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RoboRodent posted:How do you fill that glass? Old server trick - When pouring a drink or carrying a martini glass, don't look at it. Your brain overcorrects for things that your body already corrected, causing spillage.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Crouton has a vet visit scheduled because her grody bird butt hasn't stopped being swollen up after her last egg laying bout (she produced three Easter miracles) and she's been quieter (read: less of an absolute poo poo). Okay so I'm 100% officially Bird Cursed Don't worry, Crouton is not dead! So while I was away over the Easter weekend she stayed with a friend and decided to poop out three eggs before I could come back. I was a doofus and didn't leave the fake eggs with him so he could give them to her the moment she pooped one out. So out they came! The day I got back she got the fake eggs and laid no more. This has happened before and shouldn't be an issue right???? WRONGO So her birdy butt area (vent/cloaca) didn't go down from being swollen as it is meant to after she gets out of a bout of egg laying. I weigh birds every second day and give them an all over body check at least once a week and was checking her vent every other day when I noticed the swelling wasn't going down. Around April 20th I decided "okay that is not improving" and between that and her being lighter than usual called the vet. In the ~5 days between booking the appointment and going there she started plucking the feathers and chewing the skin around her vent to the point of bleeding and tissue damage. Wow! says the vet, that is NOT a normal bird butt, let's check her poops and blood. Okay, everything looks healthy there (bloodwork took a couple of days to get back of course). Hmm, I'd guess she is egg bound. *pokes pokes* Okay, I don't FEEL an egg, but there could be stuff inside, also maybe she ate something, let's do some xrays and otherwise look in her guts. *zaps a bird* Okay so there doesn't look to be anything inside her, but let's give her some lucrin injections to shut down her egg making facilities and also some chelation drugs in case she ate some heavy metal off the floor. Also let's go see Dr Adrian about bird feather plucking and behavioural problems. Dr Adrian the Birb Expert takes a look at her and goes "Wowee okay so a stressed bird is going to start plucking feathers, sure, but chewing the skin off the vent area is another area entirely, that's almost certainly NOT bird stress (but it will be making a very stressed bird!)" (also he took a look at the photos I took of Bird Setup and notes I'd been taking of their feeding/sleep hours/interaction hours and was like "Yes that SHOULD be a happy bird"). When chelation and lucrin didn't seem to be having an effect he gave her metacam and then gabapentin for neurological pain as girl birds who have laid eggs can get nerve damage from small bone fractures. They seemed to have a little bit of an impact but nothing major and now she has a suprelorin implant (shuts down egg making facilities for a year) as the most recent thing and the doctors are all like "what IS THIS BIRD  "And when you have QLD's finest Birb Vets on the case and they're like "okay we know SOMETHING is causing her pain, probably, but we don't have the foggiest idea WHAT" you know something weird is going on. I am glad I have money stashed away for Emergency Bird Funds and also don't like spending my week to week disposable income on nice things because she is swiftly becoming an expensive girl.
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She's also doing Really Big Poops and showing other nesty behaviour but given that she's been on lucrin and now suprelorin that should all be well and truly shut down so the vets are even more like ????
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Jun 5, 2018 10:56
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Current diagnosis is "Bird is experiencing pain but we can't tell why, her reproductive bits are abnormal but how and why isn't the suprelorin/lucrin having an effect"
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Jun 5, 2018 11:04
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Good luck, CE and Crouton 
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Jun 5, 2018 15:00
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She's eating her food and playing with her toys and enjoying her scritches and murdering her balsa wood and not actively dying which is a good thing at least. Well, she's asleep right now, but I'm sure she'll still be alive in the morning, touch wood...
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Jun 5, 2018 15:07
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Feel better Crouton!!!!! Anais never got the memo she's a cockatiel and not a chicken and is always laying eggs so I can relate at least a little. In lighter news I think I need to get ~*Bandit Bird*~ a cozy corner or something because I noticed last night she sleeps hanging off the cage wall behind a thicket of leather toys. e: Bandit whenever I try to take a picture 
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Jun 5, 2018 15:28
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Used some of my inheritance to buy a great big cage. Dunno when it will arrive. It is extremely frustrating that I cannot ask the opinions of the ones who will be living in it.
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Jun 5, 2018 17:27
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Captain Log posted:This cockatoo is so mean, it bit THROUGH my friends palm and rips people to shreds. So naturally, I'm somehow best buddies with him. I get to pet him and he does this whenever I walker my way into the room. Parrots are weird. Their criteria for "best friend" is arbitrary sometimes. 
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Jun 5, 2018 21:23
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Mizuti posted:Parrots are weird. Their criteria for "best friend" is arbitrary sometimes. Lookit dem fluffenchops! Daww!
