Annendda/Feather Picking Desease?

[Roni Higgins]

I am desperate for help. I am the proud guardian of an incredible Moluccan Cockatoo that I pulled out of a local tire shop 9 yrs ago. At that time she was obsessive/compulsive self mutilator/feather picker; body covered in open sores and no feather to speak of. She had been a hand fed baby that the store owner took back and forth to work daily, allowing her free run of the shop(she also had a crippled leg which made her more endearing). Thinking he was doing her a favor he bought a wild caught male and put them both in a cage to small for even one, now out in the shop between stacks of tires. I found her sitting in a water bowl as there was only one perch and he wasn't sharing. I am proud to say that she is now beatifully feathered except for a two inch band across her tummy which contains 2 specific areas she will still rip open if given the chance.

So, she now lives comfortably with a collar and due to her crippled leg, sleeps on a memory pill;ow at night beside me. Last Thursday, my vet and I decided it was time to look deeper into her chest for a possible reason for her obsessive/comp behavior, removing the injured areas for biopsy. The removed pieces were probably over a 1/3 inch thick of granular tissue which has never completely healed in all the time I've had her.

Since Thursday, she has made no attempt to scratch herself through the collar or rub the collar against herself . Could this be the answer?

I was perusing "My Parrot, My Friend" and read about Annendda used in some of the case studies presented of mutilation/feather picking. Does any body know anything about this drug?????