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10/21/2006 Update on fidsHello World!
I wanted to update you all on the birds. KiKo was pretty scary there for awhile. She bit me twice in the ear, right in the cartilage. That really hurts, by the way... Anyway, I moved her cage away from Little Sammy & stopped letting her on my shoulder at all. She was perfectly happy to be in her own cage or on the tree. She hasn't even asked to get up on my shoulder until just recently. That area is still off-limits to her until I can totally trust her. She seems happy; she plays in her cage & yells out her name over & over. She keeps herself occupied & sometimes plays on the tree with the toys hanging in it. Her hide is pretty much picked clean under her wings, around her vent & most of her belly, and on her back between her shoulder blades. I squirt her with the water/aloe solution when I think of it to ease her itching.
KiKo will walk away from me if I try to preen her, so until she's comfortable again with my hands being on her, she'll just stay either on her cage or in the tree. She does like to interact with other birds on the tree, which is good until a squabble ensues. Then somebody gets taken off the tree & goes back to their cage.
I took Tuxie to the vet recently, because his urates looked bile-colored to me. The vet did a fecal & found Tux had an e. coli infection. So, for a week I have to give antibiotics to him via syringe. Administration of the med is not a problem; catching Tuxie to administer it IS. Tuxie is very quick, slick, and has a big bill. He bit me on my right thumb, down into the quick of the nail, it bled & bled. It also throbbed a good three days. Such is life with birds.................... TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://cynthus850.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F962585D80372CC7!589.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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