Hello everyone!
My conure Rio recently seems tired and under the weather. He was eating and drinking water, although he had some diarrhea. But he has this habit of narrowing his eyes as if he's falling asleep. We gave him baytril, and he's feeling much better now! He's flying around playing and his poops are fine, and his mood is fantastic! However, he still has drowsy eyes, though not as terrible as before. I'm curious as to why this occurs. His eyes arnt red or anything. (If his symptoms did become worse I would have taken him to the vet asap but I have baytril just in case because the vet is 2 1/2 hours away)
Last year we had the same thing happen but it was way worse. He was super uncoordinated and couldn’t perch. He has his mouth open and gasping for air and the drowsy eyes. And we took him to the emergency vet at 12 pm and they gave him oxygen and antibiotics and diagnosed him with having toxicity. We later found out it was from his cage and the bottom grate had rust. So we got him a whole other one and he’s been fine since then.
I’m just super paranoid but I decided to put him on baytril since his symptoms weren’t bad just the tiredness. Does anyone know why they close there eyes?
My conure Rio recently seems tired and under the weather. He was eating and drinking water, although he had some diarrhea. But he has this habit of narrowing his eyes as if he's falling asleep. We gave him baytril, and he's feeling much better now! He's flying around playing and his poops are fine, and his mood is fantastic! However, he still has drowsy eyes, though not as terrible as before. I'm curious as to why this occurs. His eyes arnt red or anything. (If his symptoms did become worse I would have taken him to the vet asap but I have baytril just in case because the vet is 2 1/2 hours away)
Last year we had the same thing happen but it was way worse. He was super uncoordinated and couldn’t perch. He has his mouth open and gasping for air and the drowsy eyes. And we took him to the emergency vet at 12 pm and they gave him oxygen and antibiotics and diagnosed him with having toxicity. We later found out it was from his cage and the bottom grate had rust. So we got him a whole other one and he’s been fine since then.
I’m just super paranoid but I decided to put him on baytril since his symptoms weren’t bad just the tiredness. Does anyone know why they close there eyes?