Dreamer123
08-12-2006, 10:17 PM
About three days ago, my budgie Buddy was extremely puffy. With past experience, I knew this wasn't a good sign. It wasn't molting puffy either. He was also sitting at the bottom perch of his cage, and just not acting normal.
I was petrified. I watched him every day, and he's still alive. I asked my mom this morning if we could take him to the vet, but when we called, they said they were closing, and told us to go to this emergency place an hour away. We thought it was a bad idea because a long trip like that would probably upset him.
Today, however, he looks like a normal budgie! Chirping, and no longer puffy! Just to be safe, my mom and I found an antibiotic for common budgie illnesses. The symptoms to use it were ruffled feathers, and sitting on low perches: exactly what Buddy had. So we put half a tablet into his drinking water.
I think it was a respiratory infection. The cleaning ladies sprayed stuff in the room his cage was in. After I noticed that, I moved his cage to my room where they didn't spray anything. Now that I think about it, he did show the signs of puffyness the day after they came...
Do you think maybe I got him out of the room in time for the fumes not to have infected him much? Or do you think it wasn't the fumes, and maybe something else?
Please, me and Buddy need your help.
I was petrified. I watched him every day, and he's still alive. I asked my mom this morning if we could take him to the vet, but when we called, they said they were closing, and told us to go to this emergency place an hour away. We thought it was a bad idea because a long trip like that would probably upset him.
Today, however, he looks like a normal budgie! Chirping, and no longer puffy! Just to be safe, my mom and I found an antibiotic for common budgie illnesses. The symptoms to use it were ruffled feathers, and sitting on low perches: exactly what Buddy had. So we put half a tablet into his drinking water.
I think it was a respiratory infection. The cleaning ladies sprayed stuff in the room his cage was in. After I noticed that, I moved his cage to my room where they didn't spray anything. Now that I think about it, he did show the signs of puffyness the day after they came...
Do you think maybe I got him out of the room in time for the fumes not to have infected him much? Or do you think it wasn't the fumes, and maybe something else?
Please, me and Buddy need your help.