More Chatboards | Print | Share | Report Post

PARROT CLUBS/MEETINGS: Emergencies and Your Pet Bird

Posted by luciedove on 10/24/07

Sunday, November 18

Emergencies and Your Pet Bird

1 - 4pm

Meeting Place:

NYC Veterinary Specialists
410 West 55th street at 9th Avenue
New York, NY

Dr. Sally Haddock*, DVM and Dr. Amy Kurowski, DVM will
lead the presentation.
St. Marks Veterinary Hospital

Part One:
Discussion of common household dangers and environmental
injuries in the bird. How to keep your bird safe in your
home.

Part Two:
Avian illnesses which can present as emergency situations
in your bird. How to diagnose and treat these illnesses.

Following the presentation we will have an informal
question and answer period.

Please rsvp

*From New York Magazine - Best Vets in NYC
"Exotics"
Sally Haddock, DVM, Internist
St. Marks Veterinary Hospital
348 East 9th Street New York, NY
212-477-2688

When Sally Haddock was applying to vet schools in the
seventies, women were the exotics. Now things have
improved vastly -- women make up about 75 percent of vet
students -- and Haddock has become an expert at exotics,
particularly the avian kind. "Birds have great
personality," says the spirited blonde author of The
Making of a Woman Vet. "They're very curious." Injuries,
viral infections, and gastroenteritis are the most common
bird ills, but Haddock also deals with obsessive feather-
picking, bad diets ("Birds are seed junkies," she says),
and "way too many cat bites."

Because blood loss is a major issue with surgery on tiny
bird parts, St. Marks, with its laser-surgery machine, is
the place in the city for avian operations.

Other exotics that visit the clinic include bearded
dragons, potbellied pigs, hedgehogs, ferrets,
snakes, and hairy chinchillas ("the cutest things in the
whole wide world," says the vet). Soon, after
renovations, St. Marks hopes to accommodate fish. "If we
have to hospitalize fish," she says, "it would be handy to
have an aquarium."

Manhattan Bird Club

Posts on this thread, including this one

Parrot Clubs/Meetings: Emergencies and Your Pet Bird, 10/24/07, by luciedove.