by Wolf » Mon Aug 15, 2016 7:24 am
I really do not want to be the " bad guy" in this, but a dose f reality might help you more than just condolences, I hope so, as that is my intent.
Whenever we have a bird, such as yours that dies at far too young of an age, there is always the possibility that we may be at least partly at fault. Although in many cases the only thing that we may have done wrong was to not have noticed the bird being "off" soon enough and even if that is the situation, it could not always be due to our not having been observant enough as birds are known to hide any signs of illness until they can no longer do so. And this hiding of their illness has been the sole cause of many bird deaths that could have been prevented. That is not your fault.
To carry this just a bit further, it is more likely that this may have been a genetic issue and has nothing at all to do with the care you gave your bird. One of the things that may people don't know is that breeders generally do not breed their birds based on normal biological principles of strength, and health, things that are in the birds best interests, they breed them only for their color and more often then not do not keep their best birds for breeding stock. Breeders normally sell the best of their stock and this leaves only the weaker or " defective" birds for their breeding stock. This common practice has lead to many birds having been produced and sold to unsuspecting people who wanted a bird in their lives. People like you and me. Then as the bird grows the genetic abnormality shows itself through disease or organ failure and the bird often dies very shortly after the first symptoms, This is the most probable cause for the passing of your bird, and not anything that you have done or that you could have prevented. Without a necropsy, there is no way to know this for certain, but it is far more common than most people are aware of and accounts for a substantial amount of premature death in parrots.
I am so sorry for the passing of your friend and companion, and words can't begin to express how I feel or how you feel either. But I do not believe that you could have prevented this.
When this type of thing happens one of the very first things that we do is begin to question if we were the cause of the passing of our friend. Could we have prevented this if we had done something differently, we very often feel guilty for not having been able to prevent their passing, and this is very often made worse because we can't find anything that we could have done about it to change it. These guilt feeling are normal, but please don't latch on to them. Yes, look realistically at what we have done so that we can improve, but don't hold onto these guilt feeling they do you no good and prevent you from seeing the joys that you shared and the time that you had to share together.