TEFLON

I'm new to this group so this might have been discussed earlier.

I had a red lored Amazon for 8 years. She was exceptionally friendly
and loved to play games and "smooch". :) The night before
Valentine's Day, 1989, we used a new teflon coated wok for the first
time. The apartment was not large and Baby was one room away from the
kitchen. After dinner we found her on the floor of her cage dead.
This was unbelievable as she had been playing and talking up a storm
only minutes before. You can't imagine the shock and hurt unless
you've lost your loved one. It was a few months later that I was
reading in some bird magazine about the dangers of teflon FOR BIRDS,
not humans, dogs, cats, etc. Now I would attribute Baby's death to
the new teflon coated wok.

Beware.

dd

Welcome to the group. I'm glad you shared your tragic story. This has
indeed been discussed before, but we always get one or two folks who chime
in calling it a "myth" and citing the absence of any first-hand accounts.
Sorry for your loss -- I'm sure it still hurts.


"THE Old Man" <ddale1232 RemoveThis @bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I'm new to this group so this might have been discussed earlier.
>
> I had a red lored Amazon for 8 years. She was exceptionally friendly
> and loved to play games and "smooch". :) The night before
> Valentine's Day, 1989, we used a new teflon coated wok for the first
> time. The apartment was not large and Baby was one room away from the
> kitchen. After dinner we found her on the floor of her cage dead.
> This was unbelievable as she had been playing and talking up a storm
> only minutes before. You can't imagine the shock and hurt unless
> you've lost your loved one. It was a few months later that I was
> reading in some bird magazine about the dangers of teflon FOR BIRDS,
> not humans, dogs, cats, etc. Now I would attribute Baby's death to
> the new teflon coated wok.
>
> Beware.
>
> dd