Goodbye my sweet boy Twigs

RavensGryf

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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.
 

Brittany741

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I am SO sorry. You've had a terrible go of it lately. I just want to give you a huge hug.

Sending all my love. I know it's been such a tough time for y'all lately and I'm hoping you catch a break soon.
 
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RavensGryf

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Thank you so much Brittany. I really appreciate it.
 

10i

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Sorry for your loss. He will be missed

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BIRDIGIRL

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So sorry for your loss..take care of yourself and dont go down the road of feeling guilt Twiggs would not want that for you he would want you to remember the good times and smile ...my Roger went the same way some months back in Jan and Im convinced he flys with the flock as their Guardian Angel and Twiggs too will be flyinging with your flock watching over them from Rainbow Bridge...fly free lovely Twiggs fly free :smile016:
 

GreatBlue320

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I'm so very sorry about your precious Twigs, Julie. Please try not to be hard on yourself for not being with him when he passed - you couldn't have possibly known this was going to happen.

Fly happy and free, Twigs
 

JerseyWendy

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NO!!! Julie, I am so very sorry! :( My heart is breaking for you here.

Fly free Twigs! You will be forever missed. :heart:
 

Doublete

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I'm sorry Julie. It's never easy.
 

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So sorry to read this. My condolences. My Maxie went the same way. Just.....gone.
Maybe they are playing together?
 

Piasa

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I am so sorry to hear this, Julie! My heart goes out to you. I know how hard you work to keep your little flock safe and healthy.

You have given Twigs a very loving and full life. He had human friends and friends of his own kind, an amazing house in a clean environment, lots of things to do. We all have a time limit here, and for Twigs I am sure his time was well spent with your family.

You are in my thoughts.
 

Birdman666

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Sorry for your loss.
 

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Aww! So sad to read this news. :(
 

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