Mongo
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:15 pm
When the wife came home today she found our buddy Mongo dead on the bottom of the cage. Not really sure what happened. His body didn't show any obvious signs of sickness or trauma. We moved Raquel in with Jake on Saturday so we had to switch some other birds around as a result. Mongo was in with Jake so we put him in a cage with three kids that will be going to the pet store. Surprisingly there actually wasn't any problems with that arrangement. "Uncle" Mongo was even hanging out with the kids. He had been acting a little odd but we attributed it to the stress of being caught and moved to another cage. Mongo's dad would always go into a stupor whenever we had to catch him, and Mongo was acting the same way. Now I guess we're going to have to keep an eye on the kids and Jake since they all had shared a cage with Mongo in the past week.
In the almost five years that we've been raising Zebras, Mongo is the first male that we've lost. Gone through about 8 or 9 girls, but up until this point, no boys. Poor "Uncle Mongo" He had been paired with Zephia, one of the girls that we think got sick from ingesting mice feces. We were able to catch her in time, but she never fully recovered. She was always on some sort of antibiotic for the rest of her little life (about 2 years) Mongo never showed any symptoms during that period of time so I doubt his passing had anything to do with that.
We were hoping to find a honey for Mongo and give him a chance to finally be a daddy since Zephia was always too sick. Mongo was a very dutiful "husband" for Miss Zephia and took care of her up until she finally died around the beginning of the year. He will be missed
Rory and Sherry
In the almost five years that we've been raising Zebras, Mongo is the first male that we've lost. Gone through about 8 or 9 girls, but up until this point, no boys. Poor "Uncle Mongo" He had been paired with Zephia, one of the girls that we think got sick from ingesting mice feces. We were able to catch her in time, but she never fully recovered. She was always on some sort of antibiotic for the rest of her little life (about 2 years) Mongo never showed any symptoms during that period of time so I doubt his passing had anything to do with that.
We were hoping to find a honey for Mongo and give him a chance to finally be a daddy since Zephia was always too sick. Mongo was a very dutiful "husband" for Miss Zephia and took care of her up until she finally died around the beginning of the year. He will be missed
Rory and Sherry
