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.)

[sharkflip.livejournal.com]

This is three of my chickens in one nest box, right next to an empty nest box:



This is the chicken we call "Recidivist", conquering the tractor again:


These are my chickens plowing my fields for me:

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

awwww!

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

The most horrifying version of Dr. Seuss as done by a DC Villain.



Imagine terrified children in Villain Academy Kindergarten.

[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.

.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

That will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.

Anybody think we could get Grey DeLisle to read this in Azula's voice?

[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)

Re:

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

That would be the worst community service...ever.

Azula-I'm ordered to read to children as part of repaying my debt to society....And the Little Engine that could...failed. Because it was defeated for all time! It could never rise from the ashes of its shame and humiliation!

Children-TRAUMATIZED

Re:

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Hello, little boy. Stop crying. It's alright. You never had a chance. I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing. So you had to struggle and connive and claw your way to where you are, but you are powerless, and always will be. Power, true power, the divine right to rule, is something you're born with. The fact is, we both know which one of is is going to be bowing down. Now, who wants to do crafts? We're going to make origami models of the fall of Ba Sing Se!

[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.

Re:

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Nothing can top that mental image.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

You're in my prayers.

So, as far as distraction goes, you can listen to me complain about A:TLA. Sound like fun?

I always thought Aang's fun-loving, irresponsible and downright hedonistic behavior (e.g., his trip to Kyoshi Island) was at odds with his monkly upbringing. On the other hand, he's also twelve at the time; not always living up to his culture's standards comes with the territory. I do wonder whether Aang will end up adopting a mix of cultures from around the world and across time (as befits the Avatar, I suppose), and will seem less strictly Air as time goes on.

Sokka trains as a swordsmith unbelievably quickly. It broke my suspension of disbelief.

Fun fact: in typing that, I initially wrote "Sokka trans" and am now wondering about that idea. Thoughts?

Sokka was very rushed in the third season, and yet, after several days of being sidetracked, they arrived early. What gives?

Remember "no, Firelord Ozai, you're not wearing pants"? I consider this a Crowning Moment of Awesome and, simultaneously, a Crowning Moment of Funny.

Lava is made of earth, isn't it? Why isn't it bendable?

Could Toph bend Combustion Man's leg?

I have this horribly bad Jak and Daxter crossover idea. Somehow it involves Zuko losing his right eye and swamp dude telling him blindness is like death in that it’s an illusion and Daxter in the Avatar world on Zuko’s ship and Jak not getting saved in time and Aang saving Haven City. Or maybe it would involve Zuko doing that... and walking into walls because he refuses to admit how bad his left eye’s vision is, which would be humorous, but also serious underneath the humor.

Ironically, when Ozai made Azula Firelord, I thought she was hallucinating it.

Here is something copied verbatim from the notes I kept while watching the series, specifically from the part where they planned for Sozin's Comet: HAHAHA need a magic everythingbender with zillions of reincarnations? Iroh can sub.

How did Azula bend lightning when she was so upset? Doesn't it require peace of mind?

Here is another comment taken verbatim from my notes: So it turns out the fanon I thought was canon from fanfics was wrong. LOL.

Re:

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I try.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I don't necessarily see Aang as hedonistic, but he's far from the perfect monk. On the other hand, twelve year old boys =/= perfect monks. I wonder if as the last Air nomad, he ever feels guilty because he isn't the sort of Platonic ideal of an Air Nomad.

Oh yes, me too. I'm a metal worker and I train in martial arts, and that whole episode, I was like "years, this would take years, *sob*"

I have my epic trans* man!Zuko fic, so no comment. No comment at all.

I loved dream!Ozai giving Aang a math test.

We see an unnamed fire avatar bending lava at some point. I've seen it theorized that it doesn't like to respond to earthbending techniques and that it would have to be a specialized skill, like sandbending. Maybe Avatars, who have to know fire and waterbending would be better at bending hot liquid earth.

Bet she could if she were close enough. It seems like while she was perfecting it, she did much better if she were touching it.

I know nothing about Jak and Daxter.

As the Buddhist monk said to the sandwich shop, "Make me one with everything."

I think it requires clarity of purpose. She had clarity of purpose even at her most distraught.

[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.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

I think that's a very good point. I bet Aang would feel that way. There must be a lot of angst involved in being the only survivor of anything, especially at twelve.

I loved dream!Ozai, period.

Interesting; that could be. It seems as if Roku should have been able to do something, in that case. Why couldn't he?

As far as Azula, that makes sense.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

He was old and weak and tired? He didn't know how? It was just too much to do it while the volcano was exploding around him? He was weak from breathing the ash and the volcanic gas? It wasn't the lava, but the other volcanic substances causing most of the problems? (it usually isn't the lava in real life) we don't know.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

That makes sense now. I always wondered why he couldn't bend the lava.

What do you make of Teo's bandages?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I assumed they might be cosmetic, covering up horrible scarring, or something. I didn't give them that much thought, to be honest.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Couldn't he cover up horrible scarring with his pant legs? And why are they bandaged together?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Muscular atrophy, and he's using them to give his legs bulk? maybe the skin is sensitive and pants would move too much and chafe? Maybe someone in the art department got lazy about drawing them separate (which is probably the most likely, let's face it)? Maybe he has muscular twitches, and strapping his legs together hides it. Maybe thy knock against each other too much when he flies (though he really should also be strapping them down) maybe it got to be a pattern, and he just never stopped doing it after they healed?

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

His thighs are bulky enough to be proportional, but only his lower legs are bandaged, which could make sense if, say, Teo's disability is anything at all other than T12 paraplegia (which often seems to be the only disability ever shown in fiction, so I'm privileging the hypothesis that it's what the creators of Avatar meant). He's also wearing pants under the bandages. If he were doing it to keep them under control while flying, he wouldn't need to sleep with them bandaged, right? (Perhaps he's shown sleeping in bandages because in the same shot, he's sleeping in his clothes and could conceivably need to run soon, pun not intended.) Spasticity could be a reason, as could aesthetic sensibilities that prefer keeping his legs together (for the same reason that single center footplates exist, I suppose). I don't think it's artistic laziness; we never have a shot of them looking clearly separate, and they're clearly all one piece not only in the anime but also in the comics.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I thought of the muscular twitches because when my legs are going at it, the only way I get any sleep is to tie them together with my bathrobe. I didn't know he had pants under the bandages. This makes me more eager to say spasticity.

I got the impression his legs themselves were crushed. You're right, it's almost always a subset of spinal injuries in media representing all disability, and especially all wheelchair use, but before modern medicine got better at dealing with paralysis, people with paraplegia nearly all died of infections in the first year. Teo wouldn't have survived if he had paraplegia in the avatarverse.

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your pet. Hugs.