The "conflict" is that effective protection for companion birds from predator pets is genuinely the inciting element that started the referenced 2014 disruption. Such protection has always been the mission at PP; we were in fact founded because of this very topic! Those individuals (staff members included) who opposed my efforts to enforce our policy in this regard found themselves hard-pressed for a basis to their opposition and thus went rogue against PP management (i.e., me). They claimed that my motivation was actually about power and control, virtually ignoring the genuine motivation which was (and continues to be) animal safety. Thus whenever I hear that my actions in the matter were for some sort of personal gain, it both hurts and bewilders me. The fact that some folks can be so wrong in their assessment of the matter and about me, and seemingly because it provides them a convenient opposing argument, is quite disturbing.