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Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg
Posted by Sandpiper on 1/09/10

I just caught him and put some of the petroleum jelly on his leg. I
was shaking the entire time. He kept squirmming, and I could feel
his little heart beating as fast as you please. At first, I tried
to cut his toenails, but I was unable to do it. I was shaking too
much, and I was so afraid of hurting him. I was told not to get the
vaseline on his feathers. HA! That is much easier said than done,
but I think I mostly avoided his feathers.

I put him back in his cage just now, and he seems very upset. He is
not singing, and he sort of hunkered down on his perch. I knew he
would be traumatized by this. I put on some classical music for
him, but he just will not sing. I hope this vaseline works to cure
his leg.

Is there something I can do to exterminate his cage? If it is
indeed mites than have gotten to him, I imagine they will keep
coming back.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/08/10, by Sandpiper.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/08/10, by GreenLady.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/08/10, by Sandpiper.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/08/10, by GreenLady.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/09/10, by Sandpiper.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/09/10, by Sandpiper.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/09/10, by GreenLady.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 1/11/10, by Sandpiper.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 2/19/10, by Suzanne.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 2/20/10, by Warning.
• Re: Help--My Canary keeps chewing/biting one leg, 2/20/10, by Sandpiper.