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[la_belle_laide]

Today I had to say goodbye to my beautiful little robin, Dana. She was with me for three years. She was not releasable because she had a neurological condition which gave her constant nystagmus, and she couldn't fly. She may have been blind in one eye, also. In the last week she'd started having seizures and I put her back on arnica, hoping it would do the same job it did when I first got her. But I came home from work today and found her seizuring. She stopped when I picked her up, and then she calmed down and then sat with me for a few minutes, before dying in my hand. I was glad that at least she didn't die alone.

Robins are awesomely special birds and she was one of a kind even among them – always sitting in her jade tree and clicking her beak when she was pissed off.

Aloha 'oe, my little Dana bird.

Comments

[skitty-kitty.livejournal.com]

Really very sorry. It's never easy letting them go. Glad she at least found you. *big hugs*

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Kris. I'm really glad I had her for as long as I did. :)

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry