Keep birds out of the kitchen
Move birds away before cooking. Smoke and fumes from overheated cookware, including non-stick surfaces, can be dangerous.
- No bird in the cooking area
- Do not leave cookware heating empty
- Ventilate without aiming a draft at the cage
Treat scented and sprayed products as exposure
Do not use candles, diffusers, perfume, aerosol cleaner, or insect spray in the bird's room. A pleasant scent is not evidence of safety.
Write down any change
Record the product, start time, ventilation, and where the bird was. Keep packaging if an exposure may have occurred.
Breathing difficulty cannot wait
Move the bird to clean air without stressing it and call an avian clinic immediately for open-mouth breathing, tail bobbing, collapse, or sudden weakness. Do not give home remedies.