Help! My cat hurt my bird!

[wildbird]

Infection does not always happen. I took a bird from a cats mouth a few years ago, and it never got infected. There was a wound from the cats teeth. I never did anything to it, and the bird recovered completely.

[zebrafinch13]

She has food on the floor of her cage and water, I think she does now know where the water is. She walked through it. I have got her some probiotics to prevent infection, in case she does get infected. I'm glad that an infection isn't inevitable!

I separated her from her cage-mate. He is her son, and very annoying. Every time I went anywhere near the cage she wouldn't freak out, but he would. He then would decide that the safest place to be was where she was, and would fly into her, knocking her on to the floor and sit where she was sitting. So, I put him in my second birdcage, where she can still see him but not get pushed around by him.

I guess that my cat's paws could have fit through the cage. But the cage is on a bookshelf, and it would have been a very awkward angle for him to reach.

It has been 53 hours since she was attacked.

[Fraza]

I would suggest putting mesh around the bottom half of cage so that the cat can’t ever get the birds in the future you can also keep a paper clip on the doors so that it can’t ipen them as I know dogs can open these just by licking them haha

Also you could move the perches away from the edges

Hope ur little soldier keeps going strong

[Flight Feathers]

Infection does not always happen. I took a bird from a cats mouth a few years ago, and it never got infected. There was a wound from the cats teeth. I never did anything to it, and the bird recovered completely.

Same here although not sure if the bird was really wounded... She was fine though.

[zebrafinch13]

She is defiantly looking better and has had no signs of infection so far.

its been six days since she was injured

[lovezebs]

zebrafinch13

So glad to hear that, .

[Sally]

zebrafinch13 That is good news. I would think she would be showing signs of illness by now if she had gotten an infection. She was lucky.

[zebrafinch13]

indeed, she's recovering nicely and I'm planning on reuniting her with her son tomorrow if she looks active enough to deal with his exuberance since she really seems to miss him.

its been a week since she was injured.

and the cat has been locked out with a latch on the door that I lock when I leave the room so he shouldn't ever bother Brownie again.

[Phoenix811]

this happened to me once, I now use bread twisty ties as extra protection to hold cage doors closed. Also, although your bird maybe scared of u treating the wounds, it can literally save her life. Good luck to u, I hope your bird recovers.

[sparrowsong98]

Glad she is recovering. If most of the pain is gone and she is flying around her quarantine cage a bit, then she will probably be fine to go in with her son. If she is still just sitting still/ just hopping around enough to get to food and water, though, I would let her heal up a bit more, because it sounds like her son likes to run into her, and than could cause her a lot of pain.