Good morning everyone.
We adopted Kakashi, our little bird with one leg (that was apparently bitten off by a hawk or something of that sort) and he’s been happily hopping around on that one leg for a year.
Recently we’ve noticed he’s using his beak much more to manoeuvre around, so we decided to take him to the vet to have everything checked out.
He can still grip with the foot, he’s able to climb around his cage using his foot and beak, but the vet has suggested he may have arthritis.
We’ve just dropped him off at the vet to have general anaesthetic and x-rays taken of his foot, and she’s suggested that if he does have arthritis and it’s quite bad, we would have to consider euthanasia..
We’re in bits and absolutely do not want to put him to sleep if we can help it and still give him quality of life- we absolutely LOVE the little guy.
Can anyone offer any advice / previous experience in dealing with anything similar?
Thanks so much,
Rich :grey tiel:
We adopted Kakashi, our little bird with one leg (that was apparently bitten off by a hawk or something of that sort) and he’s been happily hopping around on that one leg for a year.
Recently we’ve noticed he’s using his beak much more to manoeuvre around, so we decided to take him to the vet to have everything checked out.
He can still grip with the foot, he’s able to climb around his cage using his foot and beak, but the vet has suggested he may have arthritis.
We’ve just dropped him off at the vet to have general anaesthetic and x-rays taken of his foot, and she’s suggested that if he does have arthritis and it’s quite bad, we would have to consider euthanasia..
We’re in bits and absolutely do not want to put him to sleep if we can help it and still give him quality of life- we absolutely LOVE the little guy.
Can anyone offer any advice / previous experience in dealing with anything similar?
Thanks so much,
Rich :grey tiel: