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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 21, 2023 13:39:06 GMT
Chocobo is so helpful  |
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Post by Ira on Feb 22, 2023 9:04:46 GMT
Providing you with extra resistance there!  |
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Post by Loz on Feb 22, 2023 9:30:29 GMT
One time Chocobo landed on the bar as I was lifting it. Ruined the entire set.
It's not the weight, it's the fact I completely cracked up.
Fun fact - it's impossible to lift weights when you're laughing 😃
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 22, 2023 11:01:31 GMT
I'm sure she was shouting words of encouragement |
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Post by Loz on Feb 22, 2023 11:05:04 GMT
I'm sure she was shouting words of encouragement 🤣 She always does. It's kind of her thing |
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Post by Loz on Feb 24, 2023 18:24:31 GMT
Chocobo has excelled herself this afternoon and I have a worrying time ahead of me now.
After lunch, I needed to go shopping so I did a head-count as I normally do. Chocobo missing but she turned up in a little hidey-hole behind the sofa near the bookcase. I figured she's OK and left her to it.
Having returned home and noticed that Chocobo hadn't moved, I suspected that she was either stuck or she was sitting on an egg. She is still at egg-weight so this seemed the more likely option.
An hour later and she still hadn't moved. I approached her to see if she would give her "Too close to my nest" alarm call, she didn't. Yep, she was stuck. In her efforts to chew here way through the side of the bookcase, she must have forced her foot into the gap between the skirting board and the wooden floor, in order to gain a better purchase or increase the pressure. By ill-chance, this is the foot that bears the ID ring and it was the ring that was preventing her from withdrawing her foot.
I won't go through everything I tried to free her. I broke a metal file I used to try to lever a bigger gap between board and floor. I tried for an hour with increasing desperation to free her. In the end I had filed the gap bigger either side of where she was stuck and used some needle-nosed pliers to gently push the metal ID ring towards one of the bigger gaps. I was so close but nothing was working. I had decided to try my various neighbours to see if anyone had a crowbar when I noticed Chocobo had manoeuvred herself almost all the way out. A little nudge on the ID ring and she was free.
She's not a happy girl. She's been crying and she is currently one-legged with her sore foot pulled up close to her body. She has tried to use it but it's obviously too painful. Herman visited her to see if she was OK. She's gone to sleep now in her own cage. I have put one of the feeding platforms back in there, having removed it a couple of days ago, in case she wants to sit on that instead of perching. There's no external signs of damage to her foot but she may have sprained her foot, her leg or she may have broken a toe. I was careful as I could be when trying to free her but you never know.
I have a vet appointment on Monday morning - a new practice because my existing one lost their exotic vet in December (explains why I never heard back from her I guess).
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She woke up just then and had a bite to eat and is now back on her perch, fluffed up and very unhappy.
I have filled the skirting board gap where the incident took place but I'll need to go around the rest of the room to look for other danger-spots. I feel too sick to eat.
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Post by blueelephant on Feb 24, 2023 19:34:40 GMT
Argh!!!! Why do they do this sort of thing on a Friday night? Poor little bean.
I hope she seems better tomorrow. Sending her big get well hugs from here. X
You are right though. 100 budgies would not cause as much trouble as one Chocobo!
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 24, 2023 19:49:46 GMT
Oh no poor Chocobo. I hope she's ok and just feeling sorry for herself 😔
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Feb 24, 2023 21:12:38 GMT
Hopefully she wakes up Sat morning feeling Ok and her usual mischievous self.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 24, 2023 22:08:49 GMT
Are you going to keep her in a cage tomorrow?
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Post by Loz on Feb 25, 2023 2:12:45 GMT
Yes, cage day tomorrow for Chocobo, to keep her safe and to keep the budgies from aggravating her.
Is it turmeric that is the natural painkiller and anti-inflamatory? I shall buy some in the morning.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Feb 25, 2023 3:48:09 GMT
I seem to recall Hezz recommended red pepper rolled in a little bead and put into the beak? |
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Post by Loz on Feb 25, 2023 8:09:26 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 25, 2023 8:15:59 GMT
I think it is turmeric that was recommended. I seem to recall Hezz recommended red pepper rolled in a little bead and put into the beak? |
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 25, 2023 9:09:36 GMT
loz I love the last video, so good to see her back to her normal self. I do wonder what she is saying to you. Is she telling you off for taking ages to free her, saying thanks or just giving you a shopping list of treats to buy today?
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