How do birds survive with how sensitive they are to everything?

[Leah00]

Accidents happen and people warn others about them. People slip in the shower and die but we all still take showers.

It's kind of a live and learn thing. I, personally, lost a bird in a tragic and horrific happy hut accident and now I will never give any of my future birds one...but at the same time, I occasionally let my kids feed Yoshi cheese crackers.
So it ends up being about whatever you feel comfortable with.

 

[plumsmum2005]

Eating vegetable thin crackers right now, apparently they can't eat those.

Have you had a chance to look at the link I provided?

I'm beginning to smell an unpleasant odor..... :54:

LOL - Naw think it's all gone now. :11:

 

[plumsmum2005]

They can't have food with salt or sugar or pesticides which is 99.99% of the food that I have. They can't have pencils, apparently the erasers are toxic to them or something. I'm constantly panicking because I don't know if something is safe for them, it might have some kind of coating or something ridiculous that kills them.

It's ridiculous, I am terrified and I shelter my birds from absolutely everything because I don't know if it's potentially dangerous. I don't let them near blankets, anything with paint that comes off and I pretty much don't let them off of me while they are out of their cage because of fear that they'll get something dangerous and die. There is no such fear with dogs/cats....But how do birds even survive in the wild if they're so sensitive to absolutely EVERYTHING including drafts.

I don't let my birds touch anything other than their bird toys and myself. It's driving me crazy, I'd like to have my birds out 12 hours a day but I can't stare at them and make sure they don't touch anything for 12 hours. Sometimes I have other things to do. At least 90% of the things I look up are apparently harmful to them. Even certain types of tree branches are dangerous and if you do get the right kind it has to be sterilized or something? Tree branches in the wild aren't sterilized. I've even read that you aren't suppose to give them tap water unless you boil it, although there's no way that I'm going that far.

Giving the benefit of doubt. As mentioned before it is necessary to use bucket loads of common sense. Re the issue above, can you imagine a bird choosing to sit in a draft in the wild, perhaps it's part of a flock so snuggle up together or will just move to somewhere more suitable. This action is denied a caged bird and so has to put up with it unless it's owner has the foresight to ensure otherwise.