[CaliTiels]

This thread makes me sick. Like, seriously, sick. I would've punched the vet in her freaking face. What a jerk!

You definitely should find a kinder vet. Can't she see you're stressed out already? You need reassurance and support, not chastising. My heart goes out to you and Rascal

 

[Guest]

I was at the vet since 9am today, so about 4 hours and just got home. They gave him fluids, tube fed him since he won't eat and also took bloodwork to see how much damage he has from the rhabdomyolysis. I will know results of bloodwork by tomorrow I think.

They let me see him twice. Here's a picture I took of him in the incubator. He doesn't look good. He's not opening his eyes and slightly puffed up.

I could kill this woman with my bare hands for what she did to my bird. If she had simply called me when the bird was injured NONE of this would be happening!

That woman has NO business owning any birds or pets!! She has 2 birds and the authorities are coming to my house either today or tomorrow I will press charges and get attorney but right now I am sick to my stomach worried he is not going to make it!!! =( Never felt more sick in my entire life.

I am extremely worried since he has stopped eating on his own. When I stared this thread never in million yrs did I think my tiel would end up fighting for his life. NEVER.

I STILL do not know what caused the injury because the woman LIES and will not tell me!!!!!!!!

 

[TamaMoo]

Joey and I are still sending hugs, prayers, scritches and love to you and your sweet Lil Rascal. As much as you need to focus on him, you also need to be able to focus enough on getting justice for Rascal and preventing any other birds/animals from being left in her care. I know that isn't easy when worrying about your little one, but she needs to be stopped. Bare hands aren't the answer, although I understand your desire to do so.

 

[Jaguar]

Channel your anger & frustration into the motivation you are going to need to show this woman the true consequences of her actions... animal cruelty is still a highly overlooked and under punished crime, and you are going to need all the determination in the world to stick it through when they try to give you the legal runaround, hoping you give up or run out of money. Stay strong and don't give up... on your cause, or on Rascal.

 

[Guest]

Rage is finally started to kick in. I am still in complete shock and worried sick but now I am getting angrier and angrier. I just took pictures of the blood splatters everwhere in the cage. .. and when I say everywhere I do mean there is blood splatters everywhere in the entire cage. Here are some pictures. Blood platters on his cuttle bone and even a big blood stain on his toy's face! .... and the large opening door is just covered in blood.

You can clearly see the feathers that were yanked out of both wings. It is very CLEAR those were the wing feathers that were yanked out because of the way the wing feathers are cut. OBVIOUSLY because that is the way I have his wings trimmed.... it is so obvious.

I am so upset. This has made me sick. I am physically ill over this. I will be showing the below picture to the authorities as well as the injuries/wounds pictures on his wings/body.

It is beyond obvious the woman KNEW he sustained an injury, yet did not notify me nor a vet to help in time to prevent all this! I will not be able to handle it if Rascal dies. I won't. Noway. It cannot happen.

 

[ParrotletsRock]

Wow, I am so sorry for you and your baby.... this is so strange, I know if I was watching an animal and it got injured even if my fault I would contact the owner and seek medical attention immediately. I don't understand, did she think you wouldn't notice? Prayers for you both.

 

[Guest]

I guarantee she thought I wouldn't notice. 100% positive.

 

[Jaguar]

Wow, that is a LOT of feathers. Though for comparison, Phoenix bled a lot more when he broke a single blood feather in a night fright a few weeks ago (unless there was more blood you didn't photograph). The wound on the wings looks gruesome, though. Hoping for the best. Make sure you take pictures of EVERYTHING she says to you, with timestamps, and back the photos up! Hard evidence is your best shot here. Especially if you have proof of her lying/changing the story repeatedly as she seems to be doing.

And also, if this goes legal, it would be best to keep the details to a minimum - anything you say on here may be used against you, unfortunately. :/

 

[Guest]

I'm 100% positive there was tons of blood everywhere. She cleaned up a lot of it for sure. There was also dried blood all over his wings. Unfortunately, I never took picture of blood on his wings. You can see big blood splatter on that toy's head, she didn't manage to clean up because it stained toy with blood. There were big blood spots all over which she cleaned up... she didn't manage to clean it off the toy or cuttle bone.

You can see on the cage door... it's covered in blood and I'm sure there was blood on the walls and floor that flew through the bars. She didn't do good job in clean up. Bird droppings all over the place too... caked onto the perch. I have to call vet in another hour for update or I'm going to lose it.

