John: Hello, cockatiel lovers. Our pet bird enthusiast of all kinds for that matter. My name is John and I'll be the host for this set of netcast. We try to look after our birds, but sometimes shit happens and when it does, it's better to be prepared than not prepared.
This series of videos is going to cover the basics of Avian First Aid. Dr. Pam Gordy is going to tell us all about how to look after our pet birds in case of emergency. She is the one that looks after my birds Tica and Amanda, two umbrella cockatiels. Our local pet rescue association put on a seminar recently all about Avian First Aid and Dr. Gordy was the speaker. This is where I got the footage from.
Episode: 1 Introducing Dr. Pam Gordy
Ms. Bell: Hi everybody. Thank you so much for coming today. I would like to introduce Dr. Pam Gordy from the Riverbend Veterinary Clinic. She has been kind enough today to come and give the presentation to teach us about first aid for parrots. What we would do in emergency, in case where our birds should unfortunately have some sort of accident or if it's sign of illness, some actions to go to that right way, but of course please remember that this is just initial first aid. This still is very important that once you hav given your bird first aid that you get it to see an avian veterinary as soon as possible, okay. Then along to Dr. Gordy.
Dr. Pam Gordy: Hi, everyone. As Ms. Bell mentioned I am Pam Gordy. I practice in Riverbend Veterinary Clinic. I graduated from veterinary school in 1984 and then six months in Daven (ph) and then about so practice. So, I don't have a job so I moved to the general veterinary hospital, where I worked from 1985 to 1990 and that's where I first start of getting interested in birds, somewhat by default. I was the newest veterinary in there and the father and son at this were on the practice had 50 clientele and didn't like birds much anyway, so whenever a client comes with a bird, they said give it to the new vet.
So, I for instance started doing this for a while, when I trained in veterinary school. It isn't like today where they have exotics, special key rotations that you can take. Our training was predominantly agricultural birds, chickens, turkeys etcetera and the medicine you did on them was, if the flock would say, you kill the worst one. You send that to the pathologist, you got your diagnosis and you treat with the wrath. This was not very effective for pet birds and -- oh we did have half-an-hour lecture on. So, I joined the association of Avian Veterinarians in 1986 not been a member ever since and attending conferences all around North America and get their publications and they have a good website and stuff now that computers are the norm.
So, that's how I got interested and then it just kind of grew from there and then started to enjoy it and got a little better doing single word medicine, instead of lot medicine.
So, in presentation today, Ms. Bell asked to talk about first aid. So, we are going to -- I've broken it into two parts. The first part I am talking about first aid in general, and then I am going to go over some specific emergencies, common ones that we normally see and how to apply the first aid principles that we talked about and then we have got an assortment of demo birds and first aid kits and items that might be in -- types of the bandage material and that sort of thing.
John: The next episode will be about being prepared for an emergency. What's the first step in any emergency. Be prepared.
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