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Jogging around the block
So I went to work today as I do every sunday, said hello to my other family and went to work on preparing food. Moments later I heard a flutter and a crash and ran into the other room to see Ruby (Scarlet Macaw) on the bottom of her cage showing neurological signs. I immediately called my employer and insisted that she needed to be seen NOW. I watched her carefully so I could tell the vet everything I knew about her situation. She was bobbing her head in an odd manner, she wasn't perching correctly, she had no ballance, and she was pulling herself across the perch with her beak. I took her to the Emergency vet in Oakdale and they took her into the back and got her warm and on Oxygen. Four hours later they said they didn't know what was wrong with her and gave me a list of options and all the pricing for those options. I called my employer and told him so he called his regular vet directly. Five minutes later the decision had been made to put her down to end her suffering. I was heart broken needless to say.
I went into see her and she was laying on her belly clearly in distress. We stared into each others eyes for a long time before I left. I could see in her stare that it was time. I selfishly wanted to give her treatment and antibiodics and an over night stay to give her the benefit of the doubt, but after sharing our moment I knew it was time. She seemed at peace with her fate and that was what really hit me hard. She was 25 years old or more and almost entirely naked from plucking. I felt terrible for her pain and suffering, almost as if it were my fault and not the fault of some horrible neurological disease.
I wasn't able to be with her when they put her down because I wasn't allowed to be due to the way they perform the procedure; but I was with her spirtually until the end. She was a beautiful baby and she will be truely missed.
Fly free my wonderful Ruby. I did not know you well, but I loved you all the same. May the rainbow bridge bring you peace.
For those of you reading this please do not use the word loss in your replies... she is not lost, she is simply waiting at the rainbow bridge. Death is a part of life, there for we live forever.
Thank you in advance for all of your sympathy and kind words, they are appreciated endlessly.
I went into see her and she was laying on her belly clearly in distress. We stared into each others eyes for a long time before I left. I could see in her stare that it was time. I selfishly wanted to give her treatment and antibiodics and an over night stay to give her the benefit of the doubt, but after sharing our moment I knew it was time. She seemed at peace with her fate and that was what really hit me hard. She was 25 years old or more and almost entirely naked from plucking. I felt terrible for her pain and suffering, almost as if it were my fault and not the fault of some horrible neurological disease.
I wasn't able to be with her when they put her down because I wasn't allowed to be due to the way they perform the procedure; but I was with her spirtually until the end. She was a beautiful baby and she will be truely missed.
Fly free my wonderful Ruby. I did not know you well, but I loved you all the same. May the rainbow bridge bring you peace.
For those of you reading this please do not use the word loss in your replies... she is not lost, she is simply waiting at the rainbow bridge. Death is a part of life, there for we live forever.
Thank you in advance for all of your sympathy and kind words, they are appreciated endlessly.
Fly Free Ruby!
