From our friends at the Pet Connection Blog. I had no idea!
Like most anyone who is always giving out advice to pet-lovers, I sometimes forget the things I think are absolutely-everyone-knows-this facts aren’t anywhere near as widely known as I’d hope.
Which is why across all our media platfoms (and aren’t those fancy words for newspaper column, Web sites, blogs and the TV/radio appearances for Dr. Becker?) we always find ourselves doubling back to hit the basics. Because sometimes people mean well, but just don’t know any better.
That’s why this afternoon I’m reminding everyone that pet birds should never be caged in the kitchen, and that if you use non-stick cookware, maybe you ought not. I gave away the nonstick stuff when I first got a parrot and haven’t any since.
Why? Because the fumes given off by the non-stick coating can kill your bird. It’s actually common enough that I know several people who have killed their birds this way, just not realizing the danger.
And it’s really deadly stuff for birds. From the Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinal in Maine:
Could nonstick coating material used on some kitchen cookware have caused the deaths of a dozen exotic birds this past weekend?
Probably, says Dr. Anne Lichtenwalner, director of the diagnostic laboratory at the University of Maine, who performed a necropsy — an examination of the internal organs — on several of the dead birds.
Contacted late Wednesday, Lichtenwalner said her test results point to fumes from nonstick coatings on cookware as the most likely cause of death.
“The lesions common to the several birds that we necropsied were consistent with acute death due to an inhaled toxicant,” Lichtenwalner said. “I was able to reach the caretaker of the animals who said she was cooking with a pan; it was a nonstick pan.
“That is the most likely cause. That’s likely to have been the case.”
The cockatiels, parrots and parakeets died suddenly Sunday night as a woman was making dinner for herself and two other adults.
The birds, said Starks Fire Chief Julie Costigan, were in cages just 10 feet from the cooking area. They all died within 30 minutes of one another.
BE AWARE!
Like most anyone who is always giving out advice to pet-lovers, I sometimes forget the things I think are absolutely-everyone-knows-this facts aren’t anywhere near as widely known as I’d hope.
Which is why across all our media platfoms (and aren’t those fancy words for newspaper column, Web sites, blogs and the TV/radio appearances for Dr. Becker?) we always find ourselves doubling back to hit the basics. Because sometimes people mean well, but just don’t know any better.
That’s why this afternoon I’m reminding everyone that pet birds should never be caged in the kitchen, and that if you use non-stick cookware, maybe you ought not. I gave away the nonstick stuff when I first got a parrot and haven’t any since.
Why? Because the fumes given off by the non-stick coating can kill your bird. It’s actually common enough that I know several people who have killed their birds this way, just not realizing the danger.
And it’s really deadly stuff for birds. From the Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinal in Maine:
Could nonstick coating material used on some kitchen cookware have caused the deaths of a dozen exotic birds this past weekend?
Probably, says Dr. Anne Lichtenwalner, director of the diagnostic laboratory at the University of Maine, who performed a necropsy — an examination of the internal organs — on several of the dead birds.
Contacted late Wednesday, Lichtenwalner said her test results point to fumes from nonstick coatings on cookware as the most likely cause of death.
“The lesions common to the several birds that we necropsied were consistent with acute death due to an inhaled toxicant,” Lichtenwalner said. “I was able to reach the caretaker of the animals who said she was cooking with a pan; it was a nonstick pan.
“That is the most likely cause. That’s likely to have been the case.”
The cockatiels, parrots and parakeets died suddenly Sunday night as a woman was making dinner for herself and two other adults.
The birds, said Starks Fire Chief Julie Costigan, were in cages just 10 feet from the cooking area. They all died within 30 minutes of one another.
BE AWARE!
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