Polly Want a Home, Any Home Will Do
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YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia — Polly want a passport?
Bentley the parakeet and his vacationing owner were on a ferry home to the United States recently when they were stopped by U.S. Customs in Bar Harbor, Me.
Under health regulations, the bird had to be checked out by a veterinarian, but because Bar Harbor isn’t a designated point of entry for animals, the inspection couldn’t be done there.
Customs officials told Bentley’s owner, who lives in Washington state, to re-enter the United States at an appropriate checkpoint or have the bird destroyed. She decided to give up Bentley and sent him back to Nova Scotia on the ferry--alone.
For two weeks, the bird has been perched at the Canada Customs office in Yarmouth. Customs officials were trying to find him a home.
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