Post by birdguhl on Mar 23, 2013 21:44:30 GMT
After having been confined to a small cage for the last week and caught twice daily for meds, Woody took his chance to escape last night when I was trying to give him his evening dose. Sigh. He is meant to be having another week of Baytril.
So, he was out all night - cold and hungry and with those bacteria proliferating away. Not good at all.
Although he has visited the cage for food during the day today, he is exquisitely sensitive to the merest movement on my part towards him and he exits the cage. No wonder - he knows I want him back in there and it has mega negative associations for him now.
So he has now missed two doses and although I know for sure he is hungry, he has turned his beak up at the little blob of seeds laced with Baytril I have made available.
He is now climbing all over the outside of the big cage where the other two are and getting agitated.
Oh whew - he is in there eating those drugged seeds right now! At least he is getting some Baytril. I'll now be able to give him some more food.
I have been thinking the stress of not being able to get to the others and seeing them eating to their hearts' content would be really stressful - and hence risky - for him. But if I let him back in there, the reinfection risk increases and it will be much more traumatic trying to catch him out of the big cage again.
I think I will just have to cover the others up so he is less distracted by them and put some really nice food right at the back of the small cage and hope he opts to stay there. I can't move more quickly than he can!
So, he was out all night - cold and hungry and with those bacteria proliferating away. Not good at all.
Although he has visited the cage for food during the day today, he is exquisitely sensitive to the merest movement on my part towards him and he exits the cage. No wonder - he knows I want him back in there and it has mega negative associations for him now.
So he has now missed two doses and although I know for sure he is hungry, he has turned his beak up at the little blob of seeds laced with Baytril I have made available.
He is now climbing all over the outside of the big cage where the other two are and getting agitated.
Oh whew - he is in there eating those drugged seeds right now! At least he is getting some Baytril. I'll now be able to give him some more food.
I have been thinking the stress of not being able to get to the others and seeing them eating to their hearts' content would be really stressful - and hence risky - for him. But if I let him back in there, the reinfection risk increases and it will be much more traumatic trying to catch him out of the big cage again.
I think I will just have to cover the others up so he is less distracted by them and put some really nice food right at the back of the small cage and hope he opts to stay there. I can't move more quickly than he can!
