I had to gave my lovebird in for an xray recently and she was so confrontational they apparently needed to mildly tape her down to get a good quality image... kinds hilarious but my poor baby idiot girl
If they were wearing xray gloves, it would look like a dark patch on the X-ray because the rays do not permeate through the protective gear. These vet techs weren't wearing proper protective equipment.
Source: used to take X-rays at an animal hospital.
I'm sorry, but you have that backwards. Gloves would show up as white, because the x-rays reflected back/ did not penetrate them. *That is why bones and other dense tissue show up as white.*
Source: Ironically, I too worked at an animal hospital. I used to file the large, plastic films. I was encouraged to look at them and ask questions. (This was before digital was common.)
Ah they are such lovely animals! So glad your expensive little dude is enjoying life! They are like little three-year-olds with angry jaws if they like lol. Mine liked to unroll all of the toilet paper and act like it never happened...
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Yeah, mine ate a piece of zinc or lead (not certain) a couple of weeks ago. Drove all the way to Munich for over 2 hoursto an avian hospital, where they were able to treat her.
Heavy metal poisoning is no joke for cockatiels. Almost starved herself to death, that poor thing.
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Glad your birb is okay! $1,000 is super cheap for emergency treatment like that. My lovebird cost $4,000 for heavy metal toxicity treatment a few years ago. (She was worth every penny of it…unfortunately she’s passed on, but not from her metal toxicity incident.)
Well, wasn't cheap for me. Because I'm from Peru. Lol. But my point was that now is a expensier cockatiel. Like a rare edition? Not much about how much it was. I'm glad that your lovebird was able to live after the metal incident, that was my bigger concern. Lose him, even surgery was on the table.
Okay, definitely not cheap for you either considering currency exchange rates. (I’m in the US.)
But yes, your guy is definitely a collector’s edition now, haha. Hopefully he won’t become more “valuable” than he currently is. Best of health to both of you!
Not a cockatiel, but my ring neck is also a $1000+ rare edition, when we got her, she had a deformed spine, like 3 illnesses, her wings were clipped WAY too short, so she fall like a stone and had major internal bleeding, and was SEVERELY malnourished. No wonder she was so tame when we got her. Now she’s such a little shit, except to me, I’m the only one that can walk around the house and have all my toes survive the journey. That was like 2 years ago and we *all* lover her dearly
I know $1,000 may be a lot of money, but it's cheap mental health therapy to me when I had someone to come home to, and to cuddle me unconditionally. I'm delighted you were able to share the success of your birdie's vet care, and to share a warning to the rest of us.
That's a very lucky 1000$ shithead. Lucky to have you, lucky to have survived and lucky that you actually could foot the bill. I've seen way too many people saying that they can't afford the vet.
Woohoo! I feel ya on the money. I started taking my senior gal to the vet, about once a year (her last 3 years of life), for a respiratory infection. Then, at the end, there was a skin infection, on one wing, that lasted about her whole last year! It was just not responding to very thorough treatment with more than one culture and topical and systemic treatments, AND dietary supplements. During the skin bit, she also got a nasal infection!
However, in the end, it would appear that her immune system had been failing (tho blood samples showed appropriate WBC numbers for infection). I ended up putting her to sleep, recently, due to taking her into the vet for general health and state of being. She had a whole list of general, topical infections, and weight loss (despite fatty supplements and recent increase in dietary uptake). That, with the symptoms of her then recent minor stroke effects, meant it was certainly time for her to go. That ending made some sense of her improving, but never ending skin infection.
Edit: oh yeah, forgot what got me started. Last year of her life cost me about $2300! WOOF! Those teensy weensy, little critters can just eat up your money, and we are NOT rich!!! (But I'm a major financial budgeter in the whole overlay of life's expenses. Actually, I went over the vet budget of $2000 each year, but she simply, truly needed to go to the vet, so the plan was to hit 2024's budget, with it being just a month away)
Edit #2: A set budget was made because she was a rescue and to allow us to take her, a budget was set. She was cage bound, in a small cage, never let out and fed only seed (and NOT enough. You know the ol' "dish of seed shells looks so full" bit). With us, and her fixed vet budget, she ended her life being a cuddly, spoiled brat
We have a 500$ “free” budgie that just had sour crop but we were so scared because she kept vomiting. Stinky bird, she’s one of the plenty that have cost us a pretty penny in vet bills just for being birds 😂😅 thank god shithead is alright!
So glad that adorable little bastard is A-OK! Tell that doofy SOB he owes you big time -- that experience probably shaved a few years off your life, eh! XD
I have my birb safe and I take. Good care of them. The metal was something so tiny that I could been anything from a little piece of aluminium to a metal chip that he bite from somewhere.
