The following signs or symptoms shown by your pet require urgent emergency treatment.

If you are worried about your bird please contact us by phone: 03 9416 3100.

 

Examples of emergencies:

• Seizures 

• Unconscious 

• Not able to stand or stay on perch, sitting on the bottom of the cage 

• Not eating or defecating for >24 hours 

• Open mouth breathing with or without tail bobbing 

• Anything poking out of their bottom 

• Bleeding from a blood feather or elsewhere

• Bitten/attacked by a cat or dog or any trauma 

• Straining to pass poo or eggs 

• Broken beaks 

 

Seek care urgently:

• Any seemingly unwell bird

• Quiet or lethargic 

• Reduced appetite 

• Vomiting or regurgitation 

• Diarrhoea or a change in droppings 

• Sneezing or coughing 

• Swollen eyes 

• Changes to eggs 

• Feather plucking or feather loss that has just started 

• Not using a limb  

• Blackened toe/s