Paula

Well I can hardly believe it …. Angels is going in for her 1st operation to try and make the bad leg usable tomorrow (21st February 2012).

I am so hoping that it goes well and she is given a chance to have a straighter leg and the chance to be a bit more of a normal bird and be able to use a perch…. something she has never been able to do.

Steve Smith will be doing the operation and there is some risks involved with the operation as there are with most major surgeries the operation will be very tricky and there is always that risk she might not come out of it, things can go wrong like when Steve is operating the bones may shatter but I will have everything crossed and I hope you all will too!

She has lots of you to thank for this the chance at living a much nicer life so a massive thank you to all have donated for her to have her 1st operation, all being well with this one she will need the 2nd leg done and we will be once again raising the funds for this, we already have a little head start on this so that is fantastic!

I will of course keep you updated on the topic on our forum and I will blog about it also once i have had the phone call, she will be staying over night and be home the next day all being good.

For those of you that haven’t seen Angel in the flesh here is a movie of the cheeky girl!, She really is a darling so please god let this gorgeous bird have a crack at life!!

Love Paula + Angel xx

Well it has been a while since I posted about Angel, things are still the same she is her normal lovely self and is starting to chat a lot more now which is nice as she didn’t really say much when I collected her apart from a naughty word!She really has settled in to our house and chatters more and more as the days go on! She knows her new name that’s for sure!

She has got use to her little corner cage and is using the little rope hammock thing I put in there so she can stand/learn by her bowl, she is normally mostly comfy hanging on to the front of her cage which saddens me but I guess it is the angle of her feet that is just how best she can hold on, as she sits like that most of the time she always poop’s out of the front of the cage, so its a nice job to do each morning cleaning the front of the cage down and the floor which I covered with a plastic carpet protector (good stuff that!). So i am pleased she is trusting her cage and using the things I put in place to make her life a bit easier, she does still from time to time get her bad bad leg caught round the bars, and if I am not there at that moment she sits and waits for me to free her, its very cute she doesn’t get in a mess and flap trying to free herself she just waits, so I think she knows it’s not going to work.

I put Angel on Animalzone foods and she took to it straight away the pellets and muesli and over the last 2 weeks I have been giving her the Animalzone Cereal and she adores it, she has it warm in the morning first thing when I come down to change her food and water, (she sleeps on her water bowl so it is always messy by morning) she goes mad for it and gets really stuck in, she will sit there for a good hour just eating so i am happy about that.

Here are some photos of her enjoying it

Look at me with it all round my mouth!!!

She is such a darling and I hope that her going in for her operation will give her at least a slightly normal life which she so deserves, just to be able to perch like a normal bird would be enough

I will post about her operation date tomorrow as I am pretty tired right now after not feeling well since the weekend and a poorly rabbit to nurse too it will be much easier on a fresh head!

Massive thanks from us at AGPC and Angel too for donating and making this possible…

Catch you tomorrow … lots of love x

Well who can believe 2012 is here already how fast did last year go!! It is crazy how quickly the years fly past now when your younger a month seemed like a year!!

Hope you all enjoyed your Christmas, we had a great time apart from our little girl being really ill christmas ill and christmas day but we still made it special and santa paid her a visit ) and on our Forum we had the christmas raffle (massive thanks to Pat for sorting out the raffle) with over 20 prizes and secret santa and also we sold lots of the human cook books which the funds all went into Angels appeal.

Angel has been fine well as fine as she can be bless her she is still on Metacam and her normal quiet self, she never plays with toys i think it is because she can’t use her feet like a normal grey and she normally just hangs on to the side of the cage. I have been trying different toys every week to see what I could get her to play with and up until this week nothing worked until I had a really simple toy idea! I placed a plastic cat ball which has a small bell inside so it rattles onto a fruit kebab stick and hung it near where she sits on the food bowl and success she played with it non stop for about 6 hours!! I was so chuffed it was so nice to hear her playing with the ball, it brought a tear to my eye as it is so sad to have seen her a grey not play with toys because of her deformed legs! This is why i think this operation is a must as she has not much of a life the way she is and to live the next 20+ years like this it’s no life!

We have raised even more money last month and we are not far off the amount we need for her to have her first leg done.. see the poster below for totals. So looks like she will have her operation this month. So a massive thank you to all who have donated so far we still have a little to raise to cover the after care and medications but we are more of less there.

As soon as I have her date confirmed I will let you all know