cardinalMom
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- Feb 22, 2020
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Hello everyone,
I want to thank you for the advice you have shared with me as my family and I went out the journey with a our sweet cardinal Amadeus.
Some of you may remember that we first met Amadeus living at a pet store in Germany in November of 2019. He seemed fairly content but it didn't feel right to me to keep him living there with various tropical birds when we could provide him a nice aviary outdoors.
I have been living in Germany for almost eight years but I grew up in Wisconsin. Cardinals are amongst my favourite birds and I don't believe it was a mere coincidence that]at we met Amadeus just two days after my aunt passed away.
My husband, daughter and I had the beautiful opportunity to love and care for Amadeus for almost two years. He enjoyed living outdoors in a large aviary on our balcony. He feasted on garden worms and creatures brought to him daily, he felt the sunshine on his feathers and experienced snow in the winter. He also sang to other birds and enjoyed a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in season.
My favourite thing, as strange as this sounds, is how Amadeus would guard his food and was not shy about eating wasps in the summer time.
He came down with conjunctvitis in November abd this community was very helpful in helping us diagnose it. Thank you so much.
His swift illness and death was very unexpected. Last week we began to notice that he wasn't moving as much and we thought it might be because of hot temperatures outside. He did take a bath but his characteristic cheeping, hopping and 'batman dives' were gone. On Tuesday I noticed he wanted to sleep all the time and although he was eating he seemed to have no energy so after work my husband took him to the avian vet.
They did testing and determined that Amadeus did not have a parasite but told us if he did not show signs of improvement by the end of the week he needed to come back for an x-ray--he was too weak at that appointment. The vet was very concerned because his weight and muscle structure was clearly too low.
We began to administer the medicine immediately and on wednesday morning he was showing small signs of improvement. Wednesday afternoon my husband called me at work and told me the bad news: Amadeus died when my husband was trying to feed him his final worm---he slowly fell over.
We loved our ruby so much and were not ready to say goodbye. His empty aviary is still outside and it breaks my heart to see that there is no longer a little red pool ball sitting there.
The truth is we never knew how old or what kind of conditions Amadeus was born in. Over the last few months his feathers began to turn dark and some of them were even tinged in white. It could be he was already old. We would love to have kept him in the family for years to come but it was just his time
Some of you might remember that we tried to pair him with a female but was spooked and flew away---perhaps Amadeus was past his pairing prime.
Thank you so much Parrot community for your advice and kindness over the last two years.
I want to thank you for the advice you have shared with me as my family and I went out the journey with a our sweet cardinal Amadeus.
Some of you may remember that we first met Amadeus living at a pet store in Germany in November of 2019. He seemed fairly content but it didn't feel right to me to keep him living there with various tropical birds when we could provide him a nice aviary outdoors.
I have been living in Germany for almost eight years but I grew up in Wisconsin. Cardinals are amongst my favourite birds and I don't believe it was a mere coincidence that]at we met Amadeus just two days after my aunt passed away.
My husband, daughter and I had the beautiful opportunity to love and care for Amadeus for almost two years. He enjoyed living outdoors in a large aviary on our balcony. He feasted on garden worms and creatures brought to him daily, he felt the sunshine on his feathers and experienced snow in the winter. He also sang to other birds and enjoyed a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in season.
My favourite thing, as strange as this sounds, is how Amadeus would guard his food and was not shy about eating wasps in the summer time.
He came down with conjunctvitis in November abd this community was very helpful in helping us diagnose it. Thank you so much.
His swift illness and death was very unexpected. Last week we began to notice that he wasn't moving as much and we thought it might be because of hot temperatures outside. He did take a bath but his characteristic cheeping, hopping and 'batman dives' were gone. On Tuesday I noticed he wanted to sleep all the time and although he was eating he seemed to have no energy so after work my husband took him to the avian vet.
They did testing and determined that Amadeus did not have a parasite but told us if he did not show signs of improvement by the end of the week he needed to come back for an x-ray--he was too weak at that appointment. The vet was very concerned because his weight and muscle structure was clearly too low.
We began to administer the medicine immediately and on wednesday morning he was showing small signs of improvement. Wednesday afternoon my husband called me at work and told me the bad news: Amadeus died when my husband was trying to feed him his final worm---he slowly fell over.
We loved our ruby so much and were not ready to say goodbye. His empty aviary is still outside and it breaks my heart to see that there is no longer a little red pool ball sitting there.
The truth is we never knew how old or what kind of conditions Amadeus was born in. Over the last few months his feathers began to turn dark and some of them were even tinged in white. It could be he was already old. We would love to have kept him in the family for years to come but it was just his time
Some of you might remember that we tried to pair him with a female but was spooked and flew away---perhaps Amadeus was past his pairing prime.
Thank you so much Parrot community for your advice and kindness over the last two years.
