Well I went to visit my breeder friend who had the fire. She is known in her area and many times will find birds dropped at her place. She had a family stop by and give her a black headed caique. They thought he was around 5 to 8 yrs old. He has been passed around the family, the first owners (in the same family) gave him up after a year or so when he bit their son and the brat flung him against a wall!
He has never been around other birds, was in a deplorable rusty cage with filthy rope perches and sticks from outside. He has been fed large parrot seed mix....getting a clear picture on this poor babies past?
He has a slight scissor beak... now whether this is hereditary, poor hand feeding as a baby, or poor diet as an adult I can't be sure. The slight nature of it has me thinking it is diet related and the fact that he had no real chewable toys or pedicure perches may have contributed.
So he came home with me. I was thinking I might just get him in shape and find him a good home. However I took him to the vet today and during the beak trim he had a very bad stress induced seizure. It broke my heart and solidified his place here with me. My husband says he did it knowing it would pull my heart strings and ensure that he stays here lol! He is SUPER sweet and even after the vet visit was blowing kisses and talking and being so loving. He says he is a pretty pretty bird...a lot!
He had major testing done and other than lack of good muscle development all seems fine of course I have to wait on the testing. I was afraid he would be reluctant to eat chop since he is used to such a garbage diet but he ate so well this morning for breakfast that he looked like he had a bib on his crop was so full.
The vet wants to see him in another month to work on the beak again and next time they will give him a little birdie Valium ahead of time so we don't have a repeat of today.
He got a new big cage, a new name and apparently a new mom!
So here is Meegosh....
He has never been around other birds, was in a deplorable rusty cage with filthy rope perches and sticks from outside. He has been fed large parrot seed mix....getting a clear picture on this poor babies past?
He has a slight scissor beak... now whether this is hereditary, poor hand feeding as a baby, or poor diet as an adult I can't be sure. The slight nature of it has me thinking it is diet related and the fact that he had no real chewable toys or pedicure perches may have contributed.
So he came home with me. I was thinking I might just get him in shape and find him a good home. However I took him to the vet today and during the beak trim he had a very bad stress induced seizure. It broke my heart and solidified his place here with me. My husband says he did it knowing it would pull my heart strings and ensure that he stays here lol! He is SUPER sweet and even after the vet visit was blowing kisses and talking and being so loving. He says he is a pretty pretty bird...a lot!
He had major testing done and other than lack of good muscle development all seems fine of course I have to wait on the testing. I was afraid he would be reluctant to eat chop since he is used to such a garbage diet but he ate so well this morning for breakfast that he looked like he had a bib on his crop was so full.
The vet wants to see him in another month to work on the beak again and next time they will give him a little birdie Valium ahead of time so we don't have a repeat of today.
He got a new big cage, a new name and apparently a new mom!
So here is Meegosh....
