It's a zoo in here!

We have a dog, a cat, a parrot, and a canary. All in a two bedroom apartment. Well, this morning we awoke to animal trauma. The parrot sleeps outside in his cage. He likes the outdoors, plus there are some wild parrots around that he likes to talk to during the day. We are on the second floor and have never had any problems with this arrangement in 8 months. Well, as soon as I woke up this morning, I stumbled onto the porch to say hi to the plants and the bird. I saw tail feathers all over the porch and ran over to look. He had been attacked. His tail was plucked - nothing left and it looked like he had a gash on his side. It was obvious that he was tired and got no rest. Something must have climbed up a tree about 10 feet away and jumped onto the porch to get him! Poor bird. We rushed him to the doctor. His butt looks fine. The rest of the trauma was to his wing feathers, but the blood was mostly coming from a few blood feathers. The doctor plucked those out and checked him all over. I have to give him 2 shots a day for 5 days to make sure nothing gets infected. 90 bucks later and the bird is ok and all of us are tired. It was well worth it for a happy family. No more outside play/sleep without our supervision.

With all of these animals we really don't have many things like this come up. We have been lucky. Poor birdie was very lucky that he is still alive.

Over and out from the zoo.