Workshop in NY: "Emergencies and your Bird"

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Sunday, November 18


Emergencies and Your Pet Bird

1 - 4 pm

Meeting Place:

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

Dr. Sally Haddock*, DVM and Dr. Charisse Luk, 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: nybirdclub@yahoo.com

*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."

Cost: Free for members; guests: $5

Sponsored by the New York Bird Club
New York Avian Animal Rights : Exotic Animals : Wild Birds Preservation