Princess is getting better!!!!!

awesome . i am so glad to hear that

 

Birdlover, I'm thrilled for both of you! It sounds like you've worked hard to help her recover!

I did have a thought: maybe she should not touch the dogfood for a while?

There have been a lot of foods causing illness in pets over the past year, for various reasons, and while one bag might be fine, the next may not be.

The reason I connected it so quickly, is because of my canary.

I've had him for 8 years, and he eats special seed with lots of vegetables and little fruit etc. Well, I needed seed, but for some reason the local company couldn't get it. Eventually I had to do something while we waited for it to arrive, so I went to a petshop and looked at their food.

They didn't have plain canary seed with nothing else in it (I provide vitamins etc. myself.), so I got stuck with a seed "blend". This was last March, just when all the other animal foods were starting to recall.

Well, he ate it, and got ill and almost died....rather like your Princess.

Even though I didn't know about the animal foods yet, I did know that my boy had always been super healthy, and now he wasn't. Cause and effect....the food was new. So I threw it away, and he eventually recovered. Thankfully, 14 months later, he's still happy and healthy, and now has a friend, who I think he may be related to!

In any case, with all the animal food problems, even if a dog or cat doesn't become affected, it might affect a bird who eats it.

I could be totally off track, but I thought it worth mentioning, just in case.

 

Yeah! I'm glad Princess is Ok! My Rosemary is almost back to normal too and, like you, I still don't know for sure what caused it. Be sure & post a pic......

 

Quote:I have read many warnings about giving cat/dog food to birds...not only is there too much salt and, dependent on how much and how often it is eaten, possibly unacceptable (high) levels of some vitamins (it is after all formulated for a different species) the nutrients are also not in the correct ratios ... in addition there are other problems such as pointed out by Dr. Wissman here below (a reknowned avian specialist):
http://www.exoticpetvet.net/avian/challenges.html
"... Lafeber Company makes a critical care formula for gavage-feeding ill birds. If that is not available, you can always use a baby parrot hand-feeding formula. Do not crush up dog food to feed to ill birds. It is well-known that dog foods have allowable levels of bacteria that are not dangerous to dogs, but can be pathogenic, especially to debilitated birds. ..."

 

Great news!

 

That's awesome news, ellen!!!

 

Glad to hear your Princess is getting better!