| Geneva/Tippy update |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|02:41 pm] |
I'm having a particularly "ugh" sort of day today, and so Tippy's adoptive mom sent me along a little tidbit to make me smile. I did, so I'm sharing the smile with you all.
yesterday we took the tipster in to see dr. [B] to have some work
done on her beak. remember when she hurt her it a few months ago? (our
theory was that during one of her more balance-challenged moments she
smacked it against one of her porcelain food/water bowls. those have
since been replaced with very light weight bowls so that this injury
will never re-occur.) anywhoo her beak had a small crack so dr. [B]
used some strong glue-type material to reinforce the beak while it
healed. it worked so well that tippy couldn't wear her beak down in
that area with normal chewing so it was starting to grow longer on one
side! dr. [B] gently ground the beak back down on that side to make
it even once again. during her exam and treatment tippy was the perfect
patient! she didn't try to nip even once - she just gave everyone those
adorable looks with her sweet little eyes with her head cocked to one
side. naturally dr. [B] and all of the vet techs are completely in
love with her! they told us how lucky we are to have such a sweet
little bird like tippy and you know what, they're right!
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| Geneva |
[May. 22nd, 2007|07:08 am] |
This weekend I got these great pictures of Geneva and her mom's other handicapped bird, a Goffins 'too sharing a meal. They just made me smile, so sharing with y'all (with permission of course!)
I replied to the email expressing my envy that they were getting along so well - my birds don't get along at all. She replied with:
weeble and tippy did kinda hit it off from the start - but maybe it's
because they are both physically different/special? birds are smart - i
think they understand these things. also maybe a factor is that i let
them hang out at dinner time and the food is a "happy time" association
for them. they have started to do just a little bit of gentle head
preening on one another but it's tenative. i really hope that their
friendship continues to grow - we all need as many friends as we can
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| Geneva has been adopted! |
[Apr. 18th, 2007|07:22 am] |
Some wonderful news - Geneva has been adopted into a home that has several of Mickaboo's coordinators hoping to be reincarnated as a bird that gets to live there too. :)
Geneva and her new mom bonded almost immediately, and I'm really excited for them both as they start on this new journey.
What a happy bird!
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Snuggling with the new mom.
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After driving home to the Los Angeles area with Geneva, her mom sent me an email to let me know that they'd arrived safely and the next day sent me an update:
geneva is doing great. she is taking all of the changes in stride -
amazing!
she seems to really be enjoying her new cage. she is eating like a
champ and is enjoying our menu items like birdie bread and pasta made
from quinoa in addition to the veggies and harrisons pellets.
last night i had her out on the floor with me in the quarantine room
and she started using me as a sort of "rail" to balance against and she
ran in circles around me! super cute.
as reported in her mickaboo "personal-ad" she loves head scritchies -
can't get enough of them!
last night she burrowed under the paper towels in her cage to sleep -
which was cute but also a little baffling as i am trying to get her to
sleep in a snuggly birdy hut . . . oh geneva - you little feathered
paradox.
i'm amazed at how well she really can perch and move as it's completely
clear that balance is a serious issue for her. she has already figured
out the configuration of perches in her cage and she can move back and
forth between them quiet deftly. it seems that she has more trouble
balancing on flat surfaces like the floor because (i assume) she can't
wrap her feet around and hold on to the flat surface. so i'm thinking
the key to geneva's mobility will be to offer plenty of perches for her
to grasp as she goes.
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| Geneva |
[Mar. 6th, 2007|07:58 pm] |
Several of the flock's birds are fostered with one foster parent - who is on vacation this week. So the birds are with temporary foster parents. I got this today, from Geneva's temporary family:
[Husband] and I are bird sitting Geneva this week, and I can verify that she is an absolute sweetheart. Other than her daily snacks, she loves nothing more than to cuddle up with you and get scritches.
They shared pictures as proof. Isn't she beautiful?
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Geneva
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Skritches
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| One post, a few updates |
[Feb. 5th, 2007|12:13 pm] |
Gillespie has been adopted! He went to his new home this weekend and is settling in. This is what his new mom had to say after getting him home: OK....Gillespie is now home and he did wonderfully!!! He rode well....[his foster mom] thinks he likes to ride. I think so too. We got home and he climbed out of the carrier by himself and into his cage all on his own. He is cautious of us of course but....he is being a good birdie. He is in bed now after the "First day home" pictures were taken. I wove him!!
And Paco may be adopted this week. *fingers crossed*
From Lombard and Ellis and Geneva's foster mom:
Lombard is still acting freaked out about being a caged bird, and is still spending most of his day trying to escape. It is going to be a long road for him/her. : (
Lombard and Ellis: Lombard has an elevated white blood cell count, and needs to be watched closely for the next few weeks. [Dr F] called, and wants to see Ellis and Lombard back in about 3 weeks for a recheck. She thinks that Ellis may lose the beak, but at least it isn't infected right now. She also asked me whether or not Lombard is "stressed out". She thinks that the WBC might also be related to stress.