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Jun 5, 2018 22:47
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That bird has mutton chops like a Civil War General
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Jun 5, 2018 23:06
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help hes in my shirt and he won't come out budgies aren't supposed to do this ah poo poo he's gone to sleep
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Jun 6, 2018 04:21
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Fart real loud Idk man you're hosed, bird owns you now
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Jun 6, 2018 04:34
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Today I begged the specialty parrot place for photos of the little bird I put a deposit on.    He or she has top tier messy spaghetti mouth.  I'm in love!
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Jun 6, 2018 04:43
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So cute I might die
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Jun 6, 2018 05:14
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Green Cheeks always have the look of being on, or off, ADHD medicine. 
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Spare-Ohs posted:Today I begged the specialty parrot place for photos of the little bird I put a deposit on. ohhhh myyyy godddd
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Spare-Ohs posted:Today I begged the specialty parrot place for photos of the little bird I put a deposit on. turquoise conures are amazing
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Jun 6, 2018 08:01
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sorry to birbspam but it has been a glorious pigday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8FTkW108RM 
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Jun 6, 2018 13:07
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Never stop. I love Pigpig. Maybe I'm imagining it, but in that video it sometimes sounds like he mimics your tone when you speak to him. Makes me miss my little budgie buddies.
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Jun 6, 2018 16:03
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Anyone else's tiel molting? A lot more of Tito's feathers and bird dandruff all over stuff.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:43
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Oh yes. Pion dropped one of his two tail feathers the other day, and is having way more pin feathers around the neck. He's getting difficult to give scritches again.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:50
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Not great pictures, but Agrippa took his first vacation to the beach  dude we know you're back there
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Jun 6, 2018 22:00
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Halloween Jack posted:Not great pictures, but Agrippa took his first vacation to the beach The cutest little creeper 
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Jun 6, 2018 22:34
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iRend posted:sorry to birbspam but it has been a glorious pigday Ghost Borb
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Jun 6, 2018 22:44
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Captain Log posted:Ghost Borb Ghorb
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Jun 7, 2018 00:27
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Tendai posted:The cutest little creeper I can't remember if I posted this or not but my conure likes to hide in the couch cushions. 
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Jun 7, 2018 03:50
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So this is a new thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQKHpFVkzKE
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Jun 7, 2018 06:09
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iRend posted:So this is a new thing. Crouton and Galbedir are like that with ears. They also become automatic lickers after I have been for a run.
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Jun 7, 2018 06:30
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Crouton and Galbedir are like that with ears. They also become automatic lickers after I have been for a run. this is me with every animal ever, even without going for a run, because cystic fibrosis causes you to lose excess salt through sweating so animals see me as a big ol' giant salt lick
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzEV958BQQ
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Jun 7, 2018 10:46
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Does anyone else’s conure have an obsession with nomming on fingers? Because that and tormenting cockatiels are Bandit’s favorite things
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Jun 7, 2018 16:38
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I took Mochi to the boarder today, listening to him start to freak out after he realized I was leaving him alone in a strange place was heartbreaking. The place seems really nice and has aviary time and fresh food and birdie baking every day (and there were a ton of other conures boarding!), but he's never been more than a night alone without both of us, and he was at home in his own cage. He probably thinks I'm never coming back Bradbury sat at the top of his cage for the whole car ride and watched everything while we went to my friend he knows well who is watching him. As soon as we got his cage set down he settled in for a preen. Bradbo gives no fucks.
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Jun 7, 2018 19:00
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GoldStandardConure posted:this is me with every animal ever, even without going for a run, because cystic fibrosis causes you to lose excess salt through sweating so animals see me as a big ol' giant salt lick That’s hysterical and please god never go within fifty yards of a horse.
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Jun 7, 2018 21:23
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Captain Log posted:That’s hysterical and please god never go within fifty yards of a horse. Rip gsc, licked too much by Freckles and died.
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Jun 7, 2018 23:09
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All my birds have gone through a licking phase. It's like they suddenly discover their taste buds at a certain age. But Wandy liked it when I'd get home from work at a restaurant covered in about eighteen different types of food. I might have set a bad standard with her. 
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bobby licks my ear its weird
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Jun 8, 2018 17:00
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The first time I interacted with a hyacinth macaw it spent like 5 minutes having a vigorous tongue makeout sesh with my ear. It was simultaneously awesome and deeply weird.
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Jun 8, 2018 17:09
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the only hyacinth macaw I've met asked to pick it up so I did and it ripped two buttons off my coat before hopping back to its perch and asking for scritches
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Shark Sandwich posted:the only hyacinth macaw I've met asked to pick it up so I did and it ripped two buttons off my coat before hopping back to its perch and asking for scritches 
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