Wera
Regular Member
So we are not sure what’s going on… recently we spotted weird bald spot under Blu wing… it’s tiny but both of us were sure it wasn’t there before… yesterday I took her to vet, vet just rang and confirmed whole blood panel came back perfect, but pointed out she was very stressed yesterday, bit more than usual ( they know her well because I often take her for nail trims) and had general chat about other weird behaviour which started long time ago…she throws all food out of her food bowl… so I tried different food bowl, the one which came with cage is big and usually after she thrown all food she would sit in it, so I thought maybe she does it because she wants to nest in it… another bowl didn’t solve problem as she figured out how to throw whole bowl out… so I bought lockable bowl for her… but it was made out of plastic so she chewed it… I kept replacing it with new one but recently she took only one week to totally chew it… so went back to original cage bowl but two days ago she threw all food out (again) and was screaming so loud that my neighbour went to check on her ( bless the neighbour parrots are really not her thing) as she felt sorry for her she filled her bowl… and had to come back two more times… today I’ve put her food bowl to the lower slot and yes she didn’t throw much food but didn’t eat much neither and main exercise was pacing up and down cage and screaming…tiny bald patch looks like beginning of plucking although vet said might be she felt uncomfortable to who knows what reason and just pull few feathers and won’t continue … it’s been pointed out to us that seems she is bored/stressed and engages in compulsive behaviours to find comfort… vet will ring me tomorrow morning as he will have more time to talk ( they are having emergency situation at the moment and I want to talk to particular vet) but maybe anyone here has an idea what we could do…