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Post by sabaton28 on Jan 1, 2014 5:22:33 GMT
So had him out earlier in my room and my Maine coon breaks the door down and runs and jumps on my bed. This is were Im sitting with Afrit on my shoulder (reading) This scares Afrit and he trys to fly but ends up landing on my bed due to clipped wings. Boo finally see's Afrit and runs away  ( Seriously how can a big 18ib cat be terrified of a tiny bird oh well back to the story) When I picked Afrit up his feet were curled up for a few minutes then he did fluffed him self up did a weird hop and his feet were normal. Anyone else ever see this when a budgie is terrified? |
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Post by Pammy on Jan 1, 2014 5:32:15 GMT
Poor baby.  I'm so glad that didn't end worse! |
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Post by sabaton28 on Jan 1, 2014 6:05:59 GMT
Does it mean something Pammy?
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Post by Pammy on Jan 1, 2014 6:36:20 GMT
You know, I really don't know, other than being terrified something awful. Since he came out of it and acted normal afterwards, I'd say it wasn't a stroke or anything. I'm thinking he was literally paralyzed with fear, or his foot cramped when he was startled so badly, poor tiny darling. Maybe somebody else has had or read about a similar experience and will see this tomorrow. Goodnight, and happy New Year!
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Post by sarahjo on Jan 1, 2014 20:53:44 GMT
A couple years ago my Tweety broke a wing feather, he isn't hand trained the best, and back then he was hardly at all. (He has an interesting life story, that involves being neglected in a too tiny cage for over a year - the only interaction he had when I got him was negative/terrifying. I'll have to post about it sometime...)
Anyway, I had to hold him to pinch off the feather to stop the bleeding. It was terrifying to him to be in my hands, and he curled up his feet (it looked like he went into the equivalent of the fetal position for birds). After I was confident that the bleeding was stopped, I put him back in his cage (he wouldn't have perched on my finger so I didn't even try), and he sat on the floor for a couple minutes. I was worried, but knew that my being there was only scarring him, so I covered his cage and put on some soft music (which he was used to)... I don't know how long it took, but he was back on his perch that evening (3-4 hours later) and is still around today! :~)
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Post by sabaton28 on Jan 1, 2014 23:41:45 GMT
Sarah that is exactly the description of what happened except for the blood feather so I'll presume he was freaked out
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( Seriously how can a big 18ib cat be terrified of a tiny bird oh well back to the story) When I picked Afrit up his feet were curled up for a few minutes then he did fluffed him self up did a weird hop and his feet were normal. Anyone else ever see this when a budgie is terrified?
I'm so glad that didn't end worse! 
