just tainted my enjoyment of the movie. Birds' lungs are the size of kidney beans and their respiratory systems are very delicate, especially those that don't fly and never exercise their lungs. They cannot tolerate being around smoke. I felt so sorry for the birds in this film with all the smoke being blown in their faces!
shareBurt had an unlit Bugler most of the time around the birds, and the times that his and Telly's were lit the birds didn't budge an inch, they didn't seem to mind it.
shareI notice you give absolutely no reference for your claim regarding smoke & bird lungs.
COnsidering that no study has ever found any increased lung-related problems for those who worked in heavy-smoke environments back in the 20s, 30s, 40s, etc., when it was common to work in sweatshops & barely ventilated factories (and the smoking rate was about 30-40%!) ... you need to come up with a bit more than that.
There are numerous articles on the Internet in addition to just using plain old common sense. Here's just one of many:
http://www.petplace.com/birds/birds-and-toxic-fumes/page1.aspx
Coubotand:
It looked like Burt was making a concerted effort to blow the smoke away from the birds - most obviously to me when he was nursing the first bird he had, the sparrow - but you're absolutely right...I thought the same thing when I saw him around them with a lit cigarette.
smokehill retrievers:
I am no bird expert by any stretch, but I own 2 parrots, and it's a big no-no to smoke around them, especially in enclosed areas. But Coubotand is right there as well....it should be common sense. Just another aside to illustrate birds' smaller lung capacity: I've known people who've known people who lost their bird(s) when they were cooking with non-stick cookware and didn't return to the stove quickly enough and burned the teflon(?) off, creating fumes that wouldn't be nearly enough to hurt a human...but when the bird(s) breathed it in, they died.
These are all very basic things any bird owner must know, along with what foods/drinks can kill them (chocolate, caffeine, alcohol, avocado, eggplant, etc.)
"The things I do for love..." Jaime Lannister
Especially when Savalas is saying "my bird is sick and I don't know what's wrong with him" while blowing smoke right into his face from a few inches away.
"My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the Whale Rider."
Well smokers are just damn evil. What did'ya expect?
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Dick Laurent is dead.