Quote Originally Posted by Snoopyslim View Post
Aww man there is nothing worse then hurting your own pet but accidents do happen so you can't beat yourself up. They are such small and agile creatures it's hard to keep track of them. Sounds like you two are great owners bringing them for trips and stuff...they probably love that. So sad about the fan incident, seems to have healed nicely though considering.

We had a very sad incident happen when I was about 12. We used to take our African Grey Parrot everywhere with us, Peanut, was part of the family, even ate dinner with us. Well one time while we were camping (which he had done on many occasions) he was annoyed that we were not paying attention to him since we were setting up the camp and he tried to fly out into the lagoon and do a little lap back to the campsite. There is an eagles nest on the other side of the lagoon and he must have been watching because as soon as Peanut took flight the eagle scooped him...it was awful we were all crying hysterically and to this day I can't mention Peanut to my father. What's worse is that's where we have camped our whole lives (including my father's parents) and know and love those eagles. Looking back I don't think my dad should have brought our parrot camping so it really was his fault and we should have had him in the cage but it was a very unusual circumstance and his wings were clipped so he could only really flutter. Still so awful and I hate to think that Peanut would have been with me my whole life, he was such a character.

Sorry for the sad story.
It really is the worst. Pip did heal up nicely, though. He lost one tooth and I thought for sure it was sliced right out and it was impossible for it to come back, but a couple weeks ago I noticed it poking through and it's slowly pushing everything back to normal. (His teeth were funky from the accident, the remaining top tooth was angled in a way to grind both the bottom teeth, so now both teeth are slowly resolving that.)


That would be so upsetting, I can only imagine! Looking back on things like that sucks, because you start to analyze what went wrong and how you could have avoided everything. With Choo Choo (the rat with the suspected neck injury) I keep thinking about how I was JUST about to remind my boyfriend about watching for the rat, and if we just hadn't of brought him lastnight he would be fine right now. *sigh* I hope it resolves on its own before I can get him to the vet, less stress on him and the boyfriends wallet. 😳