Hey guys I'm new to this forum but I've always come on here to get tips on anything I'm curious about so I figured this is the best place to ask a question!
Anyways, I have a couple of cats and I always keep them out of my bird room. They've never really tried to get to my birds anyways, but I'm always extremely cautious. The other night I left my room for two minutes & forgot to close the door... so the cat had got one of my budgies in his mouth. Apparently he didn't have a tight grip on my budgie as it was very easy for me to grab him out of the cats mouth, he flew away just fine. After that incident happened, my budgies wing was injured because he was holding it up. No blood or anything but I still took him to the ER Vet to be safe. They kept him overnight in an oxygen cage & gave him antibiotics for possibly blood poisoning from the cats mouth. They said there were no cuts seen but he had a couple of bruises on his neck and wing. I went the next day to see how my bird was doing and he seemed very happy, flying around and not holding his wing up anymore. The vet told me he looked horrible in the morning and wasn't eating or drinking so i was expecting the worst. He seemed to think my budgie wasn't going to make it and advised me not to take him home because he would probably die and wanted me to keep him there for another night. I decided to take my budgie home because he seemed great and he wont eat or drink if its not from his bowls, when I brought him home he was singing and eat & drank so much. Its been 3 days since I took him home from the vet and have been giving him the prescribed antibiotics myself. He seems completely fine and normal, he's singing and eating and flapping his wings in the cage because he wants to get out (they told me to not let him fly for a week because of his bruised wing.)
I wanted to throw out there he is 9 this year. He seems to have a very very small bobbing of his tail occasionally, it's not always there but it's still a concern to me. I'm not sure if its the medication or the possible infection he could be fighting off thats causing him to have trouble breathing? Today he started making this weird throat noise... i really cant describe it but it sounds almost like he needs to clear this throat??? or some type of gargling... There's no coughing or beak breathing, he still makes normal chirping sounds. I find the weird sound to be present when he's eating from his crop??? I'm bringing him to another vet tomorrow to get a second opinion on him but I wanted to know what you all think? Than you!