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annewandering said:
There is no way to get a vet to do this? The main problem I see is that you can not put the bird to sleep to do the amputation. If they are not asleep they are going to go into shock, I would think. If the tissue is dead past the joint then it has to be a bone cut and if you consider how bones of birds splinter you can see how that is not going to be a good thing. The entire wing could be amputated but surely that is also needing a vet with their meds and tools.
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Anne - Believe me, I understand and appreciate your concern. I would most definitely prefer to have the work done by a licensed vet. I agree that would be best for the bird, but that is not an option, for several reasons. Whatever care this bird gets, it gets from me. I will do what ever I can do to help this bird as long as it is not suffering unnecessarily. Right now, the duck seems happy and comfortable. I am watching the progress of the healing and monitoring her quality of life. I am also considering possible options and educating myself in case those options become necessary. I have no intention of letting this bird suffer, but I am not opposed to causing some temporary pain (shots hurt, setting a bone hurts, cleaning wounds hurts, etc.) in order to give it a chance of healing and surviving and living a long life as a happy duck. If the bone and tissue is dead, it will not hurt at all to snip it off. If that were the case here, I would have already done it. There appears to be some improvement in the area below the most severe wound, so I am watching to see if it heals on it's own. If at any point, the duck is depressed, lethargic, stops eating or shows any sign that it can not recover, I will humanely euthanize it. Until then, I will do whatever I feel will help.
 
gryeyes said:
Wisher, I think I love you.
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(The way I love my close friends, not anything you should be worried about.)
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group hug time
 
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gryeyes said:
Wisher, I THINK I love you.
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(The way I love my close friends, not anything you should be worried about.)
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LOL! Back at you girlfriend! Let me know when you are certain!
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If you will remember, I told you a few months ago that I thought you and I would be great friends, if we lived closer together.

I am a "touchy-feely-tell-everybody-I-love-them" type of person, too, but even I feel I have to qualify to people that may not know me well, right SCG? It's a shame we feel that need........... but we all understand!

ozexpat said:
group hug time
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I'm always up for a group hug among friends. I do, however, try to avoid them at crime scenes, airports, and on elevators.
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Wisher1000 said:
Anne - Believe me, I understand and appreciate your concern. I would most definitely prefer to have the work done by a licensed vet. I agree that would be best for the bird, but that is not an option, for several reasons. Whatever care this bird gets, it gets from me. I will do what ever I can do to help this bird as long as it is not suffering unnecessarily. Right now, the duck seems happy and comfortable. I am watching the progress of the healing and monitoring her quality of life. I am also considering possible options and educating myself in case those options become necessary. I have no intention of letting this bird suffer, but I am not opposed to causing some temporary pain (shots hurt, setting a bone hurts, cleaning wounds hurts, etc.) in order to give it a chance of healing and surviving and living a long life as a happy duck. If the bone and tissue is dead, it will not hurt at all to snip it off. If that were the case here, I would have already done it. There appears to be some improvement in the area below the most severe wound, so I am watching to see if it heals on it's own. If at any point, the duck is depressed, lethargic, stops eating or shows any sign that it can not recover, I will humanely euthanize it. Until then, I will do whatever I feel will help.
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I am glad to see that there are people that love their animals but still retain some semblance of rationality. I get aggravated when people start screaming that animals are people, too and that they should be treated as good a people, better, in fact. I love my animals, I have animals that I tend to and that belong to me. I will treat them well, but they are pets, not family. I will even spend more on them than they are worth for sentimental reasons, but when it comes right down to it. It is just a chicken, we eat them, for crying out loud. I get attached, but I can't say that my pet deserves to be more entitled than the one I ordered at my last trip to Chic-Fil-A. It was the luck of the draw for my chooks. If they end up culled due to a confirmation fault or sent to freezer camp after living in a secure coop, free ranging in the forest and meadows, and being fed treats from my hand, are they really worse off than the ones that come through club Tyson? I think not. Having been born or bought into my corner of the world does not entitle an injured bird (or dog, or cat) to the best emergency medical care my money can buy, it does, however entitle it to humane treatment.
 

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