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The following signs or symptoms shown by your pet require urgent emergency treatment.

If you are worried about your bird please contact us by phone: 03 9416 3100.

 

Examples of emergencies:

  • Seizures 

  • Unconscious 

  • Not able to stand or stay on perch, sitting on the bottom of the cage 

  • Not eating or defecating for >24 hours 

  • Open mouth breathing with or without tail bobbing 

  • Anything poking out of their bottom 

  • Bleeding from a blood feather or elsewhere

  • Bitten/attacked by a cat or dog or any trauma 

  • Straining to pass poo or eggs 

  • Broken beaks 

 

Seek care urgently:

  • Any seemingly unwell bird

  • Quiet or lethargic 

  • Reduced appetite 

  • Vomiting or regurgitation 

  • Diarrhoea or a change in droppings 

  • Sneezing or coughing 

  • Swollen eyes 

  • Changes to eggs 

  • Feather plucking or feather loss that has just started 

  • Not using a limb  

  • Blackened toe/s 

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