteering with Palomacy since 2015. When my day job gets stressful, I seek comfort from my pigeons Charlie Girl and Boomer. I go say hi, have a snuggle and a little chat. Maybe Charlie Girl wants to come indoors for some play-flying (she’s blind). Maybe Boomer will let me hold him. In exchange, I tidy up their house a little, maybe leave a few safflower seeds. Charlie and Boomer are full of love, but pigeons, I think, value dignity just as much as love.
Charlie was an orphaned feral fledgling rescued in 2016, blind due to head trauma and unreleasable. Even though she is blind, Charlie is calm and trusting. She loves kisses and will sit on anything that is perchable. She also loves to fly (safely indoors): she will launch off my fingertips, get an updraft, and then land on my fingers on the way down. However, she does NOT like to be held or scritched!
Boomer, on the other hand, is nervous. He is a rescued racer with a bum wing and only one good eye. I can’t imagine how weird and scary the world must look for a pigeon with one eye. It also must frustrate him to have a wife who can’t admire his magnificence. Yet he is 200 percent devoted to his home. He will let me hold him for scritches and snuggles, but my hands are very scary. So mostly I gaze at him lovingly from afar and tell him I love him, until he sort of starts to believe me. Then we do it again the next day.
Even with these challenges, Charlie and Boomer are a happy pigeon couple, living fully and giving joy. All they needed was a chance at life and they figured out the rest. But for the good Samaritans who rescued them and found Palomacy, Charlie and Boomer would have most likely died painful deaths. Instead, Palomacy has made a huge difference to them, and they have made a huge difference to me.
This year I am offering $10,000 as a matching grant to help boost our end of the year donations. Whatever amount you donate, I will match (up to $10,000) and together, we will double the support Palomacy receives! The demand for Palomacy’s work has grown much faster than funding and Palomacy really needs our generous support. I love Charlie and Boomer dearly and can’t imagine my life without them. I want to help Palomacy rescue many more pigeons and doves. We need to keep Palomacy going.
Will you please join me and make an end-of-year tax-deductible donation to help us keep Palomacy funded? Your support allows us to continue saving lives, like Charlie’s and Boomer’s. Please donate here.
Thank you!
