He's free! :)

[kentstar]

Finally, finally, Sunny my sun conure is now free of his "necklace"! He was sooo happy as soon as the vet took it off! He started clicking too when we put him back in his cage without the collar on. lol
I do have to say he is quite perturbed at me though, probably because I'm the one that had to scoop him up all the time to take him back down from climbing the cage when his collar was on.
He is so happy to be able to climb up on his perches once again and I'm happy for him.

 

[suebee]

awww what was his collar for??

 

[oled]

Happy days are hear again

 

[kentstar]

http://www.parrotforums.com/conures/13081-sun-conure-hurt-foot-need-advice.html

Here's the link to the previous post about it. He cut his foot. I don't know how, could of been on a perch? He had to wear this collar for about 6 weeks. I know he hated it!

 

[kentstar]

Well, it's back to the doctor tomorrow morning. His foot looks red and quite irritated right now. I don't know if he hurt it again, picked at it, or what. It's not bleeding (as of yet, but it's tender), so back we go. I hope his foot is ok! Poor guy!
I also hope he is ok overnight until we can get him to the vet.

 

[roxynoodle]

I'm sorry to hear. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

 

[Mayden]

Thinking of you both, maybe he just needs to take it easy for a while with that foot. I wonder what could be causing the problem for him :/

 

[BillsBirds]

Oh, poor guy. E collars are so funny looking on them! Hope things work out for him.

 

[kentstar]

The vet said that she thinks that he has a small pocket of infection that we didn't get all of from last time, in his toe bone. He is now on antibiotics too. Hope it gets it all! Poor guy doesn't want to eat much at all or drink much. I am worried about that too. He pretty much stays in the corner area of his cage under a make shift "tent" that we devised for him out of a couple of comfy perches and a piece of bath towel. He is supposed to stay on the bottom of the cage until his foot heals.

 

[roxynoodle]

You may have to try to give him hand feeding formula from a syringe. If he won't take it, and things start getting serious, the vet can actually put it directly into the crop and give him fluids with a needle. My vet did that for my Grey when she first got sick with a bacterial infection. She also told me if she wasn't eating in the morning I should bring her back for another meal that way. Thankfully she did eat on her own.

I'll be thinking of you and your bird. Is the infection actually in the bone? I hope not as that can be very serious. I wish you both all the best that he recovers soon.

 

[kentstar]

He's back in the collar again! Ugh! Poor thing! I can't figure out why he's doing this! The vet took blood and found no infections, no problem with his kidney or liver function levels either. Hmmm... She said either arthritis maybe or just a habit now. Oh great! How can I get him out of the "habit" of nawing on his foot??? He does it with rythmn too about every 2 months or so, like clockwork. This is getting expensive!