happycat
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Wow. A lot of stuff happened today and I feel so bad about it! Well, today we were bringing him to get his nails trimmed and, I admit, I am awful at grabbing Kirby. I'm always too scared to grab him quickly like everyone does (scared of hurting him, not him hurting me) and that fear ended with a very hurt foot. I eventually grabbed him, and was bringing him towards his carrier. I don't really remember what happened because it happened so quickly, but I think I let him go a little bit, and banged him into the iron bed frame. Afterwards he was limping and falling. We took him to get trimmed and he couldn't grip with his left foot. Then we took him to the vet. They gave us medicine and said it should heal within the next couple of days, and if not we should take him again to get X-rays. That was reassuring because seeing my baby bird hurt like that, because of me, was pretty darn scary!
The vet said we should put him in a terrarium but its 10:00 at night and we really needed to get him to bed so we just used his cage. (the other vet said it was okay too) but its way too big. For about 15 minutes he was climbing to the top of the cage trying to find his hut where it usually was and had a very shocked expression to find out it wasn't there. He was still very determined to sleep up high however! (I was impressed to see him even climbing that much, even though he had trouble) He half fell half flew to the bottom a few times and finally he went in his hut on the bottom of the cage. We had a towel on the cage to discourage him to go up high.
Right now he is sleeping. He has been a lot less energetic, for instance letting me pet his belly when he used to fly away, but thats understandable for a hurt/broken leg. He has been flying around a lot and looks like he is attempting to be energetic. He also ate some pellet crumbs. They are shaped in little balls which he obviously can't pick up so I have to crumble them.
*PHEW* Glad he's okay but wow do I feel bad for him! I'll have to find a way for him to not climb his cage tomorrow.
The vet said we should put him in a terrarium but its 10:00 at night and we really needed to get him to bed so we just used his cage. (the other vet said it was okay too) but its way too big. For about 15 minutes he was climbing to the top of the cage trying to find his hut where it usually was and had a very shocked expression to find out it wasn't there. He was still very determined to sleep up high however! (I was impressed to see him even climbing that much, even though he had trouble) He half fell half flew to the bottom a few times and finally he went in his hut on the bottom of the cage. We had a towel on the cage to discourage him to go up high.
Right now he is sleeping. He has been a lot less energetic, for instance letting me pet his belly when he used to fly away, but thats understandable for a hurt/broken leg. He has been flying around a lot and looks like he is attempting to be energetic. He also ate some pellet crumbs. They are shaped in little balls which he obviously can't pick up so I have to crumble them.
*PHEW* Glad he's okay but wow do I feel bad for him! I'll have to find a way for him to not climb his cage tomorrow.