So my mother's dog tried to kill my bird...

[attackfish]

My mother's puppy, Daisy somehow bit my cockatiel, Sully through the bars of his cage, puncturing his wing and his body, and "de-gloving" his leg, which is to say removing all of the skin and rolling it down to his foot.  He is being cared for round the clock by the local bird vet, and may well not survive the night.  If he dies, he may lose his foot.  I sat there with him in the car while my mother drove with him tucked into my chest and just...  I'm terrified for him.  He's my baby.  I'm hopeful, because he started to perk up and come out of shock on the way to the vet, and headbutted me every time I stopped scratching his neck, but I really really could use some distraction right about now.

ETA: He survived the night, and when I went to see him, he chirped at me, and looked at me like, "Wow, last night sucked, Mom, can I go home now?"  The vet thinks he'll be fine, but she's not letting me take him home yet.  Unfortunately, the reason I was at the vet was because his mate, Archie, it turns out, had also been injured.  Daisy got her leg.  In the middle of the night, it swelled up, and she started biting at it, and when we uncovered her this morning, she had gone into shock.  The vet is not optimistic about her chances.  She was much worse off than Sully was, and I was terrified she was going to die in the car.  We now think Daisy got Archie's leg, and Sully and Beni (my lovebird boy) came over to defend them, and Sully was injured in the fight.  Beni has a bruised nare, and spent last night trying to feed Archie.  Archie is drinking apple juice and is being treated for shock, and the longer she lives, the more likely she'll come out of it okay.  All we can do is hope.

ETA2: Archie passed away.  Aparently, she also had head trauma from the attack, and was having seizures.  One of them killed her a few minutes ago.  She was six years old.

Comments

[danceswithwaves.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. I hope he comes through just fine. What type of distraction are you looking for? Something to read? A game to play? (I tend to get sucked into Text Twist, which I'm sure you can find by googling it. It also requires thinking, so it might help as a distraction.)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He's a tough little bird, so I'm hoping. Archie, his mate, is beside herself. I cuddled her a lot this evening. Vid recs, jokes, fic recs, that kind of thing.

[danceswithwaves.livejournal.com]

My drunk kitchen on youtube is hilarious, or sometimes merely amusing. (https://www.youtube.com/user/MyHarto)

Also, I don't know your views on sex and sexuality, but I've been watching a lot of Laci Green, a youtube personality who talks about sex positive topics. (https://www.youtube.com/user/lacigreen?feature=chclk)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I have addicts in the family, so I really really don't like watching inebriated people. (Yeah, I did not party) and *blinks* I'm bisexual (which isn't the best descriptor, mulitsexual fits better), sexually active, and monogamous, whereas my best friend is trans*, pansexual, and poly, and my other best friend is genderqueer and monosexual. Very liberal, I assure you. Also more than usually well schooled in anatomy. The videos were kind of beginner level, though.

[danceswithwaves.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the drunk kitchen videos. I don't party either, but I don't know any addicts, so I don't have the same level of dislike.

I tend to like how Laci presents things, even if I already know what she's talking about. I find her enthusiasm catching.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Bad memories.

She is that. I liked her handmade model of the female reproductive system out of playdough or sculpy clay or something.