[birdsnreps]

please dont ever let your birds play anywhere where you even think there might be spiders!! i lost a blue and gold to a spider bite, im confident thats what it was. she was over a year old, perfectly healthy, never had any probs wtih her. then after an afternoon of hanging out on the back patio,that night she started loosing her balance and acting a little sick, then the next morning she started having horrible diarrhea and vomiting, and then suddenly she was gone, in like half a day :( i didnt even have time to do anything for her :( i didnt see any spiders in or around her cage, but we live right next to a creek and lots of bushy trees, and down where we live, black widows and brown recluses are common.