AkridChaos
New member
- Aug 31, 2017
- 129
- 5
- Parrots
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Rescue Budgie: Snowball (blue/grey)
Normal Budgie: Oliver (yellow/green)
Black Capped Conure: Warbeak
Parrotlet: Lily, Rest In Peace
Canary-Winged Parakeet: Stryker
I have to ask, because Warbeak gave me a scare earlier today. He was eating food as I was changing water dishes, and as I came back into the room, as per usual, he got overly excited at my presence. He got so overly excited, that I worry it caused him to choke on what he was eating. He started bobbing his head around all crazy-like. Almost like regurgitation, which is what I thought it was at first but it seemed almost too violent. He repeated doing this motion until I got his water dish set in place, which he beelined for immediately. After gulping water, he started making this horrible squawking sound over and over nonstop. It wasnāt his fear call, but it was very similar in sound to it, just more panicked and fast repeating. Of course I knew at this point this is no regurgitation sequence, something is dead wrong. But I honestly didnāt know what to do. If birds choke, you canāt do a heimlich maneuver on them. I canāt smack his back because heās so small and fragile. What do you even do if birds really do choke? 5 seconds in and Iām just baffled on how to help him, Iām basically just staring at him in horror afraid for his life but unable to do anything. 10 seconds in, if he was choking on something, he managed to get it down or something because he made a really funny noise then started doing his little bird cough. But the poor guy was audibly wheezing for air after that, so I really think he was choking on something. But I never thought birds can choke. They just basically swallow things whole, they donāt have to chew their food. His actions tell me he was choking, but was he really? If he was, how do you even help your bird in a situation like that? One thing I learned is I have absolutely no experience in that, he easily couldāve died and there wouldāve been nothing I couldāve done to save him in this situation. Iāve never been so scared before.