Bridgeville plumbing company shelters parrots with rescue partnership
Sureway's Bridgeville warehouse gave Heart & Soul room for as many as 30 parrots at once while the rescue lined up foster and permanent homes.
Sureway Heating Cooling and Plumbing’s Bridgeville warehouse became an unlikely holding space for as many as 30 parrots at a time, giving Heart & Soul Parrot Rescue room to keep birds while it lined up foster or permanent homes. The plumbing and HVAC company has also provided monthly meeting space and pitched in on fundraisers and day-to-day needs.
Heart & Soul, founded in 1998 by Sherry Johnson, has rehomed more than 1,000 parrots across the Pittsburgh area. It is all-volunteer and foster-based, with volunteers who have at least five years of rescue experience, and its goal is a permanent placement for every bird it takes in.
Petfinder requires a two-hour adoption class, a home check, and a meet-and-greet with the birds, and adopters must live within 1.5 to 2 hours of Pittsburgh. Heart & Soul also asks prospective adopters and foster families to keep a smoke-free household. Its class covers safe foods, bedding-cleaning schedules, bird training and handling, and the importance of toys and enrichment. Before adoption, each bird gets a complete veterinary exam and health assessment.
Its pricing page lists lovebirds at $75 and poicephalus parrots at $1,100. Heart & Soul lists avian veterinary partners, including board-certified avian veterinarian Robert A. Wagner in Pittsburgh.
Heart & Soul held a Basic Parrot Class at Sureway Comfort on Washington Avenue in Bridgeville on July 13, 2024, February 7, 2026, and June 6, 2026. Sureway employees and customers have also adopted birds through the rescue.
Heart & Soul started because its founders saw other rescues favor birds that were easier to place while overlooking pluckers and birds with expensive veterinary needs.
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