kanth
Strolling the yard
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- 7/6/18
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Took my green cheek to a new vet today, my other vet is far away and this vet was only 20 minutes. It was supposed to be a quick checkup, he isn’t due for one but he doesn’t get nervous as easily as my rescue birds, he’s from a breeder. I was going to check out the new vet to see if I should bring my afraid of everything rescues to this vet. I was telling the vet about his behavioral problems, he’s been flying on other cages including my lovebirds who hate him and it always starts a fight (I always stop it before it goes anywhere), and he won’t recall or do any basic training because he always gets distracted. The vet told me he studied bird behavior and not just anatomy/medicine so I was looking for his opinion, but he took Galeo to a different room and clipped him. REALLY clipped him, he drops like a rock. I normally never let animals at the vet out of my sight so I can’t help but blame myself for this. I hurt my shoulder right before leaving and the appointment was early in the morning so I wasn’t 100% there. I told the vet Galeo has a tendency to pluck but he took him from fully flighted to dropping like a rock in a couple minutes, did he think that would have no effect on him? He doesn’t pluck much, he plucks around pin feathers and sometimes plucks when he’s bored or upset but 95% of the time his feathers look completely normal. There are feathers littered all over the bottom of his cage, this is the most he’s ever plucked, I feel so guilty I’ve been playing his favorite cartoons and giving him his favorite flavor of baby food to try and distract him but it’s not helping much