I thought I would write this thread about an amazon I have who suffered a scary injury.
One day a few weeks ago I went to open the sliding glass door behind my parrots' cage. My bluefront amazon, Misty, attacked his mate, Angel, a mexican redheaded amazon. They were a pretty well bonded pair, Misty the male, Angel the hen. Misty has come into breeding season early this year and he was displaying displaced aggression. Angel fell onto the floor of their cage onto her back. I saw her fall and she could not get up.
I unlocked the cage and went to her and picked her up. She could not use one of her legs at all. It stayed pulled up behind her even though the rest of her seemed fine. I let her sit on the couch cusions for a while hoping she would get better, but she didn't. So after a couple hours I called the vet.
I took her in at 4:00 pm and Doc did four shots of x rays and everything looked fine, but she still couldn't stand up at all. Doc gave me some anti-inflamitory meds.
I started giving her the meds and keeping her in a large ceramic bowl filled with carefresh. For the first couple days she stayed in the bowl and ate her food. She had to be held up to drink several times a day, but had a good appetite. Eventually she started pulling herself out of the bowl and I had to put her into a cockatiel cage.
Now she is climbing all over that cage and getting some of her nastiness back. I am amazed at her recovery. She has almost gotten all of her use of her leg back and I am so happy.
One day a few weeks ago I went to open the sliding glass door behind my parrots' cage. My bluefront amazon, Misty, attacked his mate, Angel, a mexican redheaded amazon. They were a pretty well bonded pair, Misty the male, Angel the hen. Misty has come into breeding season early this year and he was displaying displaced aggression. Angel fell onto the floor of their cage onto her back. I saw her fall and she could not get up.
I unlocked the cage and went to her and picked her up. She could not use one of her legs at all. It stayed pulled up behind her even though the rest of her seemed fine. I let her sit on the couch cusions for a while hoping she would get better, but she didn't. So after a couple hours I called the vet.
I took her in at 4:00 pm and Doc did four shots of x rays and everything looked fine, but she still couldn't stand up at all. Doc gave me some anti-inflamitory meds.
I started giving her the meds and keeping her in a large ceramic bowl filled with carefresh. For the first couple days she stayed in the bowl and ate her food. She had to be held up to drink several times a day, but had a good appetite. Eventually she started pulling herself out of the bowl and I had to put her into a cockatiel cage.
Now she is climbing all over that cage and getting some of her nastiness back. I am amazed at her recovery. She has almost gotten all of her use of her leg back and I am so happy.
