When you are cooking you must always lock him in his cage. Even though it makes him mad, better a mad bird than a dead bird.

 

An acquaintance of mine let her cockatiel fly free and one day when she was sauteing mushrooms he flew into the frying pan. They yanked him out and he jumped right back in. Burned his feet off. I made her give him to me because I was willing to spend the money at the vet that she could not afford.  Every day I took him in and the vet would break off the little dead toes. He didn't even feel it because they had no feeling. After getting him past the crisis, I gave him to a lady I know who takes in disabled birds. She made him a waterbed with special food bowls and carried him every where she went. He lived a few more years and then died.

It was not worth letting him have the freedom while she was cooking.

Another friend left her two cockatiels out while frozen meat was thawing in the sink. The birds landed on the frozen meat and stayed there til their feet froze and the toes died. Both birds died within 2 or 3 days.

Nope, it isn't worth it.  Lock him up!!!

Annie

 

This is a great article .... I have most of her/their articles bookmarked.

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