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User Question
Hello Lisa I found your website on parakeets very helpful and I have one

or two questions about parakeets my first one is do budgies give

allergies? and my second is do budgies get along with dogs my dog is

friendly with other animal but I am not sure if a parakeet wood be scared

of him. another parakeets don’t give disease do they?

Lisa's Answer
I actually talk about parakeets with dogs on this page -

http://www.lisashea.com/petinfo/questions/a125

Sure, you could be allergic to parakeets. People can be allergic to newsprint, peanuts, styrofoam, you name it. Only you know what you are allergic to. But most people aren't allergic to parakeets.

As far as diseases go, it's not like your parakeet is roaming the woods to "catch something". You should ALWAYS take any new pet to a vet to get a check-up and make sure it starts out healthy. But if a vet says it is healthy, the chance of it mysteriously catching something while it sits in a room in your house is slim to none. And since you live in that house too, chances are you are the one who gave that disease to your pet!

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