socrjul
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Hi Friends!
New member, but a long time lurker. Just a quick rundown of history with a link to a video of the event:
https://home.nest.com/camera/ca54e58f05bb43b3acfc57af6823fa39/clips
I have a 10 year old male caique named Tocino. About a week and a half ago I witnessed what I thought to be either a cardiac or neurological event. He was in his cage making an odd chattering noise, and I took him out thinking he wanted attention. When I took him from the cage he was listless and couldn't really keep his balance, his left leg hung limp and couldn't grip. At the time, I had no idea what it was so I rushed him out of the house (fumes?) and kept him in the car but thought that was it. Withing five minutes he rebounded 100%.
I don't think it was fumes as there was no respiratory distress. My normal avian vet retired and I'm devastated. I took him to another avian vet last weekend and ran a full diagnostic. Exam was normal, labs came back within normal limits, gram stain had blooming yeast and he was given 1 wk antibiotics.
Last night, I caught the above video. Again it seems like he has weakness and is unable to stand. At the end he sort of panics and when I got him he seems a little out of it, but again, fully recovered. So thinking about going to the vet again or making a long drive to another specialist in NJ/NY area. Also of note, there are no new exposures in the home environment - no new toys, or food (Harrison), and has 100% supervised play, well because he is a caique
Does this look familiar to anyone?
New member, but a long time lurker. Just a quick rundown of history with a link to a video of the event:
https://home.nest.com/camera/ca54e58f05bb43b3acfc57af6823fa39/clips
I have a 10 year old male caique named Tocino. About a week and a half ago I witnessed what I thought to be either a cardiac or neurological event. He was in his cage making an odd chattering noise, and I took him out thinking he wanted attention. When I took him from the cage he was listless and couldn't really keep his balance, his left leg hung limp and couldn't grip. At the time, I had no idea what it was so I rushed him out of the house (fumes?) and kept him in the car but thought that was it. Withing five minutes he rebounded 100%.
I don't think it was fumes as there was no respiratory distress. My normal avian vet retired and I'm devastated. I took him to another avian vet last weekend and ran a full diagnostic. Exam was normal, labs came back within normal limits, gram stain had blooming yeast and he was given 1 wk antibiotics.
Last night, I caught the above video. Again it seems like he has weakness and is unable to stand. At the end he sort of panics and when I got him he seems a little out of it, but again, fully recovered. So thinking about going to the vet again or making a long drive to another specialist in NJ/NY area. Also of note, there are no new exposures in the home environment - no new toys, or food (Harrison), and has 100% supervised play, well because he is a caique
Does this look familiar to anyone?