happycat
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Okay, first of all, I'm really sorry for all the questions lately. I've just coincidentally had a lot of questions lately.
Kirby just regurgitated twice, what looked very different from his normal regurgitation. Normally his regurgitation is yellow mash. Just then it was chunky, white, and had hard pieces of food and some seeds. I never see food this undigested.
I'm hoping its just because he's excited, because of the day he's had. Let me provide some backstory of my rather gross day.
In the morning we changed the room (my mothers bedroom) around. We moved the bed and some other things. After that I began to clean Kirby's cage. On another post I mentioned that there was a toy that I rarely move, and it was connected to the bars under his hut. When I moved it I found a pretty gross pile of crusty, probably week old, poop. But that toy also has been what jammed Kirby's cage. Kirby's cage is one of those kinds of cages with the removable bottom, and bars over the removable bedding area. I don't use the bars because he drops a lot of food and likes to eat it off the ground. For some reason I've never been able to remove the removable bottom however. I tried everything and couldn't get it out. Well, after I removed the toy, which I assumed has been jamming it, I COULD get it out, and you won't believe what was under it.
It was absolutely disgusting. So disgusting that I yelled it fear. It was piles of dead bugs. Small, brown bugs so small they looked like seeds. But tons and tons of them. I mean TONS of them. And there were about 10 white things mixed in, little wiggling baby bugs.
Honestly, I feel like a really terrible bird owner for somehow not knowing this was going on. I always just cleaned the top part of the bottom of the cage thinking I couldn't remove it. I can't believe he was living on top of that.
So we took the entire cage to the carwash and washed it with the strong spraying water. We then took it home and cleaned it to death in the shower. (no soap though, but I think the carwash water was strong enough)
He stayed in his little carrier for a really long time through this. About an hour and a half. A lot of junk went on, the noises from people outside, I was still freaking out about the bugs etc. Probably a whole lot of excitement for one day. I just put him in his now sparkling clean cage, and he regurgitated like I told you above.
Sorry for the huge, weird backstory, I just had a lot to tell. He has had a very exciting and rough day. Could that be why he is regurgitating weird, or does regurgitation always have hard chunks, and a couple seeds? I'm also thinking those bugs could be flesh fly babies, as we had a flesh fly problem earlier. Or maybe it could be what has been making him so itchy? Either way they are gone now and they are going to stay gone. I hope he stops regurgitating like that.
Kirby just regurgitated twice, what looked very different from his normal regurgitation. Normally his regurgitation is yellow mash. Just then it was chunky, white, and had hard pieces of food and some seeds. I never see food this undigested.
I'm hoping its just because he's excited, because of the day he's had. Let me provide some backstory of my rather gross day.
In the morning we changed the room (my mothers bedroom) around. We moved the bed and some other things. After that I began to clean Kirby's cage. On another post I mentioned that there was a toy that I rarely move, and it was connected to the bars under his hut. When I moved it I found a pretty gross pile of crusty, probably week old, poop. But that toy also has been what jammed Kirby's cage. Kirby's cage is one of those kinds of cages with the removable bottom, and bars over the removable bedding area. I don't use the bars because he drops a lot of food and likes to eat it off the ground. For some reason I've never been able to remove the removable bottom however. I tried everything and couldn't get it out. Well, after I removed the toy, which I assumed has been jamming it, I COULD get it out, and you won't believe what was under it.
It was absolutely disgusting. So disgusting that I yelled it fear. It was piles of dead bugs. Small, brown bugs so small they looked like seeds. But tons and tons of them. I mean TONS of them. And there were about 10 white things mixed in, little wiggling baby bugs.
Honestly, I feel like a really terrible bird owner for somehow not knowing this was going on. I always just cleaned the top part of the bottom of the cage thinking I couldn't remove it. I can't believe he was living on top of that.
So we took the entire cage to the carwash and washed it with the strong spraying water. We then took it home and cleaned it to death in the shower. (no soap though, but I think the carwash water was strong enough)
He stayed in his little carrier for a really long time through this. About an hour and a half. A lot of junk went on, the noises from people outside, I was still freaking out about the bugs etc. Probably a whole lot of excitement for one day. I just put him in his now sparkling clean cage, and he regurgitated like I told you above.
Sorry for the huge, weird backstory, I just had a lot to tell. He has had a very exciting and rough day. Could that be why he is regurgitating weird, or does regurgitation always have hard chunks, and a couple seeds? I'm also thinking those bugs could be flesh fly babies, as we had a flesh fly problem earlier. Or maybe it could be what has been making him so itchy? Either way they are gone now and they are going to stay gone. I hope he stops regurgitating like that.