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| Chris |
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"CarGirl" <red_tango@excite.com> wrote in message
news:62eb5862.0311242026.1520c356@posting.google.com...
> Hello all! I am new here and am seeking and answer to a question that
> is the result of a sad but miraculous thing that happened this Sunday.
> I have a speckled Mousebird named PipSqueak who is very tame and
> loves to be rubbed and played with. She lives alone in a cage I have
> kept in the same room for about 5 years. She is probably about 7 years
> old by now.
> I live in Southern California but the weather here is generally mild
> to hot, but it has gotten chilly at night recently.
> Sunday morning my boyfriend went into the spare room to see
> Pipsqueak and he found her on the bottom of the cage on her stomach.
> He called me in and I picked her up. I have had pet birds before, and
> to me this was the sad circumstance where birds oftentimes can
> disguise their illnesses until the last moment and you never even knew
> they were going to go. Her body was cold and lifeless...I turned her
> over and stroked her stomach and felt for breathing and a heartbeat,
> and I felt nothing. She was dead. Her eyes were closed and she was
> unresponsive.
> I set her down on a towel and prepared myself for the next step of
> where to bury her. Again, this was something that had happened before,
> for all I knew it was just her time to go.
> My boyfriend felt differently. He went back into the room and picked
> her up and started rubbing her. A moment later he called me in because
> one of her eyes had opened up. I picked her up and we took her outside
> into the sun and started rubbing her again, and I swear I cant beleive
> what happened in the palm of my hand..she started to move her legs and
> open her eyes. She was coming alive again. I got some lemonade in a
> small vial tried to get her to drink but she wasnt ready yet..More
> rubbing got her to try to stand up, wobbling and weaving in my hand.
> She lifted herself up and let out some loud chirps I had never heard
> her make before, as if trying to tell me she was feeling uncomfortable
> as she awoke from her coma-like state. She then drank some lemonade
> which really made me feel good because she was hungry and ready to
> continue to live.
> Within a few minutes she was up and around, devouring some banana and
> essentially back to her old self, singing and responding to me.
> This whole thing stunned me and emotionally moved both me and my
> boyfriend. I felt terribly guilty, too, because he had suggested that
> it had been very cold in that bedroom and maybe she had gotten too
> cold..a call to my bird boarding place also confirmed that idea, and
> naturally I felt terrible about it, that I may have caused this to
> happen to her.
> What stuns me the most is that she was for all I knew dead. I mean,
> she wasnt breathing, her heart wasnt beating..how did she come alive
> again? She was so cold and limp.
> I was just wondering if anyone out there know about how bird's bodies
> shut down and react to being cold. I know MouseBirds are tropical
> birds, but I never thought it would have gotten cold enough in my own
> house to cause her body to shut down like that. I had no idea that
> they could go into such a closed down state then be revived again.
> Yuck! I will never let that happen again. :(
>
> Thank you!
> Cynthia
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