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Anonymous
I was in my local pet store and I noticed every single cage with a bird in it had a notice paper saying that none of the birds would be up for sale until sometime in April due to health observation or something like that. Now I can understand maybe quarantining a bird that was sick, but a 2 month lockdown on all bird sales. What gives?
>> Anonymous
>>210971
Where do you live? I saw the same thing in my local pet store.
>> Anonymous
>>210981
phoenix arizona
>> Anonymous
PEEPL GOT SICK
>> Anonymous
Dunno. You should ask them why. At least they're being responsible. Most pet stores just push sick animals onto unknowing customers.
>> tigerfeather !CrwtTbFNxQ
It has to do with the vendor that the store got the animals from. It's a huge vendor that services like 48 states. There was a slightly higher-than-normal amount of birds with psittacosis coming from that vendor (like 2%). People can catch it, but it's just an easily-treatable upper respiratory infection. Same for the birds, just give them a round of antibiotics and they're fine.

I agree though, I think that they are doing the responsible thing by not letting the birds get sold, and making sure they are all healthy.
>> MiMi
>>211008
This woman speaks the truth. ... Sorry, man. No women on the internets.

I'm a California Petsmart's bitch. All of our birds (and I suppose the rest of our vendors' birds in other stores) are essentially being 'quarantined' in their normal cages.

In Petsmart, our cockatiels, the birds the psittacosis problem originated with, are in the back in a much more sterile quarantine. All the birds are on medicated food, and plain water, nothing else. This will last until we get word from Corporate (and Corporate gets word from our vendor) that the problem has been eliminated.

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For the record, none of my store's birds are sick in the slightest. It's just precautionary. We keep our birds healthy all the time, and we're making sure it stays that way. It'll be worth the wait, if you're looking to purchase.