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Hallo, Does anyone know how I can tell whether my CAG has a fever? And why would his beak be hotter than normal? I appreciate you help!:dry:

hallo all! i was wondering. do cag's also suffer from seperation anxiety? could that be why he won't stay in his cage with the door closed and why he follows us around the house like a puppy? and if that's the case, how can we 'train' him to get over it??? your comments, as always, will really be appreciated...

the pictures..... maybe you can tell me how to get them here. i couldn't so i posted them on the Photo Album, you can search for Levi....

thanks again for all the interest and advise, it's highly appreciated. we've just come back from the vet. she originally clipped his 1 wing to match the length of the other wing, since when we got levi, only 1 wing was clipped. and she agrees that we should now let the feathers grow out and let him learn to fly, before clipping them again. until then, we just have to watch his 'diving to the ground' habit, heee heee. because of his jump on saturday, she couldn't remove all his stitches, we'll be back on friday for the rest. here's a photo of him, very unimpressed with life, and an earlier one, where he's stealing the doggies food.... cheeky little bugger, but we love him!!!!

thanks again for all the interest and advise, it's highly appreciated. we've just come back from the vet. she originally clipped his 1 wing to match the length of the other wing, since when we got levi, only 1 wing was clipped. and she agrees that we should now let the feathers grow out and let him learn to fly, before clipping them again. until then, we just have to watch his 'diving to the ground' habit, heee heee. because of his jump on saturday, she couldn't remove all his stitches, we'll be back on friday for the rest. here's a photo of him, very unimpressed with life, and an earlier one, where he's stealing the doggies food.... cheeky little bugger, but we love him!!!!

thank you all very very much for the advise. in all likelihood the wings have been cut too drastically. but, time's gonna have to sort that one out, hey! and yes, it's back to keeping a really really close eye on levi again. but will discuss with the vet also tomorrow, those stitches have to come out anyway... will be back!

i am so despondent, sitting here. our little levi (african grey of 8 months) keeps on jumping off great heights, that he developed a sore and eventually had stitches, with a collar to prevent him from taking them out. he was stressing so badly with the collar that i called the vet on monday, who said i could take the collar off, but to keep him with me to make sure he didn't take the stitches out. which is what i did. off came the collar and levi travelled with me to work, the shops, home, the whole week, always in my sight. and the wound was healing beautifully. and levi was behaving and leaving the stitches alone, even at night, and didn't leap off anything. and monday we would have been back at the vet to take the stitches out and all would have been well.... except that just now, he decided for no reason, to jump off my shoulder, and now he has another wound right next to the old one. i'm so despondent. i need training on parrots. how on earth does one teach a parrot to live in a cage? how does one teach a parrot to not jump off great heights? how long will it take for the feathers to grow back to the area so that there's at least some padding? i feel like giving up........ all that hard work this whole week for nothing it seems....