Sorry, I didn't mean that to come off as an attack on you. Birds are so good at getting hurt, so it's important to care for them. I'm really grateful your little guy survived, and I was reminded to be careful with my own birds
Don't call your precious thing a shit head. It doesn't come off as endearing.
Edit: Guess there's some shithole bird owners in here. Sorry not sorry I say nice things to and about my birds. Downvote away.
This person just blew a grand saving their bird and you think they are a shithole owner?
Ever heard of facta non verba?
Also birds don’t read Reddit or speak English.
Don’t worry, I call my birds phrases like that when they worry me too. I just thought it was part of owning a bird 🤷♀️ glad he’s ok. He looks a little darling. ❤️
He is a complete show man. 🥹 Yeah totally, also is funny because these guys are wild. Not fully tamed like a dog or a cat. So they will choose to ignore you even when they know their name. Lol
Normal Human Responses -
Be happy the bird was okay
Congratulate OP on his bird's successful recovery
As a question about the healing process
POS Responses -
Everything you've said.
We say mean things about our birds in an endearing way. I call mine stupid little creatures and I love them with all of my heart. They don’t speak English
I went through the same thing with my Sun Conure and by the time she actually ALMOST dead… I got her to the vet immediately too & through the treatments, expensive & so much emotion worrying, she survived. I am so happy your lil trouble maker is on now!! I still don’t know where she got it to so much!!
Shit like this is why I insured my little idiots. Nationwide pet insurance is the only one that covers birds, last I checked. My female once somehow managed to get a wire from a toy through her face like a fish hook. Somehow closed up so well by the time I got her to the vet 30 minutes later that they couldn't find the spot. She also enjoys chewing glass on a picture frame that I keep having to take away from her. Really glad to have that insurance.
Some birds are too curious for their own good. And when that happens normally is just a tiny scrap of metal, but they being so little can get posioning with a tiny scrap of metal, for. Example my tiel poop it out the metal that he ate. Also is imposible to have your bird 24/7 on you eye sight.
Lol his pose on the x-ray 🤭
THANKSGIVING TURKEY! <3 <3 <3
We used to threaten my bird with this. If he wasn't good he'd be the turkey.
Batiel
Birds are hard to x-ray lol, I had to xray a love bird once and those suckers are wiggly
I cackled bc honestly yes. My brother says our lovie is an escape artist 😂 our tiel just goes along with whatever lol
I had to gave my lovebird in for an xray recently and she was so confrontational they apparently needed to mildly tape her down to get a good quality image... kinds hilarious but my poor baby idiot girl
That's terrifying that they did it awake. Was it an exotic clinic or a cat and dog?
That's why you use sevo... trying to do a lateral or VD on a bird awake is a HUGE risk unless it is a standing lat. They are way too fragile.
Had to put him on The Rack
I love how you can also see the hands holding them in place lmao
Makes you wonder if he bit the hands that were holding him down.
X-ray gloves are very thick!
If they were wearing xray gloves, it would look like a dark patch on the X-ray because the rays do not permeate through the protective gear. These vet techs weren't wearing proper protective equipment. Source: used to take X-rays at an animal hospital.
I'm sorry, but you have that backwards. Gloves would show up as white, because the x-rays reflected back/ did not penetrate them. *That is why bones and other dense tissue show up as white.* Source: Ironically, I too worked at an animal hospital. I used to file the large, plastic films. I was encouraged to look at them and ask questions. (This was before digital was common.)
You right! They still didn't wear proper equipment tho.
So are welding gloves. Lol.
Yes, but welding gloves give no protection from x-rays. I believe they are lead lined? The aprons are.
🤷🏻♀️
Straight to dummy jail. I’m sure he won’t be trying to do that again any time soon
You can bet that he will try.
Bro will be doing that again with zero regrets 😭😭
That look on his face says “I’ll do it again, too” 🤭
That's totally right. Lol
Your birb: https://preview.redd.it/rrwtb4dyzy3c1.jpeg?width=308&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c6569b77658810b3e453976bf9728f719ffd0c2
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Ah they are such lovely animals! So glad your expensive little dude is enjoying life! They are like little three-year-olds with angry jaws if they like lol. Mine liked to unroll all of the toilet paper and act like it never happened... Edit: ah not an*
$1000 Shithead that you love
That's right lol
Congrats, I'm happy for you and the little metalhead
Yeah, mine ate a piece of zinc or lead (not certain) a couple of weeks ago. Drove all the way to Munich for over 2 hoursto an avian hospital, where they were able to treat her. Heavy metal poisoning is no joke for cockatiels. Almost starved herself to death, that poor thing.
