ruffledfeathers
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- Aug 23, 2012
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- Parrots
- Gilbert Oliver, Blue Crown Conure; Georgie, Sun Conure (2/8/01-8/8/12) RIP little girl; Percy, budgie 1993-1999. RIP Pepito-spanish timbrado canary
I was at my friend's house (at the beach) this weekend. Gilbert had an awesome beach day yesterday and was his usual cheery self.
This morning as I was saying goodbye to him to head to the beach, I noticed he was on the floor in the corner of his cage. I picked him up and he was panting/breathing very heavily and looked sleepy. Totally abnormal, it almost seemed like there was some irritant in the air (but my friend has birds too and they were all fine). I brought Gil outside to get fresh air, but his very heavy breathing continued.
I threw all my stuff in the car and we flew home to his vet without even having an appointment. I got him on the phone on my way and he had to see me after his normal Saturday hours because we couldn't get there in time. Luckily on the way to the vet his breathing calmed down but he had been breathing hard for about 2 hours!
We did more blood tests and I had him give a long acting antibiotic just in case. He also gave me drops of an anti-inflammatory. He has nothing obviously wrong with him and that last problem he had with his skin is completely better now.
The vet mentioned even the possibility of allergic reaction to something but said there isn't a whole lot of information about allergies in parrots overall. (I told him over the past month, I thought he looked strangely 'winded' a couple times randomly, for just about a minute or two, then back to normal.)
Anyhow, we are home. That was frightening and bizarre. He was normal one minute (flying and talking this morning) and gasping the next.
Keep the little green monkey in your thoughts and prayers. I would love to have an absolute definite answer.
This morning as I was saying goodbye to him to head to the beach, I noticed he was on the floor in the corner of his cage. I picked him up and he was panting/breathing very heavily and looked sleepy. Totally abnormal, it almost seemed like there was some irritant in the air (but my friend has birds too and they were all fine). I brought Gil outside to get fresh air, but his very heavy breathing continued.
I threw all my stuff in the car and we flew home to his vet without even having an appointment. I got him on the phone on my way and he had to see me after his normal Saturday hours because we couldn't get there in time. Luckily on the way to the vet his breathing calmed down but he had been breathing hard for about 2 hours!
We did more blood tests and I had him give a long acting antibiotic just in case. He also gave me drops of an anti-inflammatory. He has nothing obviously wrong with him and that last problem he had with his skin is completely better now.
The vet mentioned even the possibility of allergic reaction to something but said there isn't a whole lot of information about allergies in parrots overall. (I told him over the past month, I thought he looked strangely 'winded' a couple times randomly, for just about a minute or two, then back to normal.)
Anyhow, we are home. That was frightening and bizarre. He was normal one minute (flying and talking this morning) and gasping the next.
Keep the little green monkey in your thoughts and prayers. I would love to have an absolute definite answer.
