Hi,
I have just registered here hoping for any suggestions regarding my 29 year old African Grey Merlie.
She has been generally quieter for 3 weeks, but my daughter and her family, including her dog, came home from Germany for Christmas, and I kind of put it down to a sudden busy house initially.
Once I got my act together and started to pay more attention, I noticed she wasn’t eating as much, and she had lost a little weight. I paid more attention to encouraging her to eat and monitoring her intake and she seemed to pick up.
On the 14th December she had a day being fluffed up, sometimes on the floor, sometimes perched, she then laid an egg and seemed to improve vastly but remained generally quieter.
Over the past week she started to fluff up and perch more and more, and appeared fatigued and sleepy for most of the day, but she had been eating well and was acting normal when out of her cage and with me.
Worried, I took her to the vet on Monday, there was no sign of nasal discharge, her chest was clear, the vet could find no bulging or signs of egg binding, her vent was clean. I took a poo sample, which the vet thought looked greener than normal, she also remarked on a couple of her back feathers appeared to have a reddish rusty tinge. She told me this could be a sign of liver issues. The vet took bloods and asked me to take poo samples over the next 3 days and bring them in to be sampled. I am currently waiting for the blood results.
Merlie remains fluffed up and fatigued, she isn’t eating as much as she was, not even her treats. I keep her warm, she has her UV lamp on and I try not to disturb her too much but she comes to me and makes a huge effort to be her loving self.
I have her booked in for XRays and possibly a CT scan on Monday. I am obviously keen to have any ideas, experiences etc, but also would like to know thoughts on having the CT scan which is £2800, what is the likely hood of them actually being able to treat anything they may find on the CT that wouldn’t be shown on the blood results and poo sample? It’s so much money to find if at the end of the day it’s purely diagnostic, I hope what I am trying to say makes sense here. Also, should I be asking the vet to provide antibiotics now ahead of the blood and poo sample results ?
How long can she survive like this ? Is there anything I can do to?
I have just registered here hoping for any suggestions regarding my 29 year old African Grey Merlie.
She has been generally quieter for 3 weeks, but my daughter and her family, including her dog, came home from Germany for Christmas, and I kind of put it down to a sudden busy house initially.
Once I got my act together and started to pay more attention, I noticed she wasn’t eating as much, and she had lost a little weight. I paid more attention to encouraging her to eat and monitoring her intake and she seemed to pick up.
On the 14th December she had a day being fluffed up, sometimes on the floor, sometimes perched, she then laid an egg and seemed to improve vastly but remained generally quieter.
Over the past week she started to fluff up and perch more and more, and appeared fatigued and sleepy for most of the day, but she had been eating well and was acting normal when out of her cage and with me.
Worried, I took her to the vet on Monday, there was no sign of nasal discharge, her chest was clear, the vet could find no bulging or signs of egg binding, her vent was clean. I took a poo sample, which the vet thought looked greener than normal, she also remarked on a couple of her back feathers appeared to have a reddish rusty tinge. She told me this could be a sign of liver issues. The vet took bloods and asked me to take poo samples over the next 3 days and bring them in to be sampled. I am currently waiting for the blood results.
Merlie remains fluffed up and fatigued, she isn’t eating as much as she was, not even her treats. I keep her warm, she has her UV lamp on and I try not to disturb her too much but she comes to me and makes a huge effort to be her loving self.
I have her booked in for XRays and possibly a CT scan on Monday. I am obviously keen to have any ideas, experiences etc, but also would like to know thoughts on having the CT scan which is £2800, what is the likely hood of them actually being able to treat anything they may find on the CT that wouldn’t be shown on the blood results and poo sample? It’s so much money to find if at the end of the day it’s purely diagnostic, I hope what I am trying to say makes sense here. Also, should I be asking the vet to provide antibiotics now ahead of the blood and poo sample results ?
How long can she survive like this ? Is there anything I can do to?
