- Jan 19, 2014
- 14,247
- 222
- Parrots
- Red Bellied Parrot /
Ruppell's Parrot /
Bronze Winged Pionus /
English Budgie
My sweet, littlest flock member is gone. Just a few hours earlier I observed Twigs flying around active and appearing healthy as usual. There was no sign of trauma, nothing in the cage amiss, nothing in the house either, as the other birds are fine.
Again, as with the loss of Twigs' first bonded partner, I feel the same guilt that I did not 'see' him in his last hours, and he had crawled down to the bottom of the cage and passed away, alone. Mink was in their double flight cage sitting on a favorite swing like nothing was wrong. But no humans were in the room this evening to see him, and I feel so terribly sad about that. I was in the other room with the parrots so that they could have their evening out of cage time.
In the middle of April, Twigs seemed a little 'off', so I took him to his vet right away as soon as I saw the first sign of any thing wrong. The vet did culture swabs and gave an antibiotic injection. The result of the swabs confirmed that she had given Twigs the right meds for the slight bacterial infection. The injection was supposed to last for a week. At the end of the week, sure enough, Twigs was up and energetic, singing and screaming once again like the happy and feisty little guy he was. He has been recovered for almost a couple weeks now. This is why I was in absolute shock when I found him on the bottom of the cage when I went to put him and Mink to bed.
I just can't believe this
. I am so terribly sad, and shocked.
Again, as with the loss of Twigs' first bonded partner, I feel the same guilt that I did not 'see' him in his last hours, and he had crawled down to the bottom of the cage and passed away, alone. Mink was in their double flight cage sitting on a favorite swing like nothing was wrong. But no humans were in the room this evening to see him, and I feel so terribly sad about that. I was in the other room with the parrots so that they could have their evening out of cage time.
In the middle of April, Twigs seemed a little 'off', so I took him to his vet right away as soon as I saw the first sign of any thing wrong. The vet did culture swabs and gave an antibiotic injection. The result of the swabs confirmed that she had given Twigs the right meds for the slight bacterial infection. The injection was supposed to last for a week. At the end of the week, sure enough, Twigs was up and energetic, singing and screaming once again like the happy and feisty little guy he was. He has been recovered for almost a couple weeks now. This is why I was in absolute shock when I found him on the bottom of the cage when I went to put him and Mink to bed.
I just can't believe this
. I am so terribly sad, and shocked.
