Not sure what you mean by "pedi-perch." She had a heated perch up high and a dowel perch up high (for the last month only), and she was sitting on the dowel one a bunch. When I noted the red spots I swapped out the dowel for a rope perch. There's another dowel halfway down the cage that she rarely uses, and a natural perch between the middle and the top that she also rarely uses. Someone on PL recommended I keep the rope one high until her feet return to normal, and then put natural wood high. There was a consensus that I don't need to panic as of yet, but if they get worse I should make a vet appointment.
I'm planning on stopping at the PetCo near the Holyoke Mall on my way home today, since I'm rarely in Hadley but drive by the mall every day. That PetCo has quite a few natural wood perch choices, though I think Dave's did have more.
One thing that T$ pointed out to me that I hadn't thought of is that Peeper never appeared to have any problem with dowel perches, and I think that's all she had for most of her life. My best guess is that Gabe is just less hardy due to inbreeding (she also breaks blood feathers every few months, and Peeper never did her whole life), but it's also possible that Peeper had different sized dowels and that made things better, or she got used to the dowel perches somehow, or since her feet were darker colored than Gabe's that she actually did have problems but I never observed it. *shrug* What matters is fixing things for Gabe now.
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Date: 2007-11-05 03:23 pm (UTC)Not sure what you mean by "pedi-perch." She had a heated perch up high and a dowel perch up high (for the last month only), and she was sitting on the dowel one a bunch. When I noted the red spots I swapped out the dowel for a rope perch. There's another dowel halfway down the cage that she rarely uses, and a natural perch between the middle and the top that she also rarely uses. Someone on PL recommended I keep the rope one high until her feet return to normal, and then put natural wood high. There was a consensus that I don't need to panic as of yet, but if they get worse I should make a vet appointment.
I'm planning on stopping at the PetCo near the Holyoke Mall on my way home today, since I'm rarely in Hadley but drive by the mall every day. That PetCo has quite a few natural wood perch choices, though I think Dave's did have more.
One thing that T$ pointed out to me that I hadn't thought of is that Peeper never appeared to have any problem with dowel perches, and I think that's all she had for most of her life. My best guess is that Gabe is just less hardy due to inbreeding (she also breaks blood feathers every few months, and Peeper never did her whole life), but it's also possible that Peeper had different sized dowels and that made things better, or she got used to the dowel perches somehow, or since her feet were darker colored than Gabe's that she actually did have problems but I never observed it. *shrug* What matters is fixing things for Gabe now.