Ellis is healthy as a horse, other than the beak. Even his broken leg is better. [Dr. F] just wants to track it as it heals to make sure it isn't getting infected (it looks AWFUL right now). If it never grows back, he will have to be handfed. :(
The tiny bit of good news is that Geneva is now totally tame, and loves being toweled for head scratches. She's definitely on her way to being a "pet".
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| Geneva Update |
[Oct. 12th, 2006|12:01 pm] |
From Geneva's foster mom:
Geneva is doing okay. Now that she's on Harrison's, it might be time to either move her to her other foster home, or get her adopted. She's a bit ... not all there, if you know what I mean. Since she and Serge have been talking back and forth, I'd really like her to go be with other cherryhead conures.
She's also continually dunking her head in her water dish and sneezing a lot, and I might want to have her checked one more time by Dr. F. She also rolls in her own poop constantly, requiring daily bathing. :( It is that coordination problem neurological thing. She can perch, but sometimes forgets how and falls over!
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| Geneva |
[Sep. 26th, 2006|04:06 pm] |
I got this today too. She sounds totally wonderful. Hopefully she can teach Taylor about eating pellets now that she gets it too. :)
Speaking of Geneva, she's finally converted fully to Harrison's. I am
so happy! She may be ready to go soon to another house with other
conures. She perches pretty well, and since she has perked up a lot
with her new diet, she's much more interactive with the "stupid
humans that bring her seed treats". Her only serious issue is that
she falls over and rolls around in her own poop on the floor of her
cage, making daily baths necessary.
She still falls over all the time, but it is very cute. She's also
started burbling back and forth with Serge (obviously they both speak
Cherryhead, unlike Ferdinand who learned Mitred from his mom), which
is why I would love it if Geneva could go to a home with another
cherryhead for company.
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| Geneva, Tara, and fledging in the flock |
[Sep. 13th, 2006|10:37 am] |
I emailed a few Mickaboo people today to find out if any necropsy results had come in yet for Harrison, Tara, or Spice. I heard back from Geneva's foster mom with one set of results as well as an update on Geneva.
First off, Geneva is doing better. She's actually starting to eat the pellet mush I give her. She keeps sneezing, but I think it is because she keeps dunking her head in her own water dish. Duh.
The only necropsy I've heard back about was Tara. Tara had so much bleeding in all of her organs that even Dr. F is stumped. The lab pointed at some kind of toxin, but had no idea specifically what. Dr. F and I had a brainstorm session on the phone last week about what it might have been, but nothing she could have eaten would have done it. Even her successful escape attempt was 2.5 weeks before she got sick, and if she had eaten anything bad off the floor to cause her death, it would have had to happen within 24 hours of escape. This is still a total mystery.
Other than that, it is time for baby conures and I haven't heard anything from SFACC yet. I am crossing my fingers that they are all okay.
Here's hoping the fledge is a very successful one, with very few (if any) injuries ...
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| Geneva |
[Aug. 29th, 2006|03:28 pm] |
One of our volunteers offered to take in Geneva so that the home she's currently in can be freed up for any babies that come to us during fledging. She won't be moving right away, she's apparently not doing too well. In talking about the proposed move and the bird's current state of health, I got these comments from her foster mom:
Geneva is very quiet for a conure. In fact, she is the most quiet conure we've had so far. She's also quite disabled right now, and that might change as she gets better over time.
I am unfortunately a bit worried for her this week since she's been very low energy in the last couple of days. I've been carefully trying to switch her to pellets, and want to hang on to her until I know she's eating well.
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In a nutshell, she's acting pokey this week. I've been so careful not to push the diet change very hard since I was afraid of her losing weight, but while I was gone this last weekend for three days, all she ate was seed and some veggies and seems. . . not herself. We might be visiting [Dr. F] this week if she doesn't perk up.
Considering that we've lost so many this year, I'm scared to do *anything* wrong with diet or moving her or you name it.
So please think good thoughts for Geneva. We've definitely lost too many of these guys this year so far. And everyone one is such a huge loss for Mickaboo and for the wild flock.
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| Geneva |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|08:59 pm] |
The influx of birds from the SF Cherryhead flock started with Gillespie on June 12th. It continued with Cassandra and Harrison. Next came Geneva.
On June 27th Mickaboo got a call from the SF Animal Control about yet another poor conure suffering from the neurological illness.
Our "Cherryhead Angel" volunteer picked the bird up at SFACC and took her home since it was too late to get to a vet that night. She gave the bird the name Geneva. Thankfully she was doing MUCH better than Cassandra and Harrison were doing when they first came to us. Geneva did fine overnight until the vet opened - in fact she went into a cage not a hospital tank. That night she was eating her seed while her foster mom was watching TV and then she got very quiet. Her foster mom found Geneva asleep in her food dish. : )
She was taken to see Dr. F the next day since she was pretty beaten up, but was found to be in relatively good health. She was dewormed and given antibiotics – and sent home again.
She’s doing well now, she’s even stable enough to sleep on her perch, and is ready for a long-term foster or adoptive home.
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