- Jan 19, 2014
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- Parrots
- Red Bellied Parrot /
Ruppell's Parrot /
Bronze Winged Pionus /
English Budgie
He is SO upset that he has to wear an e-collar! 
Last night, shortly after I posted about him coming to help me eat my burrito, I noticed a bit of blood on the ground. After examining everyone, I noticed that Griffin had blood on his toe. I got him in a towel and cleaned him up with peroxide. I could see just a tiny cut. It stopped bleeding, and he was his usual happy self and went back to playing. I thought that was it, and it was going to be okay.
Apparently, he had a damaged toenail too... I failed to see it last night with artificial lighting. By this morning, he had chewed the nail almost completely OFF, as it was splintered down to almost nothing, down to where it meets his toe with the bloody quick exposed! He kept chewing at it, and caused a pool of blood to drip the size of a quarter. That was it. He went to the emergency vet.
Griffin was a good little boy at the vet. They gave me an anti-inflamatory, and oral antibiotic and ointment, and sent him home in an e-collar big enough to engulf his entire body :52:. Curiously, the cost of this emergency visit was MUCH LESS expensive than his normal vet...
Well, he is NOT having the collar. He's making it his mission to destroy the thing and get it off as quickly as possible! It's a little too big, and he's able to get his lower mandible into the part around his neck, so he'll make short work of it I'm sure. I'll have to call my regular vet in the morning to see what alternative they might have to the cone style e-collar (or at least a smaller size).
Griffin usually goes over to Raven's large cage to play every night, but today Raven took one look at Griffin, and was apparently offended at the unsightly apparatus which was engulfing his little friend, and decided to attack him! Of course I was right there and removed Griffin within a split second. My poor boy is SO upset he has to stay home and play in his own smaller cage (at the bottom). I feel sorry for him, but we have to do what we have to do!
** HOW did this injury happen? I really am not sure enough to say. I was in the room during the time frame when it happened. I did not hear any screaming or sounds out of the ordinary.
Last night, shortly after I posted about him coming to help me eat my burrito, I noticed a bit of blood on the ground
. After examining everyone, I noticed that Griffin had blood on his toe. I got him in a towel and cleaned him up with peroxide. I could see just a tiny cut. It stopped bleeding, and he was his usual happy self and went back to playing. I thought that was it, and it was going to be okay. Apparently, he had a damaged toenail too... I failed to see it last night with artificial lighting. By this morning, he had chewed the nail almost completely OFF, as it was splintered down to almost nothing, down to where it meets his toe with the bloody quick exposed! He kept chewing at it, and caused a pool of blood to drip the size of a quarter. That was it. He went to the emergency vet.
Griffin was a good little boy at the vet. They gave me an anti-inflamatory, and oral antibiotic and ointment, and sent him home in an e-collar big enough to engulf his entire body :52:. Curiously, the cost of this emergency visit was MUCH LESS expensive than his normal vet...
Well, he is NOT having the collar. He's making it his mission to destroy the thing and get it off as quickly as possible! It's a little too big, and he's able to get his lower mandible into the part around his neck, so he'll make short work of it I'm sure. I'll have to call my regular vet in the morning to see what alternative they might have to the cone style e-collar (or at least a smaller size).
Griffin usually goes over to Raven's large cage to play every night, but today Raven took one look at Griffin, and was apparently offended at the unsightly apparatus which was engulfing his little friend, and decided to attack him!
Of course I was right there and removed Griffin within a split second. My poor boy is SO upset he has to stay home and play in his own smaller cage (at the bottom). I feel sorry for him, but we have to do what we have to do! ** HOW did this injury happen? I really am not sure enough to say. I was in the room during the time frame when it happened. I did not hear any screaming or sounds out of the ordinary.
