03/13/2025
These kinds of questions always break my heart and leave me feeling sad for the rest of the day if not longer. As I look at these beautiful sweet babies that I'm holding and feeding and wiping their little beaks and changing their bedding and rubbing their bellies before bedtime, for some people they're just a number and the cheaper, the better 😣 That shows the attitude people will have towards their bird. People like this don't want to spend much so that when they get tired of the pet, they don't have to regret paying much money for it. This is not a question that someone asks knowing they are getting a family member for 15+ years.
Avian and exotic vet costs can easily go into thousands. If you cannot afford the pet, how do you plan to care for them? Are you just going to let the bird die? 😖 Tiki's foot injury cost us $1500. Mango's yeast overgrowth cost us $2500. And those were not even serious illnesses, just a couple of xrays and tests. Any animal will need vet at some point in their life and that has to be a serious consideration before adopting.
