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YES!!! Birds absolutely can choke!!! We had a little budgie once that we rescued and treated for fatty liver disease for quite some time. I was so pleased to turn the little guy around and he was finally starting to enjoy good health. One evening I came in to check on the babies and he was laying on the floor of the cage, cold and dead. I took him to the vet the following morning for necropsy. The results? He had choked on a clump of seed that he had swallowed all at once. I sincerely did not want to believe the results, but have come to trust my vet to the ends of the earth. Still seems like such a freak thing to have happen to a bird.
-Anna
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BatToo, Loretta, Mars, PeggySue, Benny, Chrissy, Orbit, & PJ T2, DYHA, RLory, B&G Macaw, BE2, IRN, RLory, OWA
(Also Cockatiels: Cooper, Luke, GingerAle, Ash, Rio, Roxie)
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and wrong because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
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www.ABQParrots.org
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