By the end of the afternoon, yesterday, Amigo was crawling all over his cage bars, using his right foot, also. I had him out and sitting with me a lot, having him step up, step down. I did an in depth, pulled every feather back to look for punctures, pressed every millimeter of his leg area, (looking for tenderness), noticed none, although he was loving every second of the attention! He has a slight puffiness around the ankle bone? The joint where the feathers meet the foot. He's using it a lot more comfortably than yesterday, he'll stretch it back under his wing, like normal, when stretching, and just plain old using it more.
I know you all probably think I'm being funk mama by not rushing him to the vet. If I felt that the leg was broken, cut in any way, in more pain than he appears to be in, I would be there in a heartbeat with him. The fact that the drive to his vet is an hour and half away, each way, would be more stress on him. I'm watching him closely, keeping him in the house and he's REALLY pissed off about it, Iknow he would rather be out and about patrolling his neighborhood. He's eating well and still maintaining his personality.
I seriously think he only twisted it. If it didn't look like he was improving, we would be on the road.
