AG_Andy

this has been ongoing for 14 days,and two visits to the vet, the first visit was for the open wound as the vet called it under a claw, an antibiotic injection was given and a course of antibiotics and some cream for the wound, was instructed to keep him in the small cage until it was more or less healed up. When the swelling had gone down and the cut was looking ok we tried him in his cage, this is when he started to savage his foot and drew blood!, straight back to the vet it was, with the same instructions we left again, things started to settle again so in the big cage he went and he started to attack his foot again,the method the vet gave to stop the bleeding was used and back in the small cage again, this is where he is at this moment, he is back at the vets on Friday for his follow up but the advice he gave us has been followed, will ask about a collar when there. We can not seem to get him out of savaging his foot, I use the word "savage" as this is the best explination of what he is doing to it, he does not stop, when he is bleeding he is at it none stop and very aggressive with it. I just hope he does'nt get too cosey in the small cage as he has been in there a bit now. Have you or anyone else seen this type of thing before as the vet has not seen this before and was quite supprised by what he has done to himself! I will put an update on here when he has been to the vet on Friday or inbetween if things pick up with him. Regards, Andy.

sorry about any confusion regarding my post on this, the wound is being treated its under one of his claws, this was healing up nicely but for some reason he has started to bite his foot to the extent that it is bleeding and we have to stop him if not it looks like he is intent on biting it off, it is him biting his foot that we are concernd with as he does this as soon as he is in his big cage but not in the smaller cage. Hope this is a better explination of what the problem is.We need something like what you put on a dog(the lamp shade thing) to stop him licking his wounds, but in this case to stop him savaging his foot. Regards, Andy.

hello all,I am posting this on behalf of my dad, hope this is in the right catergory. He has a 10 month old african grey that recently injured its left foot in the cage on a toy which left an open wound, after a few trips to the vet and a course of antibiotics and ointment the bird keeps attacking its foot to the extent it makes it bleed!the only way it leaves it alone is when it is put in the small cage we use to transport it to the vet in. When he is put back in the big cage he hangs on the bars and will not go on the perches and as soon as he goes to the bottom of the cage he attacks his foot, it looks like he is trying to bite it off!! but put him in the small transport cage and he may nibble it but not attack it, he wont go to the food pots in the big cage too, all this is since he injured his foot, before this he was a really active bird that never stopped,he still has all the use of the foot as well. Hope someone has some advice or has come accross something like this that may be able to give us some help to get him out of this stage. Thankyou in advance, Andy