Betrisher
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- Jun 3, 2013
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- Parrots
- Dominic: Galah(RIP: 1981-2018); The Lovies: Four Blue Masked Lovebirds; Barney and Madge (The Beaks): Alexandrines; Miss Rosetta Stone: Little Corella
Some of you will remember me and my darling old galah, Dominic, whom I inherited from my Dad. Dom had a fairly awful life until he came to live with us and responded very well to a new cage, new food and a better way of life. He's a feisty old bugger who bites like a steel trap and who hates ladies and red hair in that order.
During his bad old days, Dom developed huge lipomas from being fed a diet of sunflower seed. It seems one of these has turned into a sarcoma which is threatening his life. It's pressing on major nerves that govern movement and sensation in his feet and it's using up all his body reserves so that he lost a massive amount of weight over just a couple of days.
We often acknowledge that birds are usually very sick before we pick up on their symptoms and this is a good example of that. So Dommie is fighting for his life tonight. *If* he can survive the initial stabilising treatments and gain some weight, the vet *might* be able to remove the cancerous growths. Dom isn't ready to die yet and we're certainly not ready to lose him.
If you pray, will you please pray that he might respond to the treatments. If not, will you please send healing thoughts his way? I can't believe the Universe wants this brave old bird to die like this!
Betrisher
During his bad old days, Dom developed huge lipomas from being fed a diet of sunflower seed. It seems one of these has turned into a sarcoma which is threatening his life. It's pressing on major nerves that govern movement and sensation in his feet and it's using up all his body reserves so that he lost a massive amount of weight over just a couple of days.
We often acknowledge that birds are usually very sick before we pick up on their symptoms and this is a good example of that. So Dommie is fighting for his life tonight. *If* he can survive the initial stabilising treatments and gain some weight, the vet *might* be able to remove the cancerous growths. Dom isn't ready to die yet and we're certainly not ready to lose him.
If you pray, will you please pray that he might respond to the treatments. If not, will you please send healing thoughts his way? I can't believe the Universe wants this brave old bird to die like this!
Betrisher
