New Blog Article:Metal Toxicity and Parrots Options

[Shelly]

I am re-posting this story about a special bird named Chit Chat. It's an important reminder of how quickly our parrots can get into trouble. The following was written by Chit Chat's owner, Angela Rolland.


Our nightmare started on Friday, April the 30th, 1999.


Damian and I had been extremely busy the previous weeks, me with QPS (Quaker Parakeet Society) stuff and Damian with building an extravagant iguana cage for some friends. He was using hardware cloth that was coated with zinc. Usually we deoxidize any kind of wiring that we bring into the house but this being for an iguana and not our pet we didn’t do it. However, we did instruct the owners of the iguana to do it after all this has happened. Damian completed the cage Friday afternoon, cleaned up his mess and took the cage to our friends.





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