songlake
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- Mar 25, 2014
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- Parrots
- 2 moustached parakeets, 2 Sun conures, 20 cockatiels, 11 English budgies
Well SNOT!
Seems my cat decided birds belong in the house and are not food. She brought us a baby dove who is just fledging. Unfortunately no one noticed the incident and when it was finally discovered it,(the baby bird) was perched up with our birds and we are unsure of how long they were exposed to what it has if it has anything. We put it in a spare cage and moved it across the room, I would immediately let it go but the cat did do some damage to the poor thing.
Couple questions:
Would any animal rescue take the bird and doctor it or would they just kill it? (if they would kill it I'm inclined to keep it and dr it up myself seeing as my birds have already been exposed to it, then I would release it back into the wild after it's healed).
How long would it take for my birds to show signs of anything they caught? What could they have caught? What symptoms should I keep a eye out for?
The dove looks healthy other than what the cat did to it but I know there's intestinal parasites etc with wild birds.
The small dove population in my neighborhood does seem healthy, I'm sure it's this baby's parents who come to eat leftover seed I toss out when I'm cleaning my birds cages.
Help, sorta freaking out over the health of my birds now
Seems my cat decided birds belong in the house and are not food. She brought us a baby dove who is just fledging. Unfortunately no one noticed the incident and when it was finally discovered it,(the baby bird) was perched up with our birds and we are unsure of how long they were exposed to what it has if it has anything. We put it in a spare cage and moved it across the room, I would immediately let it go but the cat did do some damage to the poor thing.
Couple questions:
Would any animal rescue take the bird and doctor it or would they just kill it? (if they would kill it I'm inclined to keep it and dr it up myself seeing as my birds have already been exposed to it, then I would release it back into the wild after it's healed).
How long would it take for my birds to show signs of anything they caught? What could they have caught? What symptoms should I keep a eye out for?
The dove looks healthy other than what the cat did to it but I know there's intestinal parasites etc with wild birds.
The small dove population in my neighborhood does seem healthy, I'm sure it's this baby's parents who come to eat leftover seed I toss out when I'm cleaning my birds cages.
Help, sorta freaking out over the health of my birds now
