After nearly 650 exotic birds were seized from one Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, home during a police raid, they ended up with an unlikely caretaker: a dog rescue.
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According to CBS 21, the PA Game Commission and Harrisburg Police Department executed a search on the 1000 block of Lone Street, where a resident was allegedly keeping the hundreds of exotic birds.
Just hours after the raid, the animals were placed with Knine Rescue, an organization that — unsurprisingly — primarily helps dogs.
Knine Rescue president Amy Creel told CBS 21 that animal control officers reached out because they needed assistance with the large-scale case. She said that although the organization mainly rescues dogs, it has also helped with a major bird hoarding case in Baltimore and has bird experts on its team.
Creel subsequently explained to the outlet that a seizure of this size still surpassed anything her group had expected, adding, “It’s the biggest case that I’ve ever been involved in in over a decade of doing this work.” Creel added that the birds included finches, parakeets, canaries, macaws, lovebirds, and Quakers…