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Please keep my tiel in your thoughts


Gaevren

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We've had Spike now for just over a week. He's only about 6 months old, just a baby still- hasn't even had his first molt! He seemed fine, was eating and drinking and poop looked normal, but this morning he was wheezing and panting. It sounded like birdie asthma, very audible! Called the vet and brought him in right away.

 

They have him on oxygen right now to help with his breathing and then they can examine him, at which point they'll call me. So in about an hour I should get a call, is what they said.

 

I had brought him in last Monday, one week ago today, for his initial exam and tests. All the tests came out normal except ONE- psittacosis! That one takes 10-15 days so we haven't even gotten the results back yet, but he's showing some of the symptoms, poor guy.

 

The good thing is the avian shop we got him at guarantees their birds to be free of psittacosis, respiratory infections, and parasites (in writing!) and based on what I could see when we were there, they really care about the birds and know what they're doing. So if it is pre-existing then...I don't know how that works exactly heh. Whether they'll pay the vet bills or how it goes, I didn't think to ask. At this point I just want him to get well!

 

Poor guy couldn't even squawk at me properly when I towelled him to get him out of his cage and into the carrier. Just a couple of wheezy, indignant chirps. :(

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:ohmy: Poor little Spike! I have baby cockatiels, and I cant imagine how I would feel if anything happened to one of them. I will keep not only him, but you too in my thoughts today and I sincerely hope he will be ok.

 

It sounds like you got him to a vet pretty quickly so hopefully he will make it. Poor little guy :(

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Well I got an update. He's doing a little better after being in the oxygen tank for a bit, but still not doing great; he's still pretty wheezy. They can't keep him on oxygen forever but she also doesn't want to poke him and prod him and run a bunch of diagnostics and do a lot of physical examining that would stress him out anymore. He's pretty stressed as it is! They're going to start him on some antibiotics to help prevent him getting sicker due to a lower immuno response from being stressed, plus depending on what's wrong the antibiotics may help clear it up.

 

They will call me if there are any drastic changes, and for now, no news is good news! I should know more tonight, or tomorrow morning.

 

*fingers crossed*

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