patience and being a very light sleeper and giving in to desire to sleep right next to me on my night stand has led to the problem, finally. she is falling into a deep sleep, and literally falling, she did it twice last night. I have a two tier night stand, top tier with a drawer, then lower level, she sat on the top level and fell asleep and boom, fell twice. Issue solved, now how to tackle this issue, first I will be keeping her in the travel cage for sleeping from now on, but i think i need to come up with some flat perches for her as well. I know it is not a seizure or anything because she is aware of what is going on as soon as i turn the lights on and check on her. will keep this updated as i go
It has been a while since my last post and even longer since this all started and I only have positivity to share. Puff is getting .02 ml of meds every morning, and only in the morning. So she gets one dose only, every morning with her breakfast, no evening dose and she is doing so amazing. The reason I chose to try cutting out the evening dose was because she was falling from her sleeping perch during the night, and most nights. Because I'm a very light sleeper I would hear her flap and get up to find her on the bottom of her cage looking stunned and a bit dazed. After moving her into my room to sleep so I could better observe, the conclusion I came to was the med was puting her into a very deep sleep and she lost balance control and/or fell as she was relaxing so much into a deep sleep. After stopping the evening dose I was no longer having this issue and she continued to leave all of her feathers in tact. One other thing I decided to do is every other Sunday she gets a med fre...
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