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Hello Ive been doing research for a while now because i want to get a Green cheeked conure and i have two specific questions that i don't think anyone asked before, and a simple teflon question.


1) I live in New York City-Brooklyn and there is an avian vet that i found which has a really good reputation but the only way for me to get there is either 1-swim across the Hudson river 2- walk across a bridge lol or 3- take the subway and no right now we don't own a car.
The thing is i'm worried that if i take my bird on the subway with me it will die.. not too many states have subways so i don't know how to explain. Subways are polluted oftentimes they do construction work once in a while and of course there are rats running around on the tracks, it's really noisy and who knows what germs people have in the train all breathing each others' breath and underground air. God i made myself feel sick from thinking what i have to go through every day.
But there are definitely people that own birds here so i don't know how they do it, is it safe? or will it definitely kill my bird because i want to do yearly check ups to see if he/she is healthy.


2)How do you take your bird to the vet when let's say it's snowing like crazy without him/her freezing to death. I bet the majority of you probably have cars but my mom and i don't because she is cheap(and she does get paid really well) lol and we have public transportation.


3)So I live in a apartment building and there is a subway under us and when it goes by you can't hear it, but mostly everything vibrates a little so if there is something metal like a cage standing it will sure make a bit clinging. My question is, will my bird if i bring him/her home for the first time have a heart attack or panic attack if every 20 minutes everything vibrates a bit?


4)The Teflon question, again my mom's cheap and she will have a panic attack if something unnecessary is bought so she won't replace all the cookware, but i could buy one pan where i can do major cooking on that's not made with Teflon.
So would it be fine if whenever i'm cooking something i move the cage with my bird to my room close the door and open the windows to the kitchen and livingroom? If so how long should i wait till i can bring him back to the livingroom, or will the moving back and forth stress my bird?
and during wintertime i will definitely open the windows too, sometimes it gets so hot we have to.