TAMPA, Fla. – People have been seeing more of their animals since the coronavirus tethered them to their homes.
Dogs bark through Zoom meetings. Cats are our “coworkers.”Majid “Magic” Esmaeili has a few hundred squawking parrots for company.
His only company.His email to the Tampa Bay Times recently arrived with the subject line “SOS.”“My name is Majid Esmaeili (AKA) Magic and I am prisoner in my own property with over 200 parrots.
No way to get in or out.”Since early March, the Tampa man has been “trapped,” he said, due to a court order in a property dispute that has landlocked him on his five-acre Zaksee Florida Bird Sanctuary in Tampa.