Pet Birds Often Hide Signs of Illness
Pet birds often hide signs of illness until the condition progresses to a serious stage. For preventative care or to learn more about your bird’s current symptoms, check out the Bird Channel’s comprehensive medical database. In any emergency situation or injury, immediately take your bird to an avian veterinarian.
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Important Tips For Your Birds Health
Don't feed your birds a seed diet. A seed diet is like feeding your kids icecream everyday at every meal. Your bird will be sick all the time and die! Get your bird or birds on a pellet diet.
Organic pellet diet is even better.
Don't Ever give your bird WET KISSES!!! Human saliva is poison to birds! Don't let your bird peck your teeth. This is a NO NO to save your birds life!
Never cook with TEFLON!!! Teflon emitts a poison gas and will kill your bird. Use a cast iron pan to cook with.
Don't ever feed your bird chocolate, Cocoa, avacado or onions, coffee, salt! These are poisin foods to your bird. No Guacamole!
Don't keep your birds loose when you are cooking!!! Put your birds in their locked cage or in a bird room away from the kitchen. All kinds of horrible accidents can happen that you aren't aware of. I know this is no fun to read about, but knowing this can save your birds life.
Don't leave the toilet seat up!!! Your bird can drown in the toilet.
Air conditioners can kill your bird. Freon leaks can poison your bird.
Bird Health Alerts
Cleaners, Aerosols, Candles, Other Household Items
The following items have been linked anecdotally to bird deaths. By anecdotally, I mean that individuals have reported sudden, unexplained bird deaths after use of or exposure to these items
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DO NOT GIVE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES to your bird under any circumstances. It is cruel, not amusing, to get your bird drunk. Their liver cannot metabolize the alcohol.
Do not use Corn Cob bedding or walnut shell litter. Your bird will die if he ingests them. I had my little parakeet die from corn cob bedding.
You Need to Bird Proof Your Home
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4th of July Tips for Your 2 Legged and 4 Legged Friend
Keep your pets Safe and Secure inside, at home where it is quiet and out of harms way.
If you insist on having pets to the barbecue,Do Not feed them foods such as onions, chocolate, coffee, avocado, grapes and raisins, salt and yeast dough which can be toxic to companion animals.
Keep your pets on their normal diet. Any change, even for one meal, can give your pets severe indigestion and diarrhea.
Do not apply any sunscreen or insect repellent product to your pet that is not labeled specifically for use on animals. Ingestion of sunscreen products can result in drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive thirst and lethargy. The misuse of insect repellent that contains DEET can lead to neurological problems.
Always keep matches and lighter fluid out of your pets’ reach. Certain types of matches, for example, contain chlorates, which could potentially damage blood cells and result in difficulty breathing.
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