Hey, I thought I'd drop and give you news about Blue. I wanna take pictures of him later on, he's doing just so well.

 

His leg still worries me, but it's healing. That black toe is ...I dunno, peeling away. He fiddles after it sometimes but I'm not sure what I could do about it. There's a back toe that worries me too. It's not black, but there's a huge gash in there still. I wanna try to take a picture of that but it's not easy, he would never hold still to let me do that. It's as if the toe was half cut off, but it still lives.

 

I stopped giving him his meds yesterday, I think he seems to have had enough. I skipped a few doses in there... Personal, extremely bad things happened and I have just not been home. But the vet had said 5 days was enough if things were going well.

 

I clipped his wings this weekend, and that nearly automatically tamed him up. He won't throw himself around in panic anymore. He climbs on my finger when prompted (Sometimes he needs help to get on). Sometimes he jumps off and tries to flap to wherever else but I just have to grab him back. His wounded claw won't close, so to hold on a perch he just uses his good foot. To get more comfortable he edges towards your thumb so he can lay his wounded claw flat and have better balance.

 

He chirps at the others when he's lonely. Sometimes he'll chirp when I'm around but he's still scared so he usually shuts up.

 

We started introducing him to the others, but there's no way I'll EVER let them close to Blue until he's 100% healed. Bud showed up some bad temper, she might hurt him. Pat did too but it looked more like he was scared. Bud's another thing. She always shows agressivity to the others but it's not the same, he's wounded and he won't be able to defend himself (aka RUN AWAY) properly. As for Godzilla, he won't even get close to his cage. Probably why Pat feels uneasy, but Pat runs around in circles about Blue's cage. So we bring his cage to the living room, it makes him less bored and allows my mom to keep an eye on him directly. But we don't allow contact. When they're out of the cage he's in his, and when we want to take him out we lock up the others and let him enjoy the playgym. He won't play yet, he's scared, but he's very curious. It's okay, he can take his time.

 

I'll try to take pictures if I can find time tonight!

I am pleased to hear Blue is doing better. Poor boy.

He sounds like he is managing really well with his disability too - he will get more and more confident as time goes on and one day he won't even notice he is missing a toe.

 

The toe that is not closing up may need to be checked by the vet - if there is a blood supply it will not die and drop off. The vet might need to amputate the toe to stop future infection - especially now that he is off his antibiotics.

 

I am sorry to hear that some bad things happened - I hope you are okay.

I agree there with Liv about the toe, I am glad he is getting better.

Amputate it... Ow, that sounds costly (But then again it's so small, it must not be THAT costly!)... But that's what came to my mind too when I checked it out. I'll give the vet a call and speak with her. If he needs amputation I can probably afford it next week.

Being a toe, I would think it only needs some local antithetic, rather than a general antithetic so it shouldn't be to costly.

S'what I was talking about with my workmate. I mean, it's so small that you just have to numb up the leg then... I dunno, take a nail clipper!

S'what I was talking about with my workmate. I mean, it's so small that you just have to numb up the leg then... I dunno, take a nail clipper!

 

Don't be tempted to do it yourself as it will be cut though the correct part of the bone/joint and it needs to be done by a vet.

S'what I was talking about with my workmate. I mean, it's so small that you just have to numb up the leg then... I dunno, take a nail clipper!

 

Don't be tempted to do it yourself as it will be cut though the correct part of the bone/joint and it needs to be done by a vet.

 

I wouldn't do that... Come on.

hey you never know some people get some strange ideas!

S'what I was talking about with my workmate. I mean, it's so small that you just have to numb up the leg then... I dunno, take a nail clipper!

 

Don't be tempted to do it yourself as it will be cut though the correct part of the bone/joint and it needs to be done by a vet.

 

I wouldn't do that... Come on.

 

Phew. I didn't think you would but you did have me worried for a moment

As AV said, there are some out there who would!! :fear !!!

 

It would be good to see the photos you have - I am so pleased he is doing better!! You did a great thing saving him from your aunt

Poor boy - Let us know how it all goes -