cipro dose #2 and #3 given to Bentley today. of course he doesnt like to be towelled, nor do i think he likes the medicine, but he really is a good boy for allowing us to administer the meds to him without much fuss. im thinking he may know that the cipro is helping him.
today after coming home, bentley was climing all over his cage, being very active! it was a nice thing to see. bentley has been most active when my husband is in the room. bentley would make noises, sing, whistle and "dance" (bobs his head up and down in large movements) with my husband as he himself sings, whistles, and bobs his head up and down. its soooooooo cute to watch. we made movies of my husband and bentley singing and "talking" (so far its just amazon speech; we havent heard any human speech) tonight, tomorrow, i will try to catch bentley dancing.
it really warms my heart to see bentley acting very happy and active. with this much movement and exercise, i think we can work his excess weight off. we're hoping we can get him to eat pellets.
during dinner, we spied that he liked eating fresh edamame, corn and sugar snap peas. my husband also found out that bentley would happily devour small pieces of raw carrots from his hand. this is w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l!!! with his vet visit showing that he has extreme vitamin deficiency, i think it will be a rather painless process to get him to eat some good fresh stuff.
tomorrow, i will feed some fruits along with fresh veggies and some birdie bread. i am also thinking of giving bentley a nice shower. with his former foster parent giving him daily baths, his feathers already have a nice sheen to them. i want to keep this up, although i dont think he needs to have daily baths anymore...maybe once or twice a week.
i have also seen that bentley has munched on his birdie kabob. its great to see him playing with toys. hopefully with some shredding toys, he will allow his chest and back feathers to regrow.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Coming to our home
Tonight, Bentley - a Blue Front Amazon of unknown age - was dropped off at my home. I will be fostering him until he gets adopted. Bentley is in pretty bad shape, but he is on a 10-day, twice a day regimen of Cipro (1st dose was administered tonight), he is in a much larger cage for him to explore and move around and with a better diet i hope he will lose some weight, lower his cholesterol, get the vitamins necessary for good health and regrow much of the feathers he has plucked out on his back and underbelly.
Bentley seems to have a hard time breathing sometimes. the vet says this is due to his vitamin deficiency and overweight body.
before putting him into his new cage, we had to towel him to give him his first dose of Cipro. that went ok. we then put him in his cage and his chest and head were heaving. poor guy. after settling down, he actually started roaming around and looking for his food. he went to his food bowl and promptly picked out a pine nut. he kept wandering over to his food bowl and then across the cage to the other side where so far his "favorite perch site" is. he did this about 3 times, each time he went to get a pine nut.
i also gave him an almond and a half a peanut. he took both of them very nicely from my fingers through the bars of his cage. he then wandered over to a seed "stick" (one of those long sticks with seeds molded all around it) and started biting on that. seeing that he was happily willing to walk all over his cage made me very hopeful that he will get the much needed exercise his body needs.
after a while of talking and singing to him and watching him maneuver around his cage, i left the room and my husband goes in and spends some time with him. in just a few minutes, i heard some singing and funny noises coming from inside our bedroom (his quarantine room). it was bentley having a "conversation" with my husband! how cute! bentley sang, whistled, trilled, squeeked and squawked as my husband talked and whistled to him. he continued this even after i entered the room. it was quiet a wonderful thing to see him get so comfortable so quickly. bentley even honored us with a contented tail-wag.
when zeba (our other foster - see his blog at http://zebasjournal.blogspot.com) heard bentley's voice, he would also start talking. it was a little bit of talking back and forth between the two, as well as with my own amazon.
its just the beginning of the honeymoon period, so things may change. so far i believe bentley likes my husband more than me by the way he seems more alive around my husband. i hope to convert him to a pelleted diet and away from the just seed diet he only accepts at the moment.
Bentley seems to have a hard time breathing sometimes. the vet says this is due to his vitamin deficiency and overweight body.
before putting him into his new cage, we had to towel him to give him his first dose of Cipro. that went ok. we then put him in his cage and his chest and head were heaving. poor guy. after settling down, he actually started roaming around and looking for his food. he went to his food bowl and promptly picked out a pine nut. he kept wandering over to his food bowl and then across the cage to the other side where so far his "favorite perch site" is. he did this about 3 times, each time he went to get a pine nut.
i also gave him an almond and a half a peanut. he took both of them very nicely from my fingers through the bars of his cage. he then wandered over to a seed "stick" (one of those long sticks with seeds molded all around it) and started biting on that. seeing that he was happily willing to walk all over his cage made me very hopeful that he will get the much needed exercise his body needs.
after a while of talking and singing to him and watching him maneuver around his cage, i left the room and my husband goes in and spends some time with him. in just a few minutes, i heard some singing and funny noises coming from inside our bedroom (his quarantine room). it was bentley having a "conversation" with my husband! how cute! bentley sang, whistled, trilled, squeeked and squawked as my husband talked and whistled to him. he continued this even after i entered the room. it was quiet a wonderful thing to see him get so comfortable so quickly. bentley even honored us with a contented tail-wag.
when zeba (our other foster - see his blog at http://zebasjournal.blogspot.com) heard bentley's voice, he would also start talking. it was a little bit of talking back and forth between the two, as well as with my own amazon.
its just the beginning of the honeymoon period, so things may change. so far i believe bentley likes my husband more than me by the way he seems more alive around my husband. i hope to convert him to a pelleted diet and away from the just seed diet he only accepts at the moment.
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