Lookit I'm BAAAACK!!!
Ok so after a fairly lengthy absence, and receiving several emails, and calls regarding my health and safety................no I am not Broken...............*does a quick once over and pat down............nope all assembled and non broken. I am back.
Things have been rather hectic for me of late, with the moving of ones office from Moonah to Salamanca, Christmas preparations, Ant invasions and Hand raising a baby cockatiel.
Mum's Cockatiels outside, decided that it was rather cold, and instead of purchasing a T.V like any normal animal would do, they though it would be a much better idea to get down and funky with their bad selves..........................and around 30 days later, there are 4 very nekked and very cute babies in the nesting box. One, was booted from the nest and subsequently died. And then there were 3. Now, as the process goes, the parent birds were feeding and warming and giving the general care to their young as they should, BUT somewhere along the line, something went wrong and they stopped feeding them, and even when to the extreme of booted one baby out.
So mum gave one baby to a friend who is currently raising and looking after that baby. And upon a successful completion of getting the bird to eat seed, will keep the bird as her own. That leaves 2 right?
So with birds 1 and 2, also known as Sparrow and Loki this is the story.
Once inside mum began the tedious task of feeding Sparrow and Loki with special bird raising formula and a spoon. This was going well until Loki got really, really sick. Enter Mel with her massive amounts of information on Birds. Upon my arrival, Loki looked bad, Laying on his side and he could not sit up, wheezing and shivering. Mum had come to the conclusion that Loki would be dead by the end of the day. But I was dammed if I was going to give up. Enter the hot water bottle. Snuggled against my chest, wrapped in towels and heated by the hot water bottle, Loki started to improve a little. A trip to James Harris the avian vet in Sandy Bay and a great several $$ later, it was concluded that Loki did not have any illness, no bacteria or infection, the vet came to the conclusion that Loki could have a developmental problem which could be hindering his well development. It would seem that sue to this problem Loki was starved, and malnourished.
With the purchase of a heat pad and smaller 'hospital' cage, some tender Levin care and being fed every 3 hours Loki was well on the way to recovery.
Now in order to administer these feeds every 3 hours, little Loki has been coming to work with me...................Yes people, C. Johnstone and Associates now has a mascot!!
The guys at work find it all rather amusing, on the first day I had Loki here, a client arrived to collect some plans, he was rather surprise to find the office manager (that'd be me) talking on the phone whilst feeding Loki. Clint then replied, Hi and welcome to CJA Engineers and Vetenary services!! And seeing as how I feed Loki in the lunch room, this just seems to amuse them further! *shrug
No I have taken some pics of Loki and will post them soon.
Today Loki is investigating the seed and water containers in his cage. He is whistling and tweeting often and trust me when I say, My god he's so cute!!
Now by all means Loki is not 'out of the woods yet' we still need to get him off the formula and onto eating seed and things. He has also managed to hurt his foot and has an appointment with the vet this afternoon.
Now as for Sparrow, he/she is well and has had no problems at all, and Sparrow goes to a new home after christmas as he/she has been promised to friends of Mum and Dad's. As for Loki, after all this time and lovin, he is staying with us, well with mum to be exact, (unfortunately I don't have the room for another bird otherwise Loki would be heading home with me!) We just don't want to run the risk of selling him to someone and have them not look after him properly. So, move over Monty, Carlo and Pie, LOKI is in the house!!
So that people is why I have been AWOL!!
Now onto christmas things. Adrian gets back from his Darwin/Christmas Island Navy trip on the 17th of December so I am going to say right now, there will be no updates over christmas!!
The slow but steady invasion of ants that I have been having over the past few weeks will come to an abrupt end as I have arranged for an exterminator to well come exterminate them!! *insert EVIL laugh here* Little fuckers.
And that people is what I call and update of massive proportions. I hope that this will suffice and keep you all happy and content for a while as I am not sure when I'll be able to do another update, (other than posting pics of Loki)
- Melody
Things have been rather hectic for me of late, with the moving of ones office from Moonah to Salamanca, Christmas preparations, Ant invasions and Hand raising a baby cockatiel.
Mum's Cockatiels outside, decided that it was rather cold, and instead of purchasing a T.V like any normal animal would do, they though it would be a much better idea to get down and funky with their bad selves..........................and around 30 days later, there are 4 very nekked and very cute babies in the nesting box. One, was booted from the nest and subsequently died. And then there were 3. Now, as the process goes, the parent birds were feeding and warming and giving the general care to their young as they should, BUT somewhere along the line, something went wrong and they stopped feeding them, and even when to the extreme of booted one baby out.
So mum gave one baby to a friend who is currently raising and looking after that baby. And upon a successful completion of getting the bird to eat seed, will keep the bird as her own. That leaves 2 right?
So with birds 1 and 2, also known as Sparrow and Loki this is the story.
Once inside mum began the tedious task of feeding Sparrow and Loki with special bird raising formula and a spoon. This was going well until Loki got really, really sick. Enter Mel with her massive amounts of information on Birds. Upon my arrival, Loki looked bad, Laying on his side and he could not sit up, wheezing and shivering. Mum had come to the conclusion that Loki would be dead by the end of the day. But I was dammed if I was going to give up. Enter the hot water bottle. Snuggled against my chest, wrapped in towels and heated by the hot water bottle, Loki started to improve a little. A trip to James Harris the avian vet in Sandy Bay and a great several $$ later, it was concluded that Loki did not have any illness, no bacteria or infection, the vet came to the conclusion that Loki could have a developmental problem which could be hindering his well development. It would seem that sue to this problem Loki was starved, and malnourished.
With the purchase of a heat pad and smaller 'hospital' cage, some tender Levin care and being fed every 3 hours Loki was well on the way to recovery.
Now in order to administer these feeds every 3 hours, little Loki has been coming to work with me...................Yes people, C. Johnstone and Associates now has a mascot!!
The guys at work find it all rather amusing, on the first day I had Loki here, a client arrived to collect some plans, he was rather surprise to find the office manager (that'd be me) talking on the phone whilst feeding Loki. Clint then replied, Hi and welcome to CJA Engineers and Vetenary services!! And seeing as how I feed Loki in the lunch room, this just seems to amuse them further! *shrug
No I have taken some pics of Loki and will post them soon.
Today Loki is investigating the seed and water containers in his cage. He is whistling and tweeting often and trust me when I say, My god he's so cute!!
Now by all means Loki is not 'out of the woods yet' we still need to get him off the formula and onto eating seed and things. He has also managed to hurt his foot and has an appointment with the vet this afternoon.
Now as for Sparrow, he/she is well and has had no problems at all, and Sparrow goes to a new home after christmas as he/she has been promised to friends of Mum and Dad's. As for Loki, after all this time and lovin, he is staying with us, well with mum to be exact, (unfortunately I don't have the room for another bird otherwise Loki would be heading home with me!) We just don't want to run the risk of selling him to someone and have them not look after him properly. So, move over Monty, Carlo and Pie, LOKI is in the house!!
So that people is why I have been AWOL!!
Now onto christmas things. Adrian gets back from his Darwin/Christmas Island Navy trip on the 17th of December so I am going to say right now, there will be no updates over christmas!!
The slow but steady invasion of ants that I have been having over the past few weeks will come to an abrupt end as I have arranged for an exterminator to well come exterminate them!! *insert EVIL laugh here* Little fuckers.
And that people is what I call and update of massive proportions. I hope that this will suffice and keep you all happy and content for a while as I am not sure when I'll be able to do another update, (other than posting pics of Loki)
- Melody
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