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

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I don't know, and I'm terrified to find out. The problem with Azula is that when she's not hallucinating, she's still a sociopath, so if they want compliance and manageability, re-grounding her in reality would be, uh, counterproductive. They also probably have a hard time applying any sort of treatment to her without her making highly effective attempts to murder them.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Very likely. You know my ideas already from the fic I wrote about it. I don't know how they could possibly keep from being killed long enough to do anything useful, but apparently they do, canonically, manage just that. I think going on a quest with Zuko will do more for Azula's sanity than anything her doctors could or would do.

Azula is a good opportunity to write an evil character who is coincidentally also mentally ill, and would be able to do more evil things if she were sane.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I think going on a quest with Zuko will do more for Azula's sanity than anything her doctors could or would do.

Me too.

Yes! One of the few things I like about Azula's psychosis is that it makes her less dangerous instead of more, as is usual with villains in stories.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Mental illness is represented amazingly badly in fiction. I hope that changes soon.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Ditto