Sadly, the little grey cockatiel who came under our care on Friday passed away today. He spent yesterday looking unhappy but not too unhealthy, and then this morning, went rapidly downhill and definitely developed a case of SBL (sick bird look - according to the vet).
Being Sunday, it was impossible to contact an avian specialist anywhere in Sydney, and we called and called but in the end Randwick Vet Hospital kindly agreed to take him in and do their best despite not having adequate resources for dealing with seriously ill birdies.
Apparently, birds, once they start looking sick, have not that much of a chance. We left him with hope that some general bird antibiotics would help him out but the vet called at about 4pm and said that Birdy had passed away.
It's hit us unexpectedly badly. After all, he came to us not more than 48 hours ago, and spent most of that time hissing at us, or ignoring us.. but then when we'd leave the room to give him some privacy, he'd give a little questioning squawk and look at us. I really liked this bird. He had spirit, and was obviously very intelligent, and we should have brought him to a vet first thing when we got him, but we knew nothing about birds and now the helplessness is the most painful thing of all.
Goodbye Birdy. I'm so sorry we weren't better able to care for you.
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At least you didn't kill the bird out of negligence.
Remember the duckling I drowned, and the other one I neglected and went missing coz I was too depressed I drowned its sibling?
I will be a bad parent.
Qiao
Oh syn, this makes me sad - overidentification, much? (My parrot died a month ago.) The bird looks really cute in that photo you took of it. I think you did your best. It was probably pining away? :(
It can be hard to believe you've done your best when you really didn't do the best that could have been done... if that makes any sense?
Next time, animal goes straight to the vet before anything else.
And Poach, I read about your parrot. He sounded like a really wonderful bird and it was really sad that he passed away.
Time does seem to make things better though.
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