Advice please

[Stitchthestitch]

I've leant Albie's travel cage to a friend as she her cat brought home a pigeon last night with out actually thinking it through with what I'll do when it gets returned. All. I was thinking was I need to help this bird.

When I get it back, will scrubbing it with f10 and hot water be enough to kill any nasties that the pigeon may be carrying? Or will it need bleaching as well?

I don't want Albie catching anything from it.

 

[Scott]

Oh so right to use utmost caution! What are the materials.... all metal travel cage, plastic enclosure, combination of both?

 

[Stitchthestitch]

It's metal with a plastic base

 

[noodles123]

It's hard to say- but f10 doesn't kill everything. At the same time, some diseases respond BETTER to less bleach than more bleach...Can you consider getting another travel cage and reserving that for wild birds/pigeons? I know people think I'm paranoid, but I genuinely have a pretty solid background in terms of virology etc. That having been said, I am not a vet or a doctor. The thing is, even if you dumped pure bleach on something, it might deactivate some viruses, while leaving others untouched (because, for whatever reason) less bleach actually can kill more in some instances. There are also some viruses that would respond better to F10 than to bleach...so you can't know for sure. Many members trust bleach and sunlight for a few days (plus a wash-down) ---I just have spent too many hours reading veterinary journals etc to be certain that is enough.

 

[Stitchthestitch]

This is what I was afraid of... All because I wanted to help an injured bird, which as it turns out, is a collared dove and not a pigeon, not that it makes a difference. It could still be carrying nasty things

 

[noodles123]

This is what I was afraid of... All because I wanted to help an injured bird, which as it turns out, is a collared dove and not a pigeon, not that it makes a difference. It could still be carrying nasty things

Technically, pigeons and doves are the same (but we project a societal hierarchy onto them).


SEE link: http://www.doveline.com/html/dove-information.html
and this: https://pigeonpedia.com/difference-between-dove-and-pigeon/


You didn't do the wrong thing-- it is just a matter of taking this seriously enough because you don't know (nor would you, with any wild bird, parrot whatever).
If you caught a wild macaw or macaw with unknown background, the same would apply.


That having been said, a truly wild bird will be more likely to carry disease, just because they survived to adulthood and didn't die