 

[Mayra]

That lady sounds so irresponsible and cowardly. She needs to accept responsibility for this. Rascal was under HER care. If an accident occurred from being careless she should have called you immidiately and taken him to a vet instead of hacking at his wings or whatever she did that clearly made him worse and then leaving him to suffer. You have every right to be so upset and to sue her. It makes me so upset to think that someone who is trusted to care for a cockatiel would outright abuse them and abuse that trust.

 

[Guest]

The vet actually told me today it looks like someone cut into his wigs with scissors because the line was too perfectly straight. She said the person who did it had no idea what they were doing. This is what she think. other than that... she has no idea what could have happened and cannot believe that woman is lying about what really happened and that I need to report it to the health department.

That was the wrong place to call though and I then contacted have animal control and they are coming out soon today or tomorrow and they will go to her house and also pick up my evidence. I feel horrifically bad this happened to Rascal and now he's suffering greatly.

 

[CaliTiels]

Rascal is a little fighter though. He's a very brave little man. Tell us if there's anything you'd like, we'll try to help out the best we can

 

[amberwydell]

This thread just keeps getting me more and more angry! I hope that that nasty woman gets what's coming to her... poor Rascal shouldn't have to suffer on behalf of her stupidity! Why on earth would you try and clip a cockatiel's wings when you have no idea what you're doing? Especially when that bird belongs to someone else! I'm absolutely fuming. I hope there's a light at the end of the tunnel for you... stay strong!

 

[Guest]

I just called the clinic for an update. The tech there told me not to feel bad if I need to call them for update and said another woman called them over 10 times a day to check on her pet.

The tech said blood results should be here within 2 or 3 days and the bloodwork will show just how bad his condition is and how bad his rhabdomyolysis is. The fact that he has rhabdomyolysis REALLY freaks me out because that is very serious as it can damage organs and cause kidney failure... and I guess the bloodwork will show how badly his kidneys have been damaged?

If you read up on rhabdomyolysis it says it often results in kidney damage. Can kidneys repair themselves? I am having panic attack.

I forgot to ask the vet this question, do not want to call her she is rude on the phone not pleasant to talk to at all.

The next day or 2 will be the longest days of my life =(

 

[ParrotletsRock]

Sorry I have no idea about that condition and have never heard of it before. If it makes you feel a little better there was a tiel at our local bird rescue a year or so ago that had her wings cut off!! Some (insert suitible name here) tried to clip the wings and cut the actual wings off. Bones and all!! She not only survived but got over the trauma and learned to love a human again and went to her forever home.

 

[Guest]

Sorry I have no idea about that condition and have never heard of it before. If it makes you feel a little better there was a tiel at our local bird rescue a year or so ago that had her wings cut off!! Some (insert suitible name here) tried to clip the wings and cut the actual wings off. Bones and all!! She not only survived but got over the trauma and learned to love a human again and went to her forever home.

Wow, that is insane. What is wrong with people do such such insanely stupid things? I think the vet could be right. Perhaps she did cut his wings (also suspicious because of that weird slice in his other wing looks like scissors did it, this whole thing is beyond odd. Wish I knew what happened. Only Rascal knows the truth.

 

[Kiwi]

I am so sorry to hear that he's not eating and they think he has Rhabdomyolysis. At least they are crop feeding him so he can get his strength up, he might learn to like pellets after that who knows.

I haven't heard of a 'tiel that's had rhabdomyolysis, my brother had it. He had it for a long time, few months and developed compartment syndrome in his legs. He is a college track runner and thinks stress fractures over the years in his legs brought it on. All it does for him is make it a little harder to run unless he changes his running style, they said that was the way to fix it, or surgery. The change of pace worked for his though. Rascal could have gotten it from hitting his wings on the cage or something. I don't think it would set in that fast from just the fall.

 

[Guest]

On second thought, I don't think the woman cut his wings because if you look at that picture you can see his wing feathers were yanked out by the root. Vet thinks some fell out/yanked out then the rest may have been cut to try to even it out as a cover up... but I can see all were definitely not cut due to the feathers I found.

I am feeling freaked out maybe when he slammed into the ground before I realized he could no longer fly did serious damage since he slammed very hard into the tile... he wasn't able to open his wings to even try to slow the drop.

 

[CaliTiels]

I just called the clinic for an update. The tech there told me not to feel bad if I need to call them for update and said another woman called them over 10 times a day to check on her pet.

At least there's one friendly face there. That's something. I've been thinking about Rascal all day

 

[Kiwi]

I would go for an x-ray then when he gets better. The keel/sternum is a very hard bone. Birds crash land all the time attempting to fly, I don't think it did too much damage to that part.

He's probably tired today because of possible infection and blood loss. Once he rests more I'm sure he'll feel much better.