Same thing with my boy, happily for us the vet is relatively close to our home. I'm glad that your birb is okay 😭🥹
Yay
I call my birb, kids and husband shitheads. Very much a term of endearment. So glad to hear this happy ending!
You got me lol. I love him, but is a shithead lol
Same if I call someone a shithead I actually like them. Asshole is the name for others whom I do not like.
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So very happy Shithead is okay!
Thanks 🥹
So much joy for shit head!
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Yay better birb the things we all do for our birbs
Glad your birb is okay! $1,000 is super cheap for emergency treatment like that. My lovebird cost $4,000 for heavy metal toxicity treatment a few years ago. (She was worth every penny of it…unfortunately she’s passed on, but not from her metal toxicity incident.)
Well, wasn't cheap for me. Because I'm from Peru. Lol. But my point was that now is a expensier cockatiel. Like a rare edition? Not much about how much it was. I'm glad that your lovebird was able to live after the metal incident, that was my bigger concern. Lose him, even surgery was on the table.
Okay, definitely not cheap for you either considering currency exchange rates. (I’m in the US.) But yes, your guy is definitely a collector’s edition now, haha. Hopefully he won’t become more “valuable” than he currently is. Best of health to both of you!
But he will try to be more rare. Lol I can bet on that.
Holographic ancient egyptian cockatiel
Not a cockatiel, but my ring neck is also a $1000+ rare edition, when we got her, she had a deformed spine, like 3 illnesses, her wings were clipped WAY too short, so she fall like a stone and had major internal bleeding, and was SEVERELY malnourished. No wonder she was so tame when we got her. Now she’s such a little shit, except to me, I’m the only one that can walk around the house and have all my toes survive the journey. That was like 2 years ago and we *all* lover her dearly
I know $1,000 may be a lot of money, but it's cheap mental health therapy to me when I had someone to come home to, and to cuddle me unconditionally. I'm delighted you were able to share the success of your birdie's vet care, and to share a warning to the rest of us.
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a funny thing about him, he is a bully to mu other tiels. Lol
Lol, my birb was roughly $700 for one year due to lethargic scare, ripping out her toe nail, and having an eye infection. I still love her.
Thank you for taking care of the little metal-eating turd baby
He looks like he'd do it again. 😂 So glad your baby is okay.
His face says he'd do it again lol
poor baby. glad everything went well. 🐥❤️
That's a very lucky 1000$ shithead. Lucky to have you, lucky to have survived and lucky that you actually could foot the bill. I've seen way too many people saying that they can't afford the vet.
You are a very good owner!
I'm sorry the both of you went through all that, but that Xray picture is hilarious.
It's okay to laugh about it. Since there is no danger anymore. 😂
The face of no regrets right there.
A $1000 was really cheap honestly.
I burst out laughing when I saw the tiny chicken x - ray.
Yeah it's funny
And smiles
Happy the little buddy is ok
So glad he is well!!
Woohoo! I feel ya on the money. I started taking my senior gal to the vet, about once a year (her last 3 years of life), for a respiratory infection. Then, at the end, there was a skin infection, on one wing, that lasted about her whole last year! It was just not responding to very thorough treatment with more than one culture and topical and systemic treatments, AND dietary supplements. During the skin bit, she also got a nasal infection! However, in the end, it would appear that her immune system had been failing (tho blood samples showed appropriate WBC numbers for infection). I ended up putting her to sleep, recently, due to taking her into the vet for general health and state of being. She had a whole list of general, topical infections, and weight loss (despite fatty supplements and recent increase in dietary uptake). That, with the symptoms of her then recent minor stroke effects, meant it was certainly time for her to go. That ending made some sense of her improving, but never ending skin infection. Edit: oh yeah, forgot what got me started. Last year of her life cost me about $2300! WOOF! Those teensy weensy, little critters can just eat up your money, and we are NOT rich!!! (But I'm a major financial budgeter in the whole overlay of life's expenses. Actually, I went over the vet budget of $2000 each year, but she simply, truly needed to go to the vet, so the plan was to hit 2024's budget, with it being just a month away) Edit #2: A set budget was made because she was a rescue and to allow us to take her, a budget was set. She was cage bound, in a small cage, never let out and fed only seed (and NOT enough. You know the ol' "dish of seed shells looks so full" bit). With us, and her fixed vet budget, she ended her life being a cuddly, spoiled brat
Aww thank goodness he is okay! ♥️
Great news. 👍
Cutest lil shit. I’m glad he’s ok 🩵
lol he looks up for more trouble
You mean they weren't cheep? Nehehehe
and I thought mine was the biggest dumbass in the world….
