Depression Recovery

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Hi all!  We have some sad news.  Three months after her one year anaversery with us, we don’t know her actual birthdate, we lost Snowball. She had three blood feathers two on her right wing and one on her left. There was still blood in them, we were afraid to clip them.  Snow flew into the other room with a celing fan and was hit by the fan breaking her right wing at the last two feathers the blood ones. Thre was no bleeding at home.  My hubby, Cory_J, took her to the vet.who confirmed the broken bone and stated that surgery was necessary to amputate the broken bone as there was no way to cast the bone.  Snow survived the surgery but went into shock after she recovered and caused the new would to bleed and died in her cage.  Ice was with her.  We bought another bird, Sky a very young female yellow and blue, they seem to be doing fine.  Ice has taught Sky to sleep on the swing.  My husband is in deep regrets for not shutting the door I regret not having said goodbye as I was late to work that day.  No more celing fans and oipen doors Please dont flame us as we are experiencing massive guilt and depression over the loss of Snowball.  This post is a warning to others that cilpped birds with one or two feathers can still gain altitude.  We miss Snowball.  The whole family is still geting used to not having her around and is experiencing those new bird training woes.  We all love Sky and welcom her with open arms.  Bobbi & Dean

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I am sorry to hear about the loss of your bird.  The same thing happened to me 5 years ago when I was bird-sitting my cousin’s budgie.  He was flying around when the ceiling fan (not the 4 blade type but the high rpm model for sucking air from the house into the attic in order to create a breeze) automatically turned on and sucked him in and pureed him.  It was my fault and I felt bad about it for a while.  There are all kinds of hidden dangers to pets you just don’t think of because they don’t seem so obvious and forseeable.    

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I’m very sorry to hear of your loss. Accidents happen, Murphy’s Law prevails. The only way you should get flamed would be if you couldn’t understand why the ceiling fan was dangerous, but your post showed that you did indeed know it was, and that your preventative measures failed. I wish you the best, and the same for your budgies. Don’t beat up on yourself, like I said, accidents happen, nobody is perfect. Lorene & Kayso (who is a pretty messy eater, but definitely eats…yay! That nestling food smells icky, but hey, so does pablum. )

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