Healthipet Network NJ Branch

SINCE march has a holiday in it i have scheduled a class for Friday 3/12 at 8pm. THIS will be a class in honor of St pattys day an we will be making toys that will be in that theme. 

 IF anyone is interested in joining in Please let me know .

The next classes will be held 3/26 friday at 8pm  3/27 saturday at 8pm an 3/28 Sunday at 8pm 

This is the regular scheduled classes. 

Anyone who wants to join can do so by contacting me . 

Thanks 

Well i would like to share a toy that was made in februarys class. THIS was done by one of the members an i think she did one heck of a job. SO without further addo here is Marie-Renie's toy from last night (2/27) class. NOW tell me THIS is not one great toy . CONGRATS marie-renie on making one excellent toy an you will have to let us know how your bird enjoyed it 

HEY everyone

 If you have not done so check out the web store. MANY new items have been added. SOME really nice things to make toys for out fids with. YOU will be very happy with these items. I am currently working on the toys we will be making for the xmas classes. THESE i will say are going to be a big hit around here. HOPE everyone is having a good day .. Talk to you all soon

HI everyone

 wanted to share with you some news. Starting MONDAY July 27th anyone who is a member of the Parrot Toy Class that places an order with me will get free shipping on orders of $50.00 or more this is good until August 31st 2009. BUT to get the free shipping you must send me your order. I am not sure if it will work on the website.

  I will be adding some new items in the next week. I will send out announcements when i do.

      Sorry this is just for the Continental US only. NO canada or international orders.

HEY all here is the list of supplys we will be doing for the next class.

 First let me mention we will be doing the toys from last month that we could not get too actually all of them  in case anyone did not get to do the ones we did finish

  The schedule will be as follows

   wed 6/24 Xl Toy with dowel :::Boomerang toy from last month:::and if we have time medium cone toy from last month

 Thursday 6/25 Large toy with wreath:::Xl cone toy  and small piggy toy from last month if time allows

 Friday 6/26 Medium toy with basket, Small toy with bowls, AND if time allows we can go over any toys anyone has missed.

 IF anyone cannot make any of these classes and would like to make any of the toys PLEASE email me an let me know we can schedule class for the morning of the following week.

   OK supplys needed

    the ones from last months class are below just look at the list

  for this months new toys are :::

 XL toy

  Rope can be hemp or sisal or cotton

 one dowel or piece of wood 12 inch in length

 small wood blocks

 4 pieces of wood can be a dowel or piece of wood  6 inches in length

loofah

 shredderes

 small vine wreaths about 10 of these

 large vine wreaths about 4 of these

 if you want to use something other then the vine wreaths that is fine

 Large Toy

  1 6in or 8 in wreath

  wood blocks medium size

 wood dowels  4 of them 9 inches in size 

 rope ; can be hemp, sisal or cotton

 loofah

 small vine wreaths about 10 of these

 shredders

Medium Toy 

 plastic basket that can be bought at walmart . this basket has the play fruit inside

 or any kind of plastic basket

 plastic fruit

 rope : can be hemp, cotton or sisal

 wood blocks  small or medium size

 plastic toothbrushes

 shredded paper

 shredders

 paper adding machine roll

small toy

 2 small vine bowls  or if you choose plastic bowls

 rope : can be jute, or paulie or cotton

 beads

 large vine wreath about 4 of these

 small vine wreath about 8 of these

 paper adding machine roll

IF you are going to take the New Morning Class? the items you need for this class will be the XXL an xl/large toys. List can be found in previous blog . ANY questions please ask.

Thanks everyone

Classes will be held next friday night an saturday 05/15/09 an 05/16/09 . Here are the list of supplys for those that may have missed the items

 XXL TOY

 1 plastic cone

  plastic chain

  rope: can be hemp, sisal or cotton

 leather laces length is up to you

 1 roll of adding machine paper

 mini playing cards at least 2 decks

 Plastic tooth brushes

 Wood blocks

XL/Large Toy

 1 boomerang

 wiffle balls small

 rope : can be hemp or sisal

 plastic chain

 tooth brushes

 plastic bears

 plastic snakes

 plastic alaphabet letters

1 deck large playing cards

Medium Toy

 1 plastic cone

 Plastic chain

 Rope

 Leather Laces your choice of length

 plastic sea animals

 plastic fish

 Large wiffle

 playing cards, can be the jumbo, regular or mini

Small Toy

 1 plastic piggie bank

 rope

 plastic chain

 beads

 straws

shredders

craft sticks

Most of these items are available on the site for purchase. Please if you are going to order DO so now so that you will have your items for classes.

Thanks

"Hello Dorothy and Ericka

I am just reeling from the news ....... and smiling ear to ear

I had to read your email three times before it sank in .... I won ....I actually won!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You just don't know what this means to me. I have only been an African Grey mom for a few months and I am trying so hard to be a good one.

I don't earn very much and have to source the cheapest items to make toys for my boy and I worry all the time that he is not entertained enough and will start plucking.

You have made my day, heck no, my year. Thank you so, so, so much. I can't wait to receive my prize and share it with my boy.

Please give Henry a very big hug and kiss from me. I am going to just love what he has selected.

Thank you so much

Love and best wishes to you all

Thea

(Theadebra)"

(Pictures of prize to be posted soon!)

One of our rescue/shelter birds, Honey, an 18 year old Moluccan Cockatoo, passed away this weekend after a long battle with numerous health issues. 

Honey was rescued by another shelter from a home that she was being abused in. She had a huge hole that was bleeding and infected, she almost didnt make it. She was a fighter and pulled through. But then, the owner of the rescue fell ill and couldn't care for her anymore. About a year ago this August, the other shelter called Dorothy/Healthipet-NJ to pick Honey up from Bergenfield. When she got Honey she was plucked, had no tail, a gaping hole in the chest that was finally beigging to scab from the medication that he was giving her.

After being with Dorothy for about 3-4 months Honey began to feather out, her tail began to grow back, her chest was healing further and she even stopped picking at herself. Then things turned for the worse when she had a stroke and fell off the perch. We believe she broke both of her legs during the fall. She seemed to be getting better but about 3 weeks later she had another stroke and ultimately thats what ended her life.  "It's like losing a human family member," Dorothy said. "This is why we solicit donations so we can get the vetrinary care that birds like Honey need to get well".

Most of us have owned a pet at some time in our lives, and very often our pets become as much a family member as our human kith and kin. So it is that the death of a pet can represent a time of great loss and sorrow. Therefore, in honor of Honey, we decided to create a Pet Memorial section on our site. If you have a pet bird that you recently lost, I am willing to publish your pet's memorial and pictures here. Please email a brief bio and details about your bird along with photos and we will post it on our memorial page.

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for your feedback. We just wanted to let you know that we are aware of the photo viewing problem on some of the webstore's new products. Some of them need to be changed to a different file format and some need to be decreased in size. Please be patient as editing sometimes takes up a lot of time on an already slow PC; not to mention we had a rescue bird pass away this weekend.

We are working on the issue and will have it resolved A.S.A.P.

Thanks! =)