[HHFi]

This is absolutely incredible. I have 15 birds, from a parakeet up to two African grays and two cockatoos. PBFD is a horrible, contagious, incurable disease that all bird owners live in fear of. Many of us won't even buy perches or toys from bird fairs because there are other birds in the room that might have shed the virus on them. For these idiots at that zoo to set up an exhibit designed to attract bird owners, and then knowingly expose them to this disease should be a criminal act, or at least expose them to massive civil lawsuits.

While they're at it, why don't they just set up a petting zoo featuring cats with feline leukemia, pigs with worms and dogs with rabies?

[domenad]

By the way, for all of those birds you have, I heartily recommend the NY Times. Soaks it all up real nice I hear.

[HHFi]

If you want to know how devastating this disease is and just how stupid this zoo is being (birds with PBFD have to be quarantined for the REST OF THEIR LIVES!), here is one of many good web pages about it. If you want to have your heart broken, scroll down to the personal stories and read Laura's Story or the one about Tommy the African gray parrot: http://www.geocities.com/~calliefeather/pbfd.html