wendyincali
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- Jun 29, 2015
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Hi All-
I'm new to the bird world! I owned a parakeet years ago, but that's about it. We adopted a baby Green Cheek Conure on Friday from a local pet store (a well known chain one) and he passed away this morning after only 3 days. He was just shy of 3 months old. We are devastated and cannot figure out what would have caused this so soon. I'm wondering if anyone has any feedback.
We have children who handled him, but we were always there watching. The vet also did some xrays for us just to be sure it wasn't an injury. All looked great.
We have not used any non-stick pots and pans, self cleaning ovens, etc. and we did not feed him any of the no-no's (chocolate, avocado, mushrooms, etc.)
The only thing I could possibly think it might be is this morning while running our dishwasher (the bird was in our attached living room) a plastic pancake spatula fell on the metal rod at the bottom and burnt horribly. The smell was awful. He was fine prior to that incident and all of a sudden he was lying on the bottom of the cage already gone.
Needless to say, we are devastated. He really sold himself to us. He was so cheerful and friendly. Anyways, I know it's hard to diagnose without seeing the actual bird or living area, but I thought I'd just ask for any thoughts. We want to get another one, but I'm seriously terrified it's going to die again.
I'm new to the bird world! I owned a parakeet years ago, but that's about it. We adopted a baby Green Cheek Conure on Friday from a local pet store (a well known chain one) and he passed away this morning after only 3 days. He was just shy of 3 months old. We are devastated and cannot figure out what would have caused this so soon. I'm wondering if anyone has any feedback.
We have children who handled him, but we were always there watching. The vet also did some xrays for us just to be sure it wasn't an injury. All looked great.
We have not used any non-stick pots and pans, self cleaning ovens, etc. and we did not feed him any of the no-no's (chocolate, avocado, mushrooms, etc.)
The only thing I could possibly think it might be is this morning while running our dishwasher (the bird was in our attached living room) a plastic pancake spatula fell on the metal rod at the bottom and burnt horribly. The smell was awful. He was fine prior to that incident and all of a sudden he was lying on the bottom of the cage already gone.
Needless to say, we are devastated. He really sold himself to us. He was so cheerful and friendly. Anyways, I know it's hard to diagnose without seeing the actual bird or living area, but I thought I'd just ask for any thoughts. We want to get another one, but I'm seriously terrified it's going to die again.