It seems like every pet shop you go into has budgies. And I have pretty much never seen a pet shop without budgies with problems of some sort(assuming that they sell budgies of course :budgiedance: ).

 

One of my budgies has scaly leg mites (trying to get hold of some Ivermectin as I have tried with paraffin oil with no results) right now. She has had the mites once before which we treated and has only recently gotten them again :budgiedance: It seems to be a fairly simple disease to treat, if you do it in the early stages.

 

BUT

 

Don't you hate it when you walk in to a pet shop and see a cage of budgies, with barely enough room to perch, dirty water and a food bowl with nothing but seed hulls in it???

One of the most common things I can see in pet shop budgies is scaly face - birds who could have easily been treated and cured of the problem if the pet shop staff kept a spare bottle of Ivermectin or something to treat them with. The birds have over-long beaks and crusts all over their feet....If I could I would be tempted to take them home and get a vet to look at them. I just wish that the pet shops didn't only care about the MONEY - they shouldn't be selling animals if they can't take care of them!!!

 

I haven't had a good experience with pet shops but that probably doesn't mean that there are NO good pet shops ------- surely there are some people who actually CARE about the birds they sell.

 

WHY DON'T THEY CARE??? :question:I guess you wouldn't be running at a profit if you had to pay vet bills for some poor little budgie you bought for $5 but they should try to treat what they can by themselves rather than leaving the poor things to suffer in their tiny cage, probably infecting all the other birds with whatever it has.

I'm probably repeating myself a lot here but I can't see why they can't be bothered. This is why I am annoyed with pet shops, especially for not treating budgies with scalyface as it can easily be done. :budgiedance:

 

As you say easily treated. They should use spot on and remove them from the public area for a fortnight until they show signs of healing. Be brave........educate every petshop you see doing the wrong thing, and say it LOUDLY so they are forced to act and so customers hear.

Its probably because they have no idea that its scaly face! The amount of uneducated people selling animals is ridiculous!!!

I went into a petshop today which had an axolotl with fungus over its spine which had eaten into the flesh. So I asked about it and was pleasantly surprised. She told me that it used to be worse and they had been treating it with Melafix (melachite green) and he is improving quite well. She was very kindly spoken and knew her stuff, so I was quite happy. The wound looked quite old too as in it had been healing for a while.

It's nice to know that some shop owners know how to look after their animals :hi:

The pet shops aound here aren't to bad as I have sold some of my culls there, not many but a few and one time I had a hen who was molting and her cere was two tone and it was funny the owner looked at her and said I can't take her as she has scaley face and I smiled and said that is fine I am please that you look for things like that but she doesn't she is molting and all my birds are treated regularly for scaly mite,

But I was happy to take her home.

To be honest I have never had scaley mite in my aviary and have never seen it until 2 months ago at a budgie meeting one of the members ther had a bird with it.