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Post by csissons on Nov 28, 2020 3:40:10 GMT -5
So I have a 6 year old Quaker, about 4 years ago he was on my counter, he grabbed his leg with his beak and started chewing it, he fell backwards into the empty sink, he didn’t open his wings and wouldn’t let go, I had to put him in a towel and have someone help me open his beak to get it off his leg.
He was breathing so heavy every time he inhaled and his chest expanded I could her noise, kind of like when my clavicle makes clicking sounds when I stretch.
A few days later he did the same thing, but not as bad, but he has been fine ever since.
The leg he chewed on was the leg with his Id tag, which he got when he was a baby.
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Post by cnyguy on Nov 28, 2020 20:49:38 GMT -5
It may be that the leg band bothered him. That's not uncommon and because of that, it's sometimes necessary to have a vet remove the band.
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Post by csissons on Nov 29, 2020 2:06:01 GMT -5
It may be that the leg band bothered him. That's not uncommon and because of that, it's sometimes necessary to have a vet remove the band. I did think that could have been it, I wasn’t sure since he had it for a few years already. It only happened those 2 times, 2 days in a row. He’s been fine ever since, but if it happens again then I shall get it removed. |
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Post by cnyguy on Nov 29, 2020 21:05:06 GMT -5
When I first got Ralph, he fussed with his leg band a lot and tried to pull it off over his toes. I was worried that he'd hurt himself, so it got removed at his first vet visit. Since Mo had his leg band for a while when he was chewing on his leg, it seems possible that there was something else wrong. He may have somehow hurt that leg, and once it stopped troubling him, he stopped chewing.
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Post by csissons on Dec 2, 2020 17:26:35 GMT -5
When I first got Ralph, he fussed with his leg band a lot and tried to pull it off over his toes. I was worried that he'd hurt himself, so it got removed at his first vet visit. Since Mo had his leg band for a while when he was chewing on his leg, it seems possible that there was something else wrong. He may have somehow hurt that leg, and once it stopped troubling him, he stopped chewing. If I recall correctly, he may have had dry skin on his legs, around the same time my cat had very dry/dandruff looking skin on her back, and my mother got the occasional nosebleed, which that could have been the furnace. We got it cleaned and put in a new filter around the same time and then they were all fine after that. Thank you for the advice. |
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