I wanted to post this right away, but lately I have been so busy with 2 tests and an assignment to do, that I didn't have any time to post this. Anyway, on Tuesdays I usually stay wait around at uni to play sport afterwards. But on that day I decided I would go home in between uni and sport to do some work on an assignment. I walked into my room and didn't notice anything unusual. Saffy was playing with the fuzzy rope, and the other budgies were having a ball. Then one of my flatmates asked how the budgies were and it wasn't till then that I took a proper look inside the cage. I was watching Saffy play with the fuzzy rope, when I thought her foot looked very dark. Saffy is usually a pinky toed thing. Then I saw it, bits of fluff from the rope had tangled around her foot and cut off the circulation!!! :oliveb: I supported her while someone ran to get some scissors. We cut her down and undid the twine around her foot. Her foot was deep purple!!!. I was so worried. Finally we got the bit of rope off. It was wrapped so tightly around her foot that it had cut into her skin. I thought she would lose her foot! :ausb:

Slowly her foot returned to its normal shade of pink. Poor baby it looked so sore. It was bleeding and bruised. My friend who is also a vet student, but higher up than me, said that the foot will probably be fine, but to just keep an eye on it. We put her into the little carry cage, so that she wouldn't be able to move much on it. Unfortunately, it hadn't been cleaned since Emmett's arrival, so she is now in quarantine with Emmett. Which is good as it is smaller cage and she won't be able to move so much on her foot.

Any way today it looks perfectly normal and she is using it properly and everything. My friend said that it is amazing how long blood can be cut off from something and the limb survives.

I'm just glad I came home when I decided to, otherwise she would have been caught up like that for over 5 hours!!!! and she probably would only have one foot right now, which for a runner budgie would suck.

Thats so lucky you found her! I'm sure her foot will be fine with you looking after her. Maybe you could massage it a little bit to encourage the circulation?

 

We raise possums for the RSPCA, and one time one of the little girl possums managed to get a bit of thread from her pouch wrapped all the way round her neck. You couldn't see the thread because of her fluff, so we didn't notice untill she started getting lethargic and ill looking... thankfully she recovered completely within a couple of minuets of removing the thread! pheww. Its a pretty nasty thing to happen!

How scary for you !! I hope you have dealt with the "fuzzy rope" ...

I had a rope like that and it hung one of my showbirds. A horrible thing. I am glad your Saffy is okay :oliveb:

WOW! I'm glad she is doing okay.

Yeah. Fuzzy rope got taken out immediately.

Oh poor little Saffy It's hard to believe how quickly they can get themselves into trouble - I am glad she is okay now!

Glad she is okay Sailor, how scary.

Oh, how awful. I am glad she is okay now.

 

 

Feathers.

oh, that is awful that poor little Saffy and you had to go through that. lucky you were home for her... there's probably a reason why you felt the need to go home that very day. I'm glad everything turn out okay for little Saffy.

:ausb: Poor Saffy, glad she made out okay, we always have our birds best interests in mind and a seemingly innocuous little string, chain or wire comes along.