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relationships and jobs are temporary. your shitty unpopular tumblr blog is forever

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french people when you try to speak their language and get the pronunciation slightly wrong

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Blessed Hat

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Time To Suffer™

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Always remember to brush your teeth. Otherwise Hurley can't do the tooth brush dance.

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Sad update: Ragnar passed away yesterday morning.

We were able to reach our own avian vet yesterday and after talking the events/happenings through she think he might have had a stroke.

Probably due to all the stress of traveling and the visit to the avian vet, maybe also because of the extra stress of trying to clean out his nostril and being held longer (he was terrified of hands). We really don't know. She thinks he wasn't in pain during all the events so that's something to hold on to I guess.

I miss him terribly and I still can't wrap my head around that he's not coming back.

Fly free, Ragnar. I love you my sweet baby bird.

Completely knackered out due to all events today.

Our old man budgie, Ragnar, (10 years old) had to be admitted to emergency vet care this evening.

After a check up this afternoon at his usual avian vet where she (the avian vet):

- did a physical examination (everything was alright, Ragnar had morbid obesitas and was on a strict diet for 1,5-2 months, and he had lost enough weight to be considered healthy again),

- tried to clean out his nostril (his nostril was hidden once again, but it started bleeding, so she stopped directly with trying to open it up),

- examined his excrements (he has a bacterial infection in his body that doesn't react to antibiotics anymore so he's on a 'maintenance dosage' of F10 in his drinking water to keep the bacterial infection at bay) but except for the known bacterial infection nothing eventful is going on.

Everything looked alright so far.

Due to the bacterial infection and his personality, he's really afraid of hands, startled easily and then starts breathing very heavily, almost hyperventilating-like, he was breathing heavily after putting him back in his 'travel bag/cage'.

Everything seemed to be alright.

On our journey back home Ragnar started walking backwards, turning around in circles, screaming, flap hard with his wings, in his travel bag.

I tried contacting our avian vet multiple times but couldn't reach her. The only thing we could do was continuing traveling back home in the hope when we'd arrive home he'd be a bit better.

Back at home when I tried to put him back on his perch, he immediately fell down and continued the twisting and spinning in circles. Due to lack of better words the only way I can describe it is like he looked like he was having spasms/maybe a seizure but he didn't came out of it.

We tried contacting our avian vet a few more times to no avail and decided to contact the emergency vet. Who said to drop by directly so we did. The whole journey we were afraid Ragnar wasn't going to make it, but he did.

While Ragnar was in the care of the emergency vet we decided to wait for an hour to see if the treatments would help. They put him in an oxygen cage, gave him glucose and an anti-seizure medication which didn't helped a lot, we found out after an hour. But he still was reacting to his environment, to hands (anger!) and to us. He's still there mentally. All the time while still spasming/seizuring.

We made the decision to not give up on Ragnar because the emergency vet isn't an avian vet (we thought they were) and tomorrow morning (a few hours from now) an avian vet will examine him.

The emergency vet has been in contact with the avian vet and Ragnar's symptoms are the same as the symptoms of a heavy metal poisoning. So we decided to start treatment for heavy metal poisoning, as they said if it isn't that - it won't harm him.

Tomorrow morning we will hear more from the avian vet and we will be in contact with our own avian vet. Leaving Ragnar there is heartbreaking but we really hope he will pull through.

Normally I don't post about my pets here but I hope someone might read this and maybe know what to do in this situation.

I hope it's okay to tag a few bird blogs people here in the hope someone has an idea what we can do for Ragnar. I really don't want to give up on him.

@flock-talk @parrot-parent @birdhism

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Completely knackered out due to all events today.

Our old man budgie, Ragnar, (10 years old) had to be admitted to emergency vet care this evening.

After a check up this afternoon at his usual avian vet where she (the avian vet):

- did a physical examination (everything was alright, Ragnar had morbid obesitas and was on a strict diet for 1,5-2 months, and he had lost enough weight to be considered healthy again),

- tried to clean out his nostril (his nostril was hidden once again, but it started bleeding, so she stopped directly with trying to open it up),

- examined his excrements (he has a bacterial infection in his body that doesn't react to antibiotics anymore so he's on a 'maintenance dosage' of F10 in his drinking water to keep the bacterial infection at bay) but except for the known bacterial infection nothing eventful is going on.

Everything looked alright so far.

Due to the bacterial infection and his personality, he's really afraid of hands, startled easily and then starts breathing very heavily, almost hyperventilating-like, he was breathing heavily after putting him back in his 'travel bag/cage'.

Everything seemed to be alright.

On our journey back home Ragnar started walking backwards, turning around in circles, screaming, flap hard with his wings, in his travel bag.

I tried contacting our avian vet multiple times but couldn't reach her. The only thing we could do was continuing traveling back home in the hope when we'd arrive home he'd be a bit better.

Back at home when I tried to put him back on his perch, he immediately fell down and continued the twisting and spinning in circles. Due to lack of better words the only way I can describe it is like he looked like he was having spasms/maybe a seizure but he didn't came out of it.

We tried contacting our avian vet a few more times to no avail and decided to contact the emergency vet. Who said to drop by directly so we did. The whole journey we were afraid Ragnar wasn't going to make it, but he did.

While Ragnar was in the care of the emergency vet we decided to wait for an hour to see if the treatments would help. They put him in an oxygen cage, gave him glucose and an anti-seizure medication which didn't helped a lot, we found out after an hour. But he still was reacting to his environment, to hands (anger!) and to us. He's still there mentally. All the time while still spasming/seizuring.

We made the decision to not give up on Ragnar because the emergency vet isn't an avian vet (we thought they were) and tomorrow morning (a few hours from now) an avian vet will examine him.

The emergency vet has been in contact with the avian vet and Ragnar's symptoms are the same as the symptoms of a heavy metal poisoning. So we decided to start treatment for heavy metal poisoning, as they said if it isn't that - it won't harm him.

Tomorrow morning we will hear more from the avian vet and we will be in contact with our own avian vet. Leaving Ragnar there is heartbreaking but we really hope he will pull through.

Normally I don't post about my pets here but I hope someone might read this and maybe know what to do in this situation.

I hope it's okay to tag a few bird blogs people here in the hope someone has an idea what we can do for Ragnar. I really don't want to give up on him.

@flock-talk @parrot-parent @birdhism

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What am I to do with the prompt 'adorable' from the birdtober 2024 challenge?

Every bird is adorable! Smh

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Birdtober 2024

I will be participating in Birdtober this year, using the Kayla Fisk Birds prompts!

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I like how much creativity this one affords me!