#stumpy

[kedreeva]

I am currently babysitting a recent-amputee peacock for a friend who is out of town. His breeder did not take the proper precautions of installing wide enough perches for winter roosting, and predictably this boy got such severe frostbite on both feet that most of all of his toes turned necrotic, and eventually (this last week) fell off.

Losing toes to frostbite like this is extremely painful. And yet most fowl owners will shrug and inform you that the bird will "get around fine" after the toes (or even the whole foot) fall off. They do not give the birds any painkillers, no meds for circulation (which could potentially save more of the foot/toes), no antibiotics (despite that the bird is facing a major amputation that includes bones, wounds that could easily lead to bone infection or sepsis), nothing. They don't keep the wounds particularly clean usually, either; the bird is lucky if it even gets separated for any care at all. And this poor guy was unfortunately no exception.

Thankfully, his breeder surrendered him free to a friend of mine, who got him to my vet and got plenty of care for him. However, he's facing not just the frostbite, but injuries to his head and neck from the other birds picking on him for moving funny, and severe malnutrition from not having gotten enough to eat (it's hard to want to eat when you're in staggering amounts of pain and it's hard to move to go to the food).

He arrived here Sunday, and even though it's been a month, he didn't feel significantly more filled in than he'd been when I first picked him up. He also absolutely reeked. Like, I know peafowl poo isn't a fantastic smell but this was so much worse. Since he was staying inside at my house, it stank up the whole house badly enough even I could smell it.

So Monday morning, I gave him a bath. He's been in pain and having a hard time walking, so instead he's just been kind of laying in it when he poops or passes urates. His belly was caked. It turned the bathwater brown. But, I got him cleaned up as much as could, while using this bath as a chance to soak the foot wounds. Because when he came out, we had a little debriding session with his most recently amputated foot, where I cut away 1/2" portions of even thicker scabs caked in mud and ??? that also reeked. I sanitized the wounds, applied the silver sulfadiazine cream she's given me for it, and wrapped it up gently (and without the weird donut thing she wrapped into his dressing).

He slept VERY soundly on a heat pad for a while after that, but once he was up he seemed a lot more comfy putting a little bit of weight on the bandaged foot..

He's also getting meds tubed to his crop, along with liquid feed. Every morning, I make him a scrambled peafowl egg, and every morning he wolfs it down like he's never had food before in his life. Today, for the first time since Sunday (so 3 days ago at this point), he started having solid poop again. Tonight, he was chowing down on feed all by himself before I did evening meds.

So, I'm hoping for a speedy or at least good recovery for him.

Here he is honking at me because I gave him a foot bath because he did a massive poop and then immediately stepped in it. So fun.

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[ainawgsd]

Her name is Stumpy and I love her so much!

We went to the Columbus Zoo today. My favorites were the manatees and the red pandas.

[boudoiramputee]

Okay, okay for your viewing pleasure amateur crunching I’m really quite terrible at it .

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[cutieclangen]

Moon 25, Part 3

I decided to go with a simpler page instead of having a lot of dialogue, but I do want to clarify that they aren't giving up on Aspenpaw. Stormstrike explained that she was taken by the Twolegs and it wasn't safe to search right now, but who's to say what the future holds!

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[the-fucking-cannibal]

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[kedreeva]

what will you plan for the amputee peacock?

Nothing, he's not my bird. Like I said, I am just babysitting him for a week while his new owner is out of town. If it were my decision, he would have been humanely euthanized as soon as he was in my hot little hands, because these birds can survive and be just fine without wings, and they can do alright for a while with one injured leg, but both feet being nearly gone is asking for a low quality of life overall. He will have trouble moving around and perching at night (it will stress him not to perch, and lead to bedsores type lesions on his keel), he will not be able to distribute his weight properly so he will have muscle and tendon issues that are likely painful, not to mention that his feet will also probably have lesions often because of the way his weight will sit. I wouldn't put a bird through that, but a lot of people feel that every life is so precious it must be preserved even if it means putting an animal through a low quality of life and causing them pain permanently.

When people talk about animal welfare, this is part of it: being able to let go when a kind death is actually in the animal's best interest. And a lot of people just do not know where to draw that line. They will say things like they "don't have the heart" to put the animal down and they mean they feel bad doing so, but what it actually means is that they are cowards who don't have the stomach to be caretakers for animals in the way the animals need. I don't have respect for these sorts of people. I think it's cruel to allow animal suffering because you have emotions you're not handling well.

Legally I cannot do anything with this bird except take care of him while he's here for a few days. I am unhappy that both his breeder and his new owner are the sort of people they are, and I feel very badly for this little dude, but I will do whatever I can for him elsewise until his owner picks him up again. And I'll continue to hope that she comes to her senses and lets him go, and if she won't, I will try to get her to consider some kind of prosthetic to help with some of the issues he'll have, and environmental accommodations to assist with the rest.

[sunnydust2003]

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[sithvampiremaster27]

Stumpy of the Super Duper Bunny League meets Super Grover

[boudoiramputee]

Hot tub time

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[cutieclangen]

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