MrsBeasley
07-12-2007, 09:06 PM
....Of two budgies being found outside two to three weeks apart and brought into the same animal hospital and left there. The first one arrived in a cage. What're the odds someone finds a budgie in their backyard and just so happens to have a cage to bring it in and leaves the cage.
Tonight someone pounded on our door shortly after we closed and said this budgie had landed on their head. After being informed of there being a fee to drop off the bird, asked a fellow employee to hold the bird and then took off.
Meanwhile, I'm at home finishing supper and get a call to see if I could "foster" this new bird. Even though I already have a houseful with three budgies (two babies and the previously "found" one), two adult cockatiels and one baby, a pair of lovebirds, two large dogs, one cat and a toddler (2 yrs) I agree to "foster" this new budgie. The budgie is dropped off to me. Upon picking up the poor thing, there is no way this poor thing could've landed on a rooftop let alone someone's head.
The bird is emaciated and weak, eys half closed, her feathers are all fluffed up. I have it now in the bathroom with the door closed, on a hotwater bottle with an electric heating pad under that, a towel over the cage and a humidifier blasting moist air into the cage.
Update: I just checked and the bird was savagely eating the seeds I sprinkled on the towel so I moved the bowls closer.
I just find it awfully fishy that two "stray" budgies are found so close together and brought to the same animal hospital.
Tonight someone pounded on our door shortly after we closed and said this budgie had landed on their head. After being informed of there being a fee to drop off the bird, asked a fellow employee to hold the bird and then took off.
Meanwhile, I'm at home finishing supper and get a call to see if I could "foster" this new bird. Even though I already have a houseful with three budgies (two babies and the previously "found" one), two adult cockatiels and one baby, a pair of lovebirds, two large dogs, one cat and a toddler (2 yrs) I agree to "foster" this new budgie. The budgie is dropped off to me. Upon picking up the poor thing, there is no way this poor thing could've landed on a rooftop let alone someone's head.
The bird is emaciated and weak, eys half closed, her feathers are all fluffed up. I have it now in the bathroom with the door closed, on a hotwater bottle with an electric heating pad under that, a towel over the cage and a humidifier blasting moist air into the cage.
Update: I just checked and the bird was savagely eating the seeds I sprinkled on the towel so I moved the bowls closer.
I just find it awfully fishy that two "stray" budgies are found so close together and brought to the same animal hospital.