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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • My African Grey’s name is Theodore; Theo for short. He’s a very “standard” parrot. Theo is curious and destructive, but afraid of new things and afraid of new people. I’m sure that he’ll get better with time. He just needs to see that we won’t abandon him again. I know that none of what happened was my fault, but I still feel guilty about it, especially when I get frustrated with him. I have to keep reminding myself that we’re both trying to recover.




  • My African Grey was definitely traumatized. He (understandably) developed some separation anxiety. From his perspective, he was alone for 14 hours, in the dark (because the power was out), then there was a big scary noise in the middle of the night and strangers kidnapped him.

    Marty’s emotionally unaffected. I took both birds out in their carriers to a pet-friendly shop the other day (trying to teach them that carriers don’t always mean they’re going somewhere bad) and Marty said “Hi Marty” to everything.


  • We never got around to it, no. We were preparing to do a trial of Fluoxetine (Prozac), but the compounding pharmacy said that they weren’t able to make a dose small enough to have room to titrate for his tiny little body. Our next plan was to try Clomipramine, but the whole wild fire thing happened. Marty lost his tail and has been absolutely exhausted while re-growing it. He hasn’t been exhibiting as much hormonal behaviour because he’s sleeping so often. Once he’s back to normal, we’ll consider trying Clomipramine.