Heidi Fleiss leaving Nevada after shooting of exotic bird

So-called erstwhile “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for the apprehension of the idiosyncratic who changeable and injured 1 of her parrots adjacent her Fort Churchill spot disconnected North Highway 160.

Her Pahrump location is adjacent to a subdivision and doubles arsenic her longtime exotic vertebrate sanctuary.

Fleiss, 56, told the Pahrump Valley Times she believes the shooting occurred connected Christmas Eve.

“Everyone knows they’re my birds and they truly bask them,” Fleiss said. “When [the bird] came location successful the precocious afternoon, she fell and that’s erstwhile I noticed determination was thing incorrect with her leg.”

The veterinarian was closed for the holidays, Fleiss said, truthful she couldn’t instantly get it to a doctor.

Veterinarian visit

The pursuing Monday, Fleiss took the 5-year-old macaw — named Chuey aft famed post-war American creator Robert Chuey — to section veterinarian Dr. Jack Thomas for an exam.

That’s erstwhile she learned the grade of the parrot’s injuries.

“He took an X-ray and helium showed maine idiosyncratic changeable it with a pellet gun, and her limb is fractured and crushed,” Fleiss said. “What benignant of a sick f*ck would sprout her portion she was flying with her brother? It’s going to beryllium a horrible country for her.”

Fleiss said she’s had Chuey since the time she was calved and speculated the shooter whitethorn person been visiting for the holidays.

“I privation to castrate him, I privation them to get the decease punishment for shooting my small Chuey, who was conscionable flying astir doing thing — and they sprout her,” she said. “I privation them to person the decease punishment due to the fact that everyone successful the subdivision knows her and they emotion her.”

Fleiss contacted Nye County Animal Control and retained the pellet removed from the bird’s limb arsenic evidence.

So long, Pahrump

Fleiss, who has been a Pahrump nonmigratory for astir 15 years, said she’s made a pugnacious determination to determination from confederate Nevada for the information of her birds.

“I bought a spot successful the Ozarks and I’m moving them by the extremity of February,” she said. “Last period has been truthful tragic for my birds due to the fact that someone’s favored bobcat got into the location and determination was a massacre. You know, there’s truthful galore radical present with nary respect for anything.”

Fleiss said she’s purchased a 50-acre wood adjacent the Little House connected the Prairie Historical Museum successful Missouri, wherever she plans to relocate her exotic vertebrate rescue sanctuary.

“My birds volition beryllium retired of present by the extremity of February. I deliberation the champion moments of my beingness person been present with my birds, watching them alert and research and seeing them person state from years of sitting successful cages,” she said. “It’s truly been an unthinkable acquisition and I’ve had immoderate of the champion times of my beingness present — but unfortunately, the worst.”

So Fleiss is flying the coop.

“I hatred to go, but it’s not just to the birds to enactment them done this,” she said.

— Harris is simply a newsman with the Pahrump Valley Times. Contact Harris astatine sharris@pvtimes.com.