I just wanted to put out a warning, I talked to our vet today and he thinks it is probable that my mother’s cancer treatment contributed to the death of he 40 year old grey. He passed away 3 weeks before she did. None of her doctors warned us about anything but I started to get suspicious of the chemical smell she gave off toward the end after hawk died.
I don’t know if we reasonably could have taken him from my dying mother if we knew the risk before hand. They were super bonded, he spent a lot of time comforting her while she was sick and she would have been very upset to rehome an animal but I thought I would post if people were not aware of this possibly.
Posting from an account of someone else in our household.