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Originally Posted by PowerBBS
1) 10) Tobacco:
You don't necessarily feed these, but tobacco is on this list because your birds will unwillingly consume it if you smoke around them. Smoke will painfully kill your birds. Please take this seriously. Do not smoke around your birds, or in the house that your birds live in. Birds' lungs are far smaller than humans and withstand a whole lot less. Birds that are exposed to smoke suffer breathing and respiratory problems, which can lead to behavioral problems, feather plucking, other illness and death. Birds naturally do not exhibit signs of bad health and will suffer for a long time before the symptoms are present. By the time a bird looks ill, the matter is serious and most often non-curable. Avoid tobacco around your birds, completely.
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I know someone that has a too that smokes heavily in the room the bird lives in. The bird plucks and screams. I wish there was some way I could convince her that she should not smoke around the bird let alone in the same room. When I have visited her, it's hard to be in the room because the smoke bothers me so I wonder what it does to the bird. The whole room reeks of smoke.
Actually, the bird is not a happy bird. It's only let out of the cage once a day in the morning and spends the rest of his time sitting in a cage in a smoke filled room. I can't tell you how sorry I feel for that bird.