WannaBeAParrot
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- Jul 5, 2012
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- Cody-Blu, female Blue-Crowned Conure, Hatched - (approx) June 1, 2014, in a South Florida tree.
Pritti (Cherry-Head Conure) -- Fly in Peace my beautiful boy. Forever I'll love you.
I'm totally unsure if he just had a seizure or got spooked by nothing I could notice. He was resting, falling asleep this evening on my chest while I was scratching his head and watching tv in dim light. All of a sudden he fluttered his wings and ran up toward my head and stopped when he got to the edge of the sofa arm I was leaning on, and he was like frozen, eyes wide open, standing up. I talked in a calm voice to him and gave him my finger to step up, but it was like he didn't see me, or anything for that matter. I slipped my hand under his feet and moved him down closer to where he was by let him lean against the back cushion of the sofa. He was just leaning his whole body on it, crouched, eye wide open and staring at me, and it seemed like he couldn't move. After about 2 minutes of just comforting him and keeping my hand next to him, I tried to move him and he darted across my chest from the back cushion of the sofa straight over to where your legs would go toward floor on sofa. He couldn't go any further or he would have fallen off me. So I assume he could see, but was acting spacey. He just stood there staring into space, eyes wide open and not moving again. More comforting words, then after a minute I moved him back to the usual position on top of my chest and pulled the t-shirt he was laying on up and around him to snuggle him in and keep him warm and secure, i rubbed his head and let him lean against my other hand. There was no convulsing as I would expect it to look. I don't know if the fluttering and darting was the convulsing.
So he stayed there and just stared at me. I have him some water, he drank one sip. Then he finally started moving around (this entire episode so far is going on for about 6 - 8 minutes from starting). He seemed restless and just on his feet and looking around in the same snuggle spot I made for him. Lights have been dim the whole time. I put him on top of his cage to see how he would do. He immediately walked to the tall metal toy hook and climbed up and sat on top of it and wouldn't move from there no matter what for about 10 minutes. Finally he went down and slowly made his way into the cage to his sleeping perch and stood there staring for a few minutes, then started preening for a couple of minutes and then to sleep position (head backwards leaning against his snuggly buddy and a toy pulled over to sandwhich himself in.
Today is day 2 of my giving him antibiotic injections twice a day, and oral syringe antifungal twice a day. He slipped off a table twice today and sort of crash landed/semi-glided to the floor (wings were just re-clipped last week at a-vet), because the edge of table was rounded and he lost his grip I think. He did not appear at all hurt or upset by the "falls". He's been eating all day as usual, gave himself a bath, playing... until this. I had given him an injection about one hour before this and he squirmed away twice so I had to towel him 3 times and he was very unhappy about that, screaming at me.
What do you think? Spooked? Seizure? I recall something like this happening once before -- a year or so ago -- but I thought he got spooked about something. So of course, now I'm watching him like a hawk while he's sleeping -- sitting about 4 feet from his cage in a dimly lit quiet room.
So he stayed there and just stared at me. I have him some water, he drank one sip. Then he finally started moving around (this entire episode so far is going on for about 6 - 8 minutes from starting). He seemed restless and just on his feet and looking around in the same snuggle spot I made for him. Lights have been dim the whole time. I put him on top of his cage to see how he would do. He immediately walked to the tall metal toy hook and climbed up and sat on top of it and wouldn't move from there no matter what for about 10 minutes. Finally he went down and slowly made his way into the cage to his sleeping perch and stood there staring for a few minutes, then started preening for a couple of minutes and then to sleep position (head backwards leaning against his snuggly buddy and a toy pulled over to sandwhich himself in.
Today is day 2 of my giving him antibiotic injections twice a day, and oral syringe antifungal twice a day. He slipped off a table twice today and sort of crash landed/semi-glided to the floor (wings were just re-clipped last week at a-vet), because the edge of table was rounded and he lost his grip I think. He did not appear at all hurt or upset by the "falls". He's been eating all day as usual, gave himself a bath, playing... until this. I had given him an injection about one hour before this and he squirmed away twice so I had to towel him 3 times and he was very unhappy about that, screaming at me.
What do you think? Spooked? Seizure? I recall something like this happening once before -- a year or so ago -- but I thought he got spooked about something. So of course, now I'm watching him like a hawk while he's sleeping -- sitting about 4 feet from his cage in a dimly lit quiet room.
You already know, but I was going to say it sounded exactly like what happened when our grey had seizures. Hope he gets better soon.
