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Foot paralysis
Can anyone shed any light on what has happened? I just lost my baby African Grey, Freddy, he was only four months old. One morning when we got up he sat in the bottom of his cage, one foot was curled up and he could not use it. We took him straight to a vet, who came highly recommended, she used to work in a bird park prior to joining a private practice and had tendered to thousand of birds and their problems. She had never seen this problem but thought he may have badly strained it so gave him anti inflamatory injection. Later that day his other foot went the same way, so on the advice of the vet we took him to see another vet at the hospital, for a second opinion. He had never seen this problem either and precribed vitamins to try and build him up a bit. We took him home and made him comfortable with a towel in the bottom of his cage. He had no feeling at all in either foot. He loved a cuddle so my husband and I cuddled him during the evening until it was bed time. The next morning Freddy was having trouble breathing and his feet were no better, so we took him back to the first vet. She suggested that we hospitalise him so she could give him oxygen and monitor him. When we left the vet we went to see the man we had bought him from to see if he had come across this problem in any other birds, he is a very reputable dealer here in Singapore. He had no idea what could have caused it but said he would go to the the vets to see Freddy and have a look for himself to see if he could help. After he had been to see Freddy he rang me and said he was puzzled and had never seen that problem before. About three hours after we left Freddy with the vet he had a seizure and died. I know it is to late for little Freddy but if anyone has any idea what this could have been I would appreciate knowing. We only had him for a few weeks but he stole our hearts and the grief at losing him is very painful. Although I did lots of research before I got him I wonder if it was something I did, or didn't do. Poisoning was ruled out because he was never out of his cage without supervision.
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