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.
One of these days I'm going to start an OnlyFeathers for him. It's about time he starts paying rent!
Miss Echolalia is an excellent name for a parrot! What sounds or phrases are her favourite to repeat?
Yes! "Masturbating Marty", they call him. I decided to leave Reddit, though I left my profile intact because I think there's important information there.
I've been doing my links like: [/c/cockatiel](https://lemmy.world/c/cockatiel)
No idea if it works or not.
There's a community here for parrots and one for cockatiels specifically! I've added a link to Backyard Chickens to the sidebar of the parrots community. 🙂
A lot of the psittacine medical knowledge base is actually from poultry research. They’re surprisingly similar anatomically!
One big difference is that hens lay eggs every day, that still blows my mind. A parrot risks death if they lay more than twice a year because they can’t recover enough dietary calcium quickly enough.
I have parrots which are the same as chickens but more manipulative. Subscribing.
What a beautiful birb!
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.