Just thought I would stop by with some updates (Not all good I'm afraid) as it's been so long. Time has run away and continues to do so but it's nearly 1am and I am awake and worrying.
How are you all? I'm hoping there will be some of you here who remember me.
Well it only took years but Ollie and Rena finally bonded last July. I can't tell you how happy I was about that! It is really lovely to see them all cuddled up. I'm not sure why they suddenly fell in love after ignoring each other for years. We lost our Rabbit Bunny the month before We took on two rescues at the beginning of July, they are called Susie and Jojo. We didn't get off to a good start with the new rabbits, they were terrified and came with health issues so the first few weeks they got even more frightened because of having to medicate them. They've settled in nicely now though.
Our mice have all moved on too, the last one made it to 3 years old so we are now a family of 2 people, 2 birds, 2 rabbits.
Ollie had a funny turn towards the start of the year. Scared the hell out of me. One second he was preening Rena, the next his head was fallen to his left. I picked him up and put him on the sofa so he didn't fall whilst I phoned our vet. During the time I was on the phone Ollie collapsed completely and he was struggling to keep his eyes open. He had deteriorated so fast I told my vet we wouldn't make it to the surgery. We did and to my suprise by the time we got to surgery he could stand again. Our vet took him home with him, he improved so much he came home the next day and a few days later it was like nothing had ever happened.
Today Rena is the one scaring me. She seemed fine yesterday. Today she's ripped her chest feathers out and was having trouble breathing. Our own vet was unavailable so we had to go to a non avian out of hours vet to get referred to another practice with an avian vet present. Not got the best first impression of this new vet despite the fact he is very highly regarded but I've had no choice so she's had an x-ray and is Egg bound. I've got no idea what the outcome will be yet except this will be the most expensive vets bill I've ever had in one go. I don't care, I just want her to be ok.
Sorry for coming back on such a bad note.