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Post by sweetpea on Sept 22, 2013 16:12:01 GMT
Sorry Hezz, I am adding to the health section...  During a fight (most probably between Thomas & Phineas - but it's hard to keep track!) Thomas has got an eye injury. I suddenly noticed his eye was all red. So alarming. Fortunately, the eye itself appears to be fine - he is moving it around & closing it etc. He also seems fine in himself & has been flying about & landing well so vision must be ok. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Vet visit? He's rubbing it a lot & the blood has mostly gone (it now looks less scary than this photo). I am thinking that it must be a scratch near the eye. If he wasn't so darn difficult to catch, I'd throw him back home for some rest & recuperation. Fortunately Phineas has not been bothering him so far (C & B locked up).  |
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Post by mizloco on Sept 22, 2013 16:31:14 GMT
Oh sweetpea I'm sorry you must be worried. I had a fright with Ernie today too. Hope he's ok.
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 22, 2013 16:38:20 GMT
Oh sweetpea I'm sorry you must be worried. I had a fright with Ernie today too. Hope he's ok. Sent from my HTC One using proboards It seems like we have had similar frights today.  I am glad your Ernie appears okay, even if he does look like he's just auditioned for a horror film.  Thomas is behaving normally too - he has just been giving Cagney the glad eye, with his injured eye, so he *must* be okay.... I put Phineas back home so only Thomas is out right now. At least this way a stray toenail, attached to a kung-fu foot, can't make its way to his eye again... |
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Post by mizloco on Sept 22, 2013 16:47:23 GMT
So small and yet such a huge worry. Budgies eh   Sent from my HTC One using proboards |
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Post by lemonade on Sept 22, 2013 17:04:12 GMT
Oh sweetpea, his wee eye looks sore Maybe see how the eye is tomorrow then decide if a vet visit will be needed? Hope he's ok. |
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Post by OP on Sept 22, 2013 17:14:47 GMT
My goodness me, feisty little gals & guys aren't they. Who would believe they would do such damage to one another. Having said that I watched a program about the Australian wild ones and saw them fighting over a female. By they went at hammer and tongs. It looked as though the loser had a broken wing. Well they are hard in Australia so I led to believe.  |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 22, 2013 21:37:19 GMT
Oh sweetpea, his wee eye looks sore Maybe see how the eye is tomorrow then decide if a vet visit will be needed? Hope he's ok. Yes, good idea. I will reassess in the morning. |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 22, 2013 21:40:29 GMT
My goodness me, feisty little gals & guys aren't they. Who would believe they would do such damage to one another. Having said that I watched a program about the Australian wild ones and saw them fighting over a female. By they went at hammer and tongs. It looked as though the loser had a broken wing. Well they are hard in Australia so I led to believe. I have probably seen the same clip, or something similar. My Phineas & Thomas get into quite bad scraps over Cagney, who isn't female, but clearly has something irresistibly charming about him! |
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Post by birdguhl on Sept 22, 2013 22:08:15 GMT
Sorry you've had this upset with him. Hopefully you'll find he is ok in am. We've had a bit of a bloodstained day today.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2013 0:12:53 GMT
Golden eye, get some from the chemist and use a cotton bud to dap on the sore eye, this should fix the eye in 2 or 3 treatments.
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Post by Hezz on Sept 23, 2013 0:47:29 GMT
Bathing the eye in cold weak black tea is supposed to be soothing as well. Good luck, Sweetpea! |
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Post by nettles on Sept 23, 2013 0:57:07 GMT
Poor Thomas Lots of sympathy and some treats and Im sure he'll be as right as rain in the morning! |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 23, 2013 9:31:31 GMT
Hello all. Thankfully, Thomas is perfectly fine this morning.  In fact, had I not seen all the blood with my own eyes I would not believe anything had happened. Thank you all for your suggestions. Hezz, I had forgotten about weak black tea - good idea. @corie, Golden Eye sounds like a good thing to have in the budgie medicine cabinet/box. Now I am left with the bigger problem of how to deal with/prevent the fights. |
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Post by Hezz on Sept 24, 2013 1:53:29 GMT
Your boys and their fighting! I can only make one suggestion, besides isolating them from each other, and that raises that "H" word again! They all need one good woman to crack the whip over them.  |
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Post by OP on Sept 24, 2013 6:36:56 GMT
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In fact, had I not seen all the blood with my own eyes I would not believe anything had happened.
