Paula

I made the hour and half journey to Wendover Heights Veterinary Centre to see Steve Smith who is fantasic with exotics.

On taking her in she was excited and regurgitating to me while waiting in the waiting room bless her!! They took her through and she was given a anaesthetic so she could have her x-rays done, here are some photos of her having her x-ray.

When she was back round Steve called me through to have a chat about the x-rays she was a lot worse than we thought most of her long bones showed abnormalities the right and left humerus, left and right radius, keel, right coracoid and both tibiotarsi, The left leg was worse with entrapment of the extensor tendon and extreme extension of the intertarsal joint all of which he believes to have happened at about 2-6 weeks of life cause by poor diet!!

Here are the x-rays

As you can see it’s not a pretty site and to do a surgical repair it would require a significant operation breaking the bone in the bad leg implanting into a very small fragment and fixing the leg in a more normal position so it will be a big op if she has it.

I was told that there are always risk’s with things like this and it could happen that once Steve operates on her that the leg might just not take the pinning and shatter in which case she would be put to sleep, but it could go well, its a case of not knowing until he opens her leg up.

He also said that she could come home with some pain killers and see how she goes on them too and could live a life on them , I find it hard to see that she is in lots of pain as she is such a happy bird and so loving which makes it so much more harder what to do for the best!

I dearly would love to give her the chance of a fairly normal life and for her to be able to perch like any normal grey I think she deserves this, but then I have to look from the other angle and is it fair to put her through this?

If she has the Op we would need to raise funds to help Angel and pay for it as it will cost about £450 for the bad leg and maybe a bit less for the other leg so we would carry on Angels Appeal!

I need to sleep on it a few more times not that I can do much sleeping and I will update you all soon.

Paula + Angel xx

Last weekend i went and collected a new rehome called Tommy from Oxford. On seeing him i believe it to be a girl and have renamed her Angel you can read on why we called her that.

When i got there to collect Angel i was quite shocked as to what i found, she was in a right state, both legs had been broken at some point in her life and her wing also looked to have had a break and has set at a funny angle poor thing she is in a right state!!

She finds it really hard to get to a comfy spot as she can’t really perch and she seems to lay on her bowl to sleep, she often falls off the bowl and hits the bottom of her cage it’s so sad!

She will be booked in to see the vets so they can see if they can do anything to help her, i can’t believe a breeder would sell a bird like this she must have been through so much pain.

Here is Angel! (Sorry if the photos upset you, i’t still does me and i am use to her now)