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Post by easttex on Feb 4, 2016 13:28:04 GMT -5
Peppy has been doing pretty well lately, but he gave me a scare this morning that I will not soon forget. I was reading with him and Allie in the bird room when I heard a crash, followed by thrashing wings. He was at the bottom of his cage, flapping and wobbling. I took him out and tried to hold him, but all of a sudden he would have a weird twitch and would try to fly away, very awkwardly. He did that several times before I wrapped him in a towel. His breathing was ragged, and I really thought it was death throes. But he calmed down after a few minutes and gradually came back to normal. I don't know if it was something physical or something that scared him, though I can't imagine what, since the window shutters were closed. He has his next Houston appointment next week, but I've emailed his vet to let her know. My poor sweet guy doesn't need another health complication.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 4, 2016 16:18:24 GMT -5
If he was thrashing around and twitching could it have been a seizure?
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Post by easttex on Feb 4, 2016 17:11:55 GMT -5
I wondered that myself. His vet said that normally after a seizure, they'll be out of it for a few hours, and he bounced back pretty quickly. I'm keeping an eye on him for now, and will take him back before Wednesday if anything else happens.
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Post by Jan and Shah on Feb 4, 2016 17:31:40 GMT -5
Hard to say what caused it but hopefully the little guy is over it now. I had a cockatiel that, if she moulted a large feather and it fell to the ground, she would go hysterical and fall to the cage floor and start flapping madly. The moult was not something I looked forward to with her - night and day it went on. Hopefully it was just that he got a shock and nothing more sinister.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Feb 4, 2016 18:41:45 GMT -5
I wondered that myself. His vet said that normally after a seizure, they'll be out of it for a few hours, and he bounced back pretty quickly. I'm keeping an eye on him for now, and will take him back before Wednesday if anything else happens. Just this past weekend I was watching the house and animals of a family friend while they were away. One of their dogs is on seizure medications but still had one when I was there. Never having been around a dog in a seizure before I searched up what to do. What I read said that it can take several hours for recovery but the dog was fine and wanting to wander the fields just 10 minutes later as if nothing ever happened. So a seizure could be possible with Peppy. |
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Post by Caseysmom on Feb 4, 2016 18:51:09 GMT -5
I sure hope it was just something that panicked him. Casey has been spooked by things and flown off her cage in a panic, her heart is normally racing when I go and get her too. But that would be scary to see him twitch and panic.
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Post by easttex on Feb 4, 2016 19:24:19 GMT -5
I hope it was a spooking, too, but it was more intense than any I've dealt with before. As far as I know, he's never had a seizure before, but I'll be keeping on eye on him as much as I can. They weren't planning to take blood on the next visit, but I'm starting him back on vitamin k, just in case. On top of everything else, my sweetie is a bit of a bleeder.
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Post by aaron on Feb 4, 2016 23:23:41 GMT -5
Gosh, I hope it is just panic too. Scary stuff! Poor little guy.
Jan, my parents' cockatiel is like that too. He is terrified of his feathers once he pulls them out.
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Post by Angela on Feb 5, 2016 4:21:40 GMT -5
Oh that sounds very scary! Hope the poor little guy is ok.
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Post by zim on Feb 5, 2016 11:40:43 GMT -5
Hoping all is well with Peppy. Whatever happened, it indeed sounds like it was awful and scary  . |
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Post by easttex on Feb 5, 2016 13:30:54 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. So far so good today.  |
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Post by biteybird on Feb 5, 2016 17:12:02 GMT -5
Blimey, hope Peppy is OK. At least he has a supermum who will do her utmost to get the problem sorted out.
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Post by easttex on Feb 6, 2016 11:17:55 GMT -5
At the risk of making myself persona non grata to Quakers everywhere, I have a confession to make. Many years ago, I worked with a woman who had a Quaker. I had only had a lovebird at that point, and she invited me over to meet her bird. She was pretty, but she appeared to have zero interest in me whatsoever. It was obvious that my friend had to handle her carefully so she wouldn't get bit. I compared her to the friendliness of my Sasha, and I left wondering why would you get a Quaker when you could have a lovebird. Fast-forward and my songbird rehabber friend is looking for a home for Peppy. Owner died, cage bound, 21 years old, and his plight touched me. I figured I would never push him to be handled, but would just take care of him as well as I could. One thing led to another and it turns out that he is the sweetest, cuddliest thing imaginable. I had no inkling I would become so besotted.
My apologies to all Quakers - I just didn't know!
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Post by msdani1981 on Feb 7, 2016 0:29:43 GMT -5
I have to say, before he passed away my dad suffered Grand Mal seizures from time to time. He usually would fall asleep afterward and stay out for the rest of the day/night. However, on the Friday before he died he had his last one. His ex-sister in law was visiting, so my mom took the opportunity to run some errands. I had just stopped by to visit, and had only been there a few minutes when he started twitching. I immediately went to him and held him, so he wouldn't hit his head on the rail of his hospital bed. I won't go into detail, but afterward I felt him start to relax and told him to go to sleep. He only slept for about 10 minutes, then he was awake and alert, talking to visitors (which was good, because he lost the ability to speak on Saturday).
Anyway....I think Peppy had a seizure, too.
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Post by easttex on Feb 7, 2016 10:55:52 GMT -5
I'm afraid you and wsteinhoff might well be right, Dani. This morning when I got him up, I noticed something was making some of his head feathers stick together. I'd love to be able to laugh it off as bed head, but I can't. They weren't like that when I covered him last night, and he had nothing in the cage but water and dry food, so I think it must have been saliva. He was unusually quiet for a while. I expect he's going to have to give up some blood this week.
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