A Cross post .......warning....

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I dont no if we get stuff from here..But it is just incase...Better safe then sorry....


Quote: "DO NOT FEED GRAPES FROM CHILE AT THIS TIME.

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Sterling from All Cape Parrot has lost 8 birds tonight. I am on the phone w/ him now. I will go into greater detail after trying to comfort him."

Quote: "Thank you for your prayers. We have lost Marmalade a M2 Sunny a U2 Lita a GSC Joe a U2 abigail a MSC Marly a U2 Tasha a U2 Marcy a Noble Macaw and squally a pionus. This has devastated us they all died with in Half hour of eating half a grape that were washed with anti bactirial soap and rinsed well. We are taking birds to vet in morning for necropsy and grapes to health department for testing as our 18 year old daughter got sick at the same time as birds dieing. they all died with in minutes of each other there was nothing we could have done we called 3 vets the fire department was here to check for CO2 the police were here also the animal cpntrol was here we are also working with the health department as this happened last year here on the cape with fruit from chile but last year it was people that got sick not birds that I know of. We did not know this till the fire department came.


Please don't feed fresh fruit till we fined out for sure what happened we can not say 100% it was the fruit but we will as soon as the lab work comes back. But for now we are 99% sure it was the grapes."

Please view the link below for complete details. The link below is a group of people who do not support breeding, buying, or selling of birds--please respect their agenda if youd decide to post.


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Natalie

[AussieBirds]

Wow thanks for the heads up Natalie, I don't know if we get fruit from there but boy it makes you wonder what the heck they were using on the grapes, Ill certainly be checking the labels from now on.

John

[waddles]

Hi, I have his link, his daughter too became sick 10mins after eating 3 of the grapes, she is now okay.

www.allcapeparrotrescue.com/index.html.

It is not up to date yet, he and his friends have been posting on other forums giving updates , I have had a hard time keeping track.

There is a very moving and beautiful memorial movie as well.

Hugs Pauline.

[jill]

That's scary, the only thing my sun conure will eat is grapes and passion fruit..I only buy grapes when there in season though, and I won't be buying any for a while now...But how would you know where they are from..Coles only say imported not where there from..I read the link then I found another on pestacides used on fruit and veges, which is also quite scary..

www.foodnews.org/reportcard.php

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It does make you wonder,about things.I had a look at that site Jill..Who would have through they would use Pesticides on potatoes...To eat or not to eat.....You canrnt even trust organic grown stuff...Best to stick with what you grow at home I think...I almost forgot...For those that feed dryed fruit...They to have been sprayed with Pesticides,before dryed....