Fern Van Sant at For the Birds

The Cupertino Courier | 0547 | November 23, 2005:


. Van Sant has spent more than 20 years working with her feathered friends, and it’s her mission in life to teach people how to treat them. Touted by some as the best bird doc around, she’s got a clinic full of squawking fowl and a loyal following of bird owners. Van Sant even flew to Louisiana to help save the birds there after Hurricane Katrina. She will take on any bird with any problem.

Nice piece on Fern Van Sant, of For the Birds. Fern’s been my bird vet for about as long as I’ve owned birds, and I can’t recommend her highly enough. When my first cockatoo, Morgan, started getting sick, Fern took it personally that we couldn’t keep her healthy, and fought like crazy to figure out what was going on (it turned out, after we lost her, to be a case of Polyoma that hid from the tests, where Morgan was basically getting just enough reduction in her immune system to allow her to keep catching bugs). Fern bought us at least a year that we otherwise wouldn’t have had. And when Tatiana ended up with Zinc poisoning, Fern and her crew were great at helping us get it under control and Tatiana back to whatever we laughingly call normal around this house…..

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