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| | From:  okieannie100 (Original Message) | Sent: 11/28/2005 7:49 PM |
as most of you know i have 2 budgies sea and puff well i have been
keeping a 6 week old kittern from the time it was a mo. old till it
beening 6 weeks old which it is now but i lost a budgie to a cat in
oct. of 2004 pr 3 and i dont want it to happen again the only time
brownie the kittern get out is when am in the room she a simases mix i
dont let her get on the bed that is where they are in my bed room and if
i put the kittern in another room it wont be getting out as much as it
is now what should i do and hope everyone had a goood thanksgiving
(Are the things we touch and love are they things we want or just a
dream of it all in this world)
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| | | I think if your cat is around the birds in the house from a very young age they learn to recognise that the birds are one of the family. My Persian never goes anywhere near my bird, in fact, she will leave the room herself when she knows the parrot is out. My daughter also has a cat that thinks it is a bird, because it was born in the room where the cage was. And here is the proof. Even so, my daughter is always close by when the birds are out of the cage and the cat is around, and she still puts the cat out if she is going to be preoccupied with something else, even if she is in the same room. I am not suggesting anyone else should allow their cats to get this close to their birds, but this pic does show that if they are brought up together from a very young age they do believe they are all members of the same family. | | |
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Please, both of you ladies read this article. It is so important to the lives of your birds to never allow a cat anywhere near your birds. Annie |
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I started a reply to this before going to work this morning, but I got so worked up about it I killed it. That bacteria is not harmless to humans either. I had emergency surgery on my hand and spent eight days in hospital from a bite on a finger by a cat about 9 months old. I won't go into the gory details as a lot of you have heard the story before. But I came really close to losing my finger, or even my entire hand! From a pinprick of a bite. I personally wouldn't dream of taking a chance like that with any of my birds. All it takes is for a cat to bat playfully a bird, and it could be game over for the bird. Abby |
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| | | From: momnoah | Sent: 11/29/2005 8:19 AM |
I'll second that Abby. I spent 6 days in the hospital in July, and a week more at home on IV antibiotics due to a pasturella infection in my leg due to my cat. She has seizures and I got a tiny puncture wound to the back of my thigh when she had one under my chair. It was sore within 12 hrs, swollen in 24, and I was feverish shortly there after. 36 hrs later I was in the hosp. with a leg swollen, red, and very painful. She had scratched me several times before and I had no problem. As always I washed it well right after it happened, then used peroxide and neosporin ointment. After this cat passes on, I'll not be getting another. Not with birds in the house too. JMHO |
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Thank you very much for posting the article about cats and dogs. My daughter came to visit today and I showed it to her. She was as shocked as me to read about the saliva being so toxic. You can rest assured that my cat and dogs will not be allowed anywhere near my birds from this day on and my daughter has said the same. We both love our birds very much and would never forgive ourselves if anything was to happen to them through our neglect. I am so pleased to have found this group, you have already helped me so much with the advise I have read in the many posts and the numerous articles I have found here. Keep up the good work. |
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I've shared this before but not with Joy. My son had a scratch from a kitten (a friends) he kept on visiting with them and forgot all about the scratch. A week or so later he thought he had a bad case of the flu, although out of season, and took a few days off work. An employee stopped by his place and found him unconscious on the couch, called an ambulance and he was admitted to the hospital. Tests showed he had Cat Scratch Fever and had to have all his Lymph Nodes removed.... He required two surgeries as it had spread to the chest not just shoulder/ arm area. It seemed to be the equivalent of a mastectomy. Very painful and he was ill for some time.... Recovery was a long haul and to this day he still has some pain on his left side and rib area�?Too2 |
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Joy, I think the most wonderful thing about the internet is that it expands our knowledge base. I have learned so much from the members here and at our sister site, BLI, since I first got involved more than five years ago. I think being able to learn from the firsthand experiences of others who may be a few miles away, a half a continent away, or on the other side of the world is such an advantage. And then we have access to people like Toolady and Annie ... Toolady with her years of experience with birds, and Annie with her gift for research. There are dozens of others as well, who contribute their knowledge and experience as well. Thank you, all of you, for the part you play in making this group so informative as well as fun!! Abby |
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I am so relieved when we get a reply from someone like Joy, who reads the information and responds positively to it. Makes all the hours of research worthwhile. We have a terrific group of people here. And more terrific people join everyday. Annie |
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I feel exactly as does Annie. To have someone actually read and take the time to respond makes me know that they want to learn, that they will remember what they read and like Joy, pass the information along to her daughter, who in turn will share that same information even further. The web has made bird care so much easier and with so many less heartaches as was the case in my day when I started out. We need the next generation to take husbandry seriously, read, listen and ask questions. Having a bird is not just sticking it in a cage with a bowl of seed. We've by passed those days of silly myths. There is no excuse for poor bird care. Communication is instant, no need to "wing it." We may not all agree on what we read but since there is so much information available, we now have choices... but the basics never falter.. The crucial needs are the same....... we are not vets and don't try to be.. still we have a "sense" after raising our flock, after we've made mistakes knowing we would never want anyone to duplicate the hurt and pain some of us have experienced. We may seem abrupt (myself) in answers we give, we may act "smarter' than some others, but I believe the bottom line is, irregarless of what someone thinks of me or I of them.....I care deeply for the birds in question and that is my one and only concern .... Too2 |
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