grief

Hi everyone! So, first thing, a quick little hello again! I was on this forum a little bit a few years back, but then got busy, and didn't use it for so long that I forgot I even had an account XD But I am very glad to be back now! Now, to the bigger point at hand here: My two and a bit year...

Wondering if anyone can help me. My amazing little conure passed away very suddenly on Sunday and I have so many unanswered questions that I’m hoping someone here might be able to answer for me. about 2 days before he passed, he wasn’t himself, he was very quiet (which was unusual for him!) he...

It’s been at least a month since I lost Gustavo. I feel like everyone else has moved on but not me. I still miss him and memories of the morning I just found his lifeless body still haunt me. I’m afraid to close my eyes because all I can see is my baby’s dead little face, I can still feel his...

Hey guys. As I already posted, my elderly heart rat (Cookie) has a tumor. It gets bigger every day and her walking has turned into a wobble. Do any of you guys have experience with telling when it’s time to put down a pet? I really wish that she would just go in her sleep peacefully but I have a...

Hello, I've very recently been hit with the grieving process of an old canary of mine. This happened when I was maybe a pre-teen, and I'm 23 now, so it would've been over a decade ago. I also generally have memory issues, so I may have difficulty remembering specifics. Please do exercise...

I'm very new to this forum and haven't used a forum in general for a long time. Before I get into it, I want to make sure this is the appropriate place to post. I had a canary years and years ago. I don't know why now, all these years later, but I'm just now processing my grief. There's some...

My precious sun conure, Rio passed away in their sleep last night. They just turned 1 a month ago and we never got to get a DNA test for them. Rio was always different compared to my other sun conure, Sonny. They were always wobbling and falling, never stable. We took them to the vet so many...

It's been 3 weeks since Xyla passed away. We had a necropsy done but it was hard to get her body to the vet quickly because I was doing every hour feedings for the baby that hatched on the same day that she died. Unfortunately there were no conclusive results. We have been watching her mate...

This last Thursday, my green cheek conure, Remmy, passed. He had sustained a serious head injury a few months back resulting in neurological damage and, and while he was recovering, it seems he re-agitated the situation, and died from what appeared to be a seizure of some kind. I am at a loss...

Today my baby bird died. He was only 4 months old and I’d only had him for 3 weeks. This is how it happened. I got home from work at about 1pm and was exhausted after staying up late the previous night doing some assignments and then having to get up and be at work by 6am. I wanted to have a...

*Long read-thankful for any advice* Four weeks ago my life was changed when I brought home my baby conure Billie. Two days ago it changed again when she passed away. She was just four months old, and my heart is broken to pieces. Our little family was me, my boyfriend, and Billie.. who we had...

Some of you may know who I'm talking about. My leopard gecko Icarus recently got sick, I took him to the vet in hopes of treating him. Sadly, he didn't get better. He wouldn't open his eyes, he wouldn't eat, until eventually this morning I found him laid out, obviously he hadn't made it. I...

I've been gone for a little while, but there's a good reason for it. I took my sweet little gecko, Icarus, to the vet. After giving him medicine she recommended I feed him waxworms, gut loaded crickets and pinky mice. I found the last suggestion odd, but after that I went to the pet store to...

:sorrow::budgie6: My young budgie Sulphur passed away somewhere between late last night and this morning.. I had suspected respiratory issues, but the vets didn't see much wrong with her. I saw a lot of the signs, and last night she started jumping off any perch I put her on to sit in the...

My cockatiel Pretty Bird died a few minutes ago...He been alive for longer than 20 years. I wish he didn't have to go. Heh, I'm gonna miss him so much. The noise...the sound he made before he passed..I had been hearing it for the past night or two..I thought nothing of it. Just thinking maybe...

Hi all. I have a long history with birds, going back most of my life to around my 11th birthday. I'm going to share my whole horrible history, including the various things horrible things I did in the process of learning to keep birds. Beginnings Before I had birds I'd had fish, which I'd...