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The stages of smoosh 💚

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Life is hard and weird and scary and stressful and lonely these days. This nugget helps, though 💚💛❤️

Show me who is helping you survive!

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All your birds are incredible!!!

Wow, thank you!! I have to agree lol. They are the loves of my life and I’d be totally lost without them 💚💚

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She may look sweet, but OH MAN THE HORMONES

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Post-bath love 💚

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sweetiesugarbird

Everything is bad and terrible but at least there are birbs

indeed

You know it

Absolutely

Definitely

Oh yes

Ain’t that the truth

Just me playing around with a drawing app I downloaded.

thebeakincarnate

Our Lady of Supreme Mischief

ingayderzim

There’s a difference between “if you can’t afford the vet don’t get pets” (which is true unfortunately) and like, someone starting a gofundme/donation post bc their pet has some sort of crazy unforeseen illness that was impossible to predict…dont be mean to ppl ebegging for their pets bc they budgeted $250 for shots and worm medicine and don’t have $2,000 laying around for feline MRI scans

glumshoe

People also tend to get nasty with “you should have gotten pet insurance you irresponsible idiot” but pet insurance refuses coverage for all kinds of things that an owner could not reasonably anticipate.

kedreeva

I say this as someone who very, very firmly believes in the adage “if you can’t afford the vet, you can’t afford the pet”: this quote is speaking about standard vet care. This quote refers to the average expected standard of care for an individual animal.

It means if you take in a healthy, young animal, you should be able to cover its yearly physical exam, its vaccinations/standard preventative treatment meds (like for example, flea/tick meds, heartworm, etc), and its spay/neuter as applicable. It means that you should have set aside anywhere from $100-300 (or pay for pet insurance) to cover if your animal gets the animal equivalent of a cold or a minor injury.

It means that if you take in an animal that needs advanced care, for example a diabetic animal, that you are prepared to pay for the standard care that particular animal will need. These costs are higher and, going into the deal, you should be aware of them and prepared to handle them.

The phrase has been passed around in short form and used to ridicule people to whom it does not apply. It should read: “If you cannot afford the standard, expected, and reasonable vet costs for your particular animal, then you can’t afford that animal.”

Because it does not mean that someone should not get a pet because something catastrophic might happen somewhere along the line that they won’t immediately have the funds to cover. As someone who has been there and done that and had to cover an unexpected, several-thousand-dollar emergency bill, I can say it’s absolutely unreasonable to demand that every person who owns an animal set aside that kind of money for something that might never actually happen.

Standard vet care you can expect- it’s standard. You know it’s coming, you can plan for it, and the money set aside for it you know is going to be used. It’s reasonable to expect that people be ready and able to cover those costs before acquiring a pet because they can know in advance what those costs are going to be and have the opportunity to assess whether or not they can do it.

pastelparrotlet

Birds are truly the epitome of self care. Do you see how much time they spend grooming themselves? How many times a day they go get snacks? How often they scream at nothing just to let out an emotion we cannot understand? Inspiring.

everythingfox

Watch for a surprise

myfeatheredflock

Incredible

squeezingparrots

Hold birb gentle like... no wait, WHAT ARE YOU DOING???¿¿

My main man

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I lost my sweet Gracie last night. She’d started laying eggs again and on Thursday night, she became egg bound. I brought her to my vet as soon as they opened yesterday morning and they gave her fluids and incubated her for a while. They gave her some oxytocin and she was able to finally push the egg out! Unfortunately, she kept pushing. And pushing and pushing until she prolapsed. The vet got everything back inside only for her to push it out again. The vet tried one more time to put it back in, but Gracie pushed it right back out. So they took her to surgery to put 2 stitches in her cloaca to hold everything in. Gracie’s stubborn though, she STILL managed to push a bit out. So she went back into surgery for a third stitch. Things were looking good after that and I was allowed to take her home, knowing that if she was having trouble pooping or developed another egg, I would have to remove the stitches. She was getting antibiotics and antiinflammatories. When we got home, she was tired but she was eating and pooping!! When I gave her her meds, she bit the crap out of me. Her sass was back! She was looking good and I was really hopeful that she was going to pull through. I had an alarm set to check on her in the middle of the night and that’s when I found her. I guess it was all just too much for her tiny body.

I love you, Gracie girl. I’m sorry for the life you had before we found each other and I hope your life with me and Max was a good one. Fly high and I’ll see you again at the rainbow bridge, naked girl. Say hi to everyone for me 💚

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pastelparrotlet

Don’t buy an unweaned parrot!

For some reason a lot of new members to a parrot chatroom I’m on seem to have recently purchased unweaned baby parrots.

UNWEANED BABY BIRDS ARE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO RAISE AND YOU SHOULD NOT BUY ONE!

Baby parrots need round-the-clock feedings, with expensive formula heated to an extremely precise temperature (otherwise it could burn them or cause infection), and weaning is a difficult process that can take months.

Parrots are highly intelligent and hand-feeding them is much like caring for a human baby, there are many factors just waiting to go wrong. Any reputable breeder who cared about the homes their birds are going to will not ship or sell you an unweaned baby, so take any breeder selling them as a red flag.

Buy an adult whose eating well on its own, or better yet adopt an older bird who needs a home!

Tumblr just recommended your blog to me and I couldn't be happier. I have a Pineapple conure as well named Popsicle 💚 he's the bird in my profile pic

Thank you! And Popsicle is so cute!! 💚

Ready to sign those historical documents!

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