Monthly Archives: November 2015

By Janet Trumbule, October 24 2015 BJ is one of a number of parrots who give meaning to our philosophy of "Sanctuary." His survival against so many odds and his overt happiness in recent years has been an inspiration to…

By Michael Marion, Friend of The Oasis – July 2015 My dear wife Linda was told that she had Stage IV lung cancer in June of 2010. Despite the devastating news we were determined to fight. Linda loved all kinds…

By Sybil Erden, Founder – May 9, 2014 Recently I took my camera to The Oasis to take pictures of the birds at the sanctuary. Some of these birds I have known since before the inception of The Oasis Sanctuary.…

By Ruth Ann La Rue – August 24, 2013 On June 2, 2013 at 10:05 a.m. a little soul winged its way to Heaven. The soul’s name on earth had been Velcro. Velcro hatched in 1993 as a Congo African…

By Janet Trumbule, Executive Director of Administration – June 7, 2014 Red hatched in 1993 in a pet store where he was handfed by the store owner, Joe -Red adored the guy. Joe decided to keep Red in his home…

By Janet Trumbule, Executive Director of Administration – August 22, 2013 If you’ve had a chance to visit the sanctuary this article will make you think back and smile. If not…let me introduce you to Ophelia, our resident Black Lory.…

By Ruth Ann La Rue, Intake/Foster Care - March 22, 2014 J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, includes a fictional character Gandalf the Wizard. Tolkien describes Gandalf as one who “seemed the least, less tall than…

By Sybil Erden, Founder – October 2014 Archie and Edith came to us, shipped in large crates, along with Phillipe and Pricilla, from a breeder in southern Florida in 1994. They were wild-caught retired breeding pairs of Macaws. Phillipe and…

By Ruth Ann La Rue – September 13, 2014 Andreas & Snowey are two Moluccan Cockatoo boys that we highlighted in our September 2014 fundraising letter. In his early years Andreas was a robust and beautiful Cockatoo. As his family’s…