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Theo’s now home, and I’m not happy at all. My mum’s boyfriend took me there to pick her up and drop us off home. I get there, wait for 20 mins, and then I go in to talk to the AV, she explains to me about the antibiotics that there’s 2 ways I can give it to her either a) a 'paste' or b) in her water. I asked what she thought would be best, and she said the paste, so I went with the paste. She said to go wait at the desk at the front and she’ll bring the antibiotics out and she didn’t mention the bird, so I’m thinking OK, I’ll go out and wait, so I did.
I go out and she comes out a few minutes later with the antibiotics. I paid for the tests, and consultations etc, and I stand there.. waiting and waiting. I still didn’t have my bird though.
Oh I was a bit worried by now, ’cause the AV walked away to tend to someone else. I interrupted the woman at the reception while she was on the phone "UH, excuse me.. may I please have my bird, the AV just walked away without giving my bird, but I got the antibiotics for her".. then the reception lady was like "oh, sorry, the male bird" and I was starting to get a bit p!@#$%^ off because it was on the computer that Theo’s a female, not a male, and I can’t tell you how many times I corrected them, they kept saying "him" repeatedly like they were trying to tick me off big time.
The woman went and got her and brought her out, and that’s when I started fuming. I was really rude because I was told she’d be put in a BIRD cage with food and water - what did they do? they kept her in the travel cage all night with a little container of seed, and there was a tiny water dish that was sitting inside the container with the seed in it. I asked why she wasn’t kept in the cage and got the response "we don’t usually put birds in bird cages unless it’s completely necessary". WHY SAY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN? are they even on this earth.
This is what she was in all night..
And this is how the water and food dish was..
After that I walked out, couldn’t be bothered. Though what I paid was pretty pathetic, it was worth it, I just hope the antibiotics work.
On the way home, just before we drove off, the freaking carrier started leaking.. when I got home I found out that the carrier was full of water, grr! I got her inside, cleaned and scrubbed the heck out of a spare cage, and put her in. I was sitting there watching her, and noticed she has a HUGE chunk of feathers missing from her neck, I don’t know how that happened, only god knows. She also has the filthiest tail, I assumed it’s from sitting in her feces all night.
/rant over.
I don’t have any other Avian Vets nearby, I have been to her quite a few times and have never had problems, well apart from the time where the stupid Vet (NOT Avian Vet) ripped the bandage off one of my 'tiels toes after he had to have his toe-nail removed.
Here's a photo I took of Theo when I put her in the cage.. I gave her lots of scritches, she seems to be really itchy where the heap of feathers are missing on her neck.
Theo’s now home, and I’m not happy at all. My mum’s boyfriend took me there to pick her up and drop us off home. I get there, wait for 20 mins, and then I go in to talk to the AV, she explains to me about the antibiotics that there’s 2 ways I can give it to her either a) a 'paste' or b) in her water. I asked what she thought would be best, and she said the paste, so I went with the paste. She said to go wait at the desk at the front and she’ll bring the antibiotics out and she didn’t mention the bird, so I’m thinking OK, I’ll go out and wait, so I did.
I go out and she comes out a few minutes later with the antibiotics. I paid for the tests, and consultations etc, and I stand there.. waiting and waiting. I still didn’t have my bird though.
Oh I was a bit worried by now, ’cause the AV walked away to tend to someone else. I interrupted the woman at the reception while she was on the phone "UH, excuse me.. may I please have my bird, the AV just walked away without giving my bird, but I got the antibiotics for her".. then the reception lady was like "oh, sorry, the male bird" and I was starting to get a bit p!@#$%^ off because it was on the computer that Theo’s a female, not a male, and I can’t tell you how many times I corrected them, they kept saying "him" repeatedly like they were trying to tick me off big time. The woman went and got her and brought her out, and that’s when I started fuming. I was really rude because I was told she’d be put in a BIRD cage with food and water - what did they do? they kept her in the travel cage all night with a little container of seed, and there was a tiny water dish that was sitting inside the container with the seed in it. I asked why she wasn’t kept in the cage and got the response "we don’t usually put birds in bird cages unless it’s completely necessary". WHY SAY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN? are they even on this earth.
This is what she was in all night..
And this is how the water and food dish was..
After that I walked out, couldn’t be bothered. Though what I paid was pretty pathetic, it was worth it, I just hope the antibiotics work.
On the way home, just before we drove off, the freaking carrier started leaking.. when I got home I found out that the carrier was full of water, grr! I got her inside, cleaned and scrubbed the heck out of a spare cage, and put her in. I was sitting there watching her, and noticed she has a HUGE chunk of feathers missing from her neck, I don’t know how that happened, only god knows. She also has the filthiest tail, I assumed it’s from sitting in her feces all night.
/rant over.
I don’t have any other Avian Vets nearby, I have been to her quite a few times and have never had problems, well apart from the time where the stupid Vet (NOT Avian Vet) ripped the bandage off one of my 'tiels toes after he had to have his toe-nail removed.
Here's a photo I took of Theo when I put her in the cage.. I gave her lots of scritches, she seems to be really itchy where the heap of feathers are missing on her neck.
