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Post by bubbles on Jul 1, 2006 11:54:14 GMT 7
Yesterday I got home from going out and opened Herbies cage to let him out onto his stand. I also had with me a couple of friends who went into the lounge room and turned the heater on, whilst I was in the kitchen making Dinner. I went into the Lounge room to ask if anyone disliked chillis. Upon seeing me enter the room Herbie tried to follow me and instead slid and landed on the heater.
As you can imagine I was screaming and to make it worse Herbie clung to the heater and wouldnt let us pull him off. By this stage the heater had been turned off but was still hot.
Let this be a lesson make sure that heaters are never on if a bird is out and let your friends know this too.
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Post by Mark on Jul 1, 2006 15:19:42 GMT 7
We have a Sunbeam micre FURNACE heater (it is around $300 Expencive and small) but well worth every penny it does not get hot to touch it has a temp setting which cuts out when you desired temp is reached
If it tips it automaticly cuts out (switches off)
This is my recomendation to any one who has a heater in the bedroom of has pets or children
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Post by lutino on Jul 1, 2006 16:17:26 GMT 7
Very good advice bubbles, I have also experienced the dangers of heaters & birds  |
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Post by Peter on Jul 1, 2006 17:03:44 GMT 7
Wow, close call!
Very lucky!
Fans can also be dangerous..................
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Post by Silvercloud on Jul 2, 2006 19:11:06 GMT 7
Oh no! I hope Herbies feet are ok.
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Post by bubbles on Jul 3, 2006 12:04:28 GMT 7
Surprisingly his feet were fine but it was a very scary ordeal
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Post by Natenla on Jul 3, 2006 15:06:35 GMT 7
I make sure my heater is off evertime my birds are out. My tiel Scooter landed on it one day when it was off luckily, but it proved to my kids why not to turn it on when the birds are out!!
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Post by bubbles on Jul 3, 2006 15:52:23 GMT 7
I didnt know it was on, my friends had turned it on whilst i wasnt in the room, it was so scary.
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Post by Matt on Jul 3, 2006 16:20:47 GMT 7
Very lucky Bubbles! I always worry about heaters and fans, I once had a quail fly into a ceiling fan on full pelt, it didnt die but the smack into the far wall was terrifying. It reminds us how careful we have to be with pet birds!
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Post by USAJustin on Jul 10, 2006 15:52:29 GMT 7
We had a Scarlet baby fly into the ceiling fan this evening. Luckily the fan was on low and wasn't spinning fast but still managed to knock the poor thing for 6. He' was fine and more shocked at what happened. We were not so lucky last summer when we had a Parrotlet fly into a fast spinning fan.
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Post by USAJustin on Jul 10, 2006 15:53:38 GMT 7
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