bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) (12/04/90)
In article <26425@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dragon@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sam Conway) writes: >I would dearly love to get my hands >on this jerk who came up with the "animals instinctively know when >you're trying to help them" garbage. No kidding! One of my canaries gets ingrown feathers. Some of the feathers are partally external ( sorry, I don't know the real terms ) and if I find them in time can be pulled out with a minimum of damage. If I miss one or if he gets a completely ingrown feather I have to take him to Reynoldsburg where Dr. Mohan, an Avian vet, performs surgery. This bird sees me as a monster. Every week or two I catch him just to sadistically pluck him and occasionally take him north to really be tortured. I do all of this sort of work so that he can at least trust my wife. It's really disturbing but necessary. As to non-avian vets, there is a vet in our county who has an extremely good reputation. When we noticed the first bump in our canary we took him there. This vet said that it was cancer and the bird should be put out of its misery. Fortunately we delayed and were told about Dr. Mohan. He told us that the only thing more common than ingrown feathers was mis- diagnosis by non-avian vets. This other vet told us that he sees this type of "cancer" all of the time. He doesn't know what he's doing and kills peoples birds for no good reason. I can understand why "normal" vets don't have the time to really understand birds but they have no right to act as if they do. Bob Church bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu