A rescue animal is truly a gift that can change your life and bring you monumental happiness and gratitude. Pets teach you responsibility, patience, kindness, discipline, playfulness and, most importantly, unconditional love.
Everybody has a different way of dealing with the loss of a precious feathered friend. There are some general things that you can do in order to make it a little easier to cope.
THE STORY BEHIND ALL STAR PARROTS
You may be wondering where the “All Star Parrots” name came from so I will explain.
In December 2016 a little Blue and Gold Macaw hatched from his egg. Over the next couple of months we are unsure of his journey. He soon landed within my home through another charity I was helping.
With an over stretched, self mutilated crop, unable to feed himself, perch like a bird should and very scared of us. Our days became a strict routine of formula feeds and medications to make the crop work. Also for yeast and bacteria in the crop. He soon realised he could trust us and he learned what love was. We decided to change this gorgeous boys name to STAR.
We spent our days having cuddles in the aviary with the sun upon his feathers. On cold days we had snuggles in bed watching box sets. Star made me a Game Of Thrones fan.
Sadly all the love in the world was not enough, and our beautiful boys body started to shut down. No matter how much he ate it was not going past the crop causing him to starve. In turn medication wasn’t working.
He was rushed to my vets, and in just 14 hours our boy was gone, the only choice for him was the rainbow bridge.
I had no experience with macaws, in fact they are one of the birds that scare me. We built such a wonderful bond in the time he was here, there was no doubt about it. You may be wondering why? who’s to blame? In my opinion it would be the breeder. He sold this poor boy onto someone with no experience. Star was over fed via a syringe the wrong food for many months. This poor boy was damaged at a young age and there was no fixing him.
I know I would not like to go through this again, but I will if I have to. I don’t regret a thing as I’ve learnt. I’ve learnt much from this and feel I can now help others in need. Star has become my driving force and in his name I will do my very best to help educate people. There are too many birds being bred by irresponsible breeders who have no regard to where their babies end up.
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