Hello,

 

I would like to put my budgies downstairs while Im at work, which will start next week. I know that you are not suppose to put them in the kitchen for many reasons, mostly teflon and hot pots.

 

But, the downstairs is really open, so the living room/den/kitchen/and eating area are like one big huge room with no doors. What then?

 

 

How far away should budgies be from say the stove? SHould some harmfull teflon fumes be present, I dont want my budgies facing horible results.

 

Currently they are in my room, that way I know they are safe. I spend the majority of my time in my room with them, but I end up being their only company. Is this mean?

 

My moms friends budgies are just off of the kitchen, and she tells me that its mean to keep my guys up in my room. I tryed to explain that Teflon WILL kill them. She told me I was wrong, that her birds had not died yet, and that Teflon was only bad if you used it A LOT (As in comercial kitchen).

 

What do you think?

How would you better explain to someone why they cant be by the kitchen?

Edited July 3, 200520 yr by zoeandkiwi

Zoe, this is a good link, I think it may be an idea for your friend to read it! You will find it quite useful aswel Im sure If you scroll down, you will come to the section specifying teflon.

Anne

http://tm.wc.ask.com/r?t=c&s=a&id=30787&sv...alth/alerts.htm

Blinkie's in the lounge room because that's where we always are so he always has people around. The kitchen and the lounge room are joined by an arch thing so it's very open but he's on one side and the stoves on the other side as far away as possible and the fan sucks up all the stink from cooking before it gets far.

My parents have a large kitchen diner and we had a budgie living in the far end of that for all 18 years of his life. I currently live in a one bedroom flat with a small kitchen/ lounge area and louey's cage is on the far side by the window. The teflon thing is something i've worried about but If i accidently burn something i open that window straight away and will move him into the bedroom if necessary. So far no harm has come to him. As far as i can tell its when teflon burns that it becomes dangerous.

I read somewhere that teflon becomes dangerous very quickly, it doesn't necessarily have to be burning. I'll have to dig up the source of that info again, I can't think of it off the top of my head.

I threw out all my teflon. I felt if it was that dangerous, did I really want to be eating food cooked on it? So, luckily, not a problem for me! But, of course, not everyone can throw their pots away! I must admit mine were old and needed replacing anyway!

I heard that Teflon can cause cancer in humans, so our family has always used cast iron and stainless steel. When we got our birds, we threw out our nonstick waffle maker and bought a nonTeflon one(they are hard to find, we ended up with an older one from ebay). Also, I have heard some ovens have Teflon in them and can become deadly to birds if you set them to cleaning mode.

I'd say in the same house is too close, but that's the paranoid in my talking. Leo is in the kitchen/dining room which is connected to our living room, so as soon as I heard about teflon I threw the one teflon pan we have out and forbade mom from getting any more. Unless you absolutely have to cook with teflon for some reason, I'd suggest storing it away or tossing it.