Post by birdguhl on Mar 30, 2013 21:06:35 GMT
Right, I am back with the whole quarantine thing again… I’ll try to be clear about what I want: I need some stern words / moral support / absolution for breaking the rules (again).
DON’T PANIC!!! I haven’t broken the rules yet. But I am in danger of doing so. That is why I need some of the above.
The situation is that Woody is now off the antibiotics after his respiratory problem. He seems better but it is difficult to tell if he is completely well because he is still miserable about being the gooseberry with the lovey dovey pair Berry and Luee. I keep anxiously looking at him and trying to decide if he is okay or not. But I have a feeling that in the current situation it is not going to become completely clear.
Meanwhile in another room I have the delightful Cheeky Charlie who is lovely and playful and obsessed with his own mirror image, but happily so.
I have had Charlie for just over a week. I had some worries about him for the first day or two (fluffed up, sleepy) but he has been fine since then. Hopefully that was just a bit of stress after 3 moves.
Charlie is eight years old and has always been on his own. In the transit between his former owner and me, he spent a few days in a room with two other budgies who are pair and long known to the person who passed them on to me. There was also another bird (a kind of parrot) who is well. There was no direct contact between them and Charlie.
Given the risk to Woody’s mental and physical health from being isolated, could there be any justification – given Charlie’s very limited contact with other birds – for shortening quarantine?
Of course, there is a potential risk to Charlie from Woody if he is still ill.
And – just to make it more complicated – Berry’s feather condition continues to worsen. He is scruffier than ever. Luee has certainly not fallen for him on the basis of his looks. He may have the dreaded Beak and Feather Disease, in which case of course I shouldn’t introduce any other birds to him at all. BUT this would leave Woody isolated for ever, and I reasoned that Charlie is already 8 years old so arguably it is less morally corrupt to put him at risk than it would a very young bird.
So, if you can get your head round all of that and give me any comfort or advice, I would be grateful. My budgie life seems so complicated and replete with difficult moral issues!
DON’T PANIC!!! I haven’t broken the rules yet. But I am in danger of doing so. That is why I need some of the above.
The situation is that Woody is now off the antibiotics after his respiratory problem. He seems better but it is difficult to tell if he is completely well because he is still miserable about being the gooseberry with the lovey dovey pair Berry and Luee. I keep anxiously looking at him and trying to decide if he is okay or not. But I have a feeling that in the current situation it is not going to become completely clear.
Meanwhile in another room I have the delightful Cheeky Charlie who is lovely and playful and obsessed with his own mirror image, but happily so.
I have had Charlie for just over a week. I had some worries about him for the first day or two (fluffed up, sleepy) but he has been fine since then. Hopefully that was just a bit of stress after 3 moves.
Charlie is eight years old and has always been on his own. In the transit between his former owner and me, he spent a few days in a room with two other budgies who are pair and long known to the person who passed them on to me. There was also another bird (a kind of parrot) who is well. There was no direct contact between them and Charlie.
Given the risk to Woody’s mental and physical health from being isolated, could there be any justification – given Charlie’s very limited contact with other birds – for shortening quarantine?
Of course, there is a potential risk to Charlie from Woody if he is still ill.
And – just to make it more complicated – Berry’s feather condition continues to worsen. He is scruffier than ever. Luee has certainly not fallen for him on the basis of his looks. He may have the dreaded Beak and Feather Disease, in which case of course I shouldn’t introduce any other birds to him at all. BUT this would leave Woody isolated for ever, and I reasoned that Charlie is already 8 years old so arguably it is less morally corrupt to put him at risk than it would a very young bird.
So, if you can get your head round all of that and give me any comfort or advice, I would be grateful. My budgie life seems so complicated and replete with difficult moral issues!
And wouldn't it be good if we could all sit around the table together and explain ...... "Berry, do you realise how much you have hurt your good friend Woody, by taking up with the new-comer, Luee, and completely ignoring Woody???" Oh, in a perfect world!