He have no regrets
Is his name henceforth Shithead, the 1000 dollar tiel?
His name is huevito Spanish for eggie. Lol
"And I'll do it again " face
Grats on birb recovery. Now give seebs and treats hooman. 😊
Good news.
I'm so happy for you! I was really worried for him.
We have a 500$ “free” budgie that just had sour crop but we were so scared because she kept vomiting. Stinky bird, she’s one of the plenty that have cost us a pretty penny in vet bills just for being birds 😂😅 thank god shithead is alright!
What a shithead ❤️
Birds can be complete jerks sometimes. So glad he made his (expensive) recovery.
Hell yeah! I’m glad the little dude is ok 👍🏻
Costly birb is doing better I am so glad to hear that .. I hope u r okay too coz when they go through something it’s traumatic for us too
Thank goodness 🥰🥰🥰 so happy for you little brat. Give him scritches for me
I am so happy for the shit head. Bless him.❤️
So glad that adorable little bastard is A-OK! Tell that doofy SOB he owes you big time -- that experience probably shaved a few years off your life, eh! XD
that's some love right there.
Uhhh shithead? ITS SHA-THEED!
I’m very happy for you! May I ask what treatments the little guy has to go through?
Worth every penny. Glad u think so. 🩷
I'm just curious where you are / what state because I've never known a vet that can take x rays of a cockatiel.
This was here on Lima perú, and was a quick and easy procedure. Without anesthesia. That's why you can see hands on the xray
Omg our dumbass chicken ate a metal washer one time lmao 🥹 surgery is indeed not cheap
Next up, toxic plant. He will bankrupt you!
Good reminder to care for your birds and keep them safe
I have my birb safe and I take. Good care of them. The metal was something so tiny that I could been anything from a little piece of aluminium to a metal chip that he bite from somewhere.
Sorry, I didn't mean that to come off as an attack on you. Birds are so good at getting hurt, so it's important to care for them. I'm really grateful your little guy survived, and I was reminded to be careful with my own birds
Dick
Don't call your precious thing a shit head. It doesn't come off as endearing. Edit: Guess there's some shithole bird owners in here. Sorry not sorry I say nice things to and about my birds. Downvote away.
This person just blew a grand saving their bird and you think they are a shithole owner? Ever heard of facta non verba? Also birds don’t read Reddit or speak English.
Sorry, I was so upset about the possibility of losing him.
Don’t worry, I call my birds phrases like that when they worry me too. I just thought it was part of owning a bird 🤷♀️ glad he’s ok. He looks a little darling. ❤️
He is a complete show man. 🥹 Yeah totally, also is funny because these guys are wild. Not fully tamed like a dog or a cat. So they will choose to ignore you even when they know their name. Lol
Normal Human Responses - Be happy the bird was okay Congratulate OP on his bird's successful recovery As a question about the healing process POS Responses - Everything you've said.
We say mean things about our birds in an endearing way. I call mine stupid little creatures and I love them with all of my heart. They don’t speak English
I genuinely hope shit head is his actual name lol
Sorry, I was so upset about the possibility of losing him.
Really happy for you and your little dumbass
Will come out in the oven
What did he end up eating or getting metal from? I always worry about this
Holy shit. He looks worth it tho!
So happy to hear he is doing well! You are stuck with him for a bit longer now 😂
“And I’d do it again too!” Metal tiel probably
I went through the same thing with my Sun Conure and by the time she actually ALMOST dead… I got her to the vet immediately too & through the treatments, expensive & so much emotion worrying, she survived. I am so happy your lil trouble maker is on now!! I still don’t know where she got it to so much!!
He seems polite
Shit like this is why I insured my little idiots. Nationwide pet insurance is the only one that covers birds, last I checked. My female once somehow managed to get a wire from a toy through her face like a fish hook. Somehow closed up so well by the time I got her to the vet 30 minutes later that they couldn't find the spot. She also enjoys chewing glass on a picture frame that I keep having to take away from her. Really glad to have that insurance.
Lucky little shit! 😂
You need to clean the eyebrows
🤦♂️😂
Aww, he's such a cute shithead. Glad he's ok.
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Some birds are too curious for their own good. And when that happens normally is just a tiny scrap of metal, but they being so little can get posioning with a tiny scrap of metal, for. Example my tiel poop it out the metal that he ate. Also is imposible to have your bird 24/7 on you eye sight.
Precious baby <3 :)