Post by clt80 on Nov 19, 2020 12:43:07 GMT
Geri has faced some sort of tummy bug on and off for years.....she finally succumbed this morning
Geri came to me with Tom from the RSPCA, she was crested and such a little fragile budgie. Very quiet and they told me she was quite dependent on Tom; I never thought she was, or at least she wasn't when she came to me to live. At first with her blue cere I wasn't sure if she was male or female, but her attitude and eventually when her cere crusted it was confirmed she was indeed a lady.
Geri preferred to hang about with the ladies, there is a group of them who hang about together and don't really want to be bothered by the boys; Geri was part of this group. She had a real streak of determination; she never caused any bother really but she would stand up for herself if needed - she was partial to pecking others who were sitting where she wanted to sit
On and off for the past few years she had been coming inside for antibiotics; I was always told it was some sort of nasty tummy bug with her. She'd get better and go back with the others then months down the line would need to come back inside for a while. This time she had been inside for quite a while, I worried she would not get better this time. The past few days she has been very puffed, I had considered having her pts - for her sake really - but it is such an awful and stressful experience for them, the car journey, being taken off of me at the door as I can't go in, then being alone with someone she doesn't know in a place she isn't familiar with. I didn't think she'd make it through last night. I'd moved her to a smaller cage on Tuesday, one of the smallest so she didn't have to climb about to get food/millet/water etc, she could conserve her energy. I covered the cage a little last night, wished her goodnight and put her little radiator on for her. This morning my other half said she has gone.
I came into the room and as he picked her up she was still alive; she was so very weak, she could only move her head, she looked like she'd had a stroke. I placed her on my chest and wrapped her in my soft dressing gown. She lay there for over an hour, just breathing and occasionally moving her head. It was one of them moments when you just don't know what to do for the best. I decided to just let her hear my heartbeat and be warm next to me whilst we lay quietly on my bed was the best I could do for her.
Geri - you were such a sweet girl, and goodness you were a fighter - you really hung on until the very end, I have never seen anything like it in all my time. I will miss you, I love you, the girls and other buds will miss you. I will miss seeing you little face and your little crest on your head - you are being missed so much already. Fly high baby girl, you are no longer in pain, we all love you xxxx
Geri came to me with Tom from the RSPCA, she was crested and such a little fragile budgie. Very quiet and they told me she was quite dependent on Tom; I never thought she was, or at least she wasn't when she came to me to live. At first with her blue cere I wasn't sure if she was male or female, but her attitude and eventually when her cere crusted it was confirmed she was indeed a lady.
Geri preferred to hang about with the ladies, there is a group of them who hang about together and don't really want to be bothered by the boys; Geri was part of this group. She had a real streak of determination; she never caused any bother really but she would stand up for herself if needed - she was partial to pecking others who were sitting where she wanted to sit
On and off for the past few years she had been coming inside for antibiotics; I was always told it was some sort of nasty tummy bug with her. She'd get better and go back with the others then months down the line would need to come back inside for a while. This time she had been inside for quite a while, I worried she would not get better this time. The past few days she has been very puffed, I had considered having her pts - for her sake really - but it is such an awful and stressful experience for them, the car journey, being taken off of me at the door as I can't go in, then being alone with someone she doesn't know in a place she isn't familiar with. I didn't think she'd make it through last night. I'd moved her to a smaller cage on Tuesday, one of the smallest so she didn't have to climb about to get food/millet/water etc, she could conserve her energy. I covered the cage a little last night, wished her goodnight and put her little radiator on for her. This morning my other half said she has gone.
I came into the room and as he picked her up she was still alive; she was so very weak, she could only move her head, she looked like she'd had a stroke. I placed her on my chest and wrapped her in my soft dressing gown. She lay there for over an hour, just breathing and occasionally moving her head. It was one of them moments when you just don't know what to do for the best. I decided to just let her hear my heartbeat and be warm next to me whilst we lay quietly on my bed was the best I could do for her.
Geri - you were such a sweet girl, and goodness you were a fighter - you really hung on until the very end, I have never seen anything like it in all my time. I will miss you, I love you, the girls and other buds will miss you. I will miss seeing you little face and your little crest on your head - you are being missed so much already. Fly high baby girl, you are no longer in pain, we all love you xxxx