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This happened before about a year ago, if I had to guess around the same time as now, after my canary's molt (stopped seeing loose tail feathers in/around his cage).
What happened was he bites his back, but he doesn't know when to stop and it got to the point where he started bleeding a little, but I sat the whole day trying to get it to stop, tearing but it kind of worked. Woke up the next morning, everything was fine, I went out for a bit, came back and there were 2-3 drops of blood and this time it looked worse, I took it to the vet. They said if I wanted to cremate him but I couldn't bare to lose him, I didn't think it was that serious.
They did surgery on him and he pulled through and got better, although there was a weird lump on his back which I guess was the injury he caused himself, but he was better.
Fast forward about a year, some of his tail feathers are dropping, but I notice he keeps going at one, but I thought nothing of it and rather assumed he was trying to groom himself, etc. About a week ago, I realized that he was harming himself again. So again I kept him by my side more to keep an eye on him, gave him fruits/veggies to distract him when I noticed he wouldn't stop. Eventually again, he stopped and I assumed he was better.
Now, I came back home from school and there are three drops of blood in his cage. I found out my father was here and he cut some of his back feathers, about 2/4 or 3/4 is length is left and applied a little neosporin from what he told me.
Currently, I think my canary is trying to pull out a lose feather from what I've just seen, but I'm afraid he'll cause himself to start bleeding again.
Honestly, I'm getting too stressed, this is my first pet and I never would have thought to be stressed and care so much for something so little, yet he's precious to me and I hate seeing him like this, but I don't want to take his life. What do you reckon I should do? Have any one else had a similar situation?
What happened was he bites his back, but he doesn't know when to stop and it got to the point where he started bleeding a little, but I sat the whole day trying to get it to stop, tearing but it kind of worked. Woke up the next morning, everything was fine, I went out for a bit, came back and there were 2-3 drops of blood and this time it looked worse, I took it to the vet. They said if I wanted to cremate him but I couldn't bare to lose him, I didn't think it was that serious.
They did surgery on him and he pulled through and got better, although there was a weird lump on his back which I guess was the injury he caused himself, but he was better.
Fast forward about a year, some of his tail feathers are dropping, but I notice he keeps going at one, but I thought nothing of it and rather assumed he was trying to groom himself, etc. About a week ago, I realized that he was harming himself again. So again I kept him by my side more to keep an eye on him, gave him fruits/veggies to distract him when I noticed he wouldn't stop. Eventually again, he stopped and I assumed he was better.
Now, I came back home from school and there are three drops of blood in his cage. I found out my father was here and he cut some of his back feathers, about 2/4 or 3/4 is length is left and applied a little neosporin from what he told me.
Currently, I think my canary is trying to pull out a lose feather from what I've just seen, but I'm afraid he'll cause himself to start bleeding again.
Honestly, I'm getting too stressed, this is my first pet and I never would have thought to be stressed and care so much for something so little, yet he's precious to me and I hate seeing him like this, but I don't want to take his life. What do you reckon I should do? Have any one else had a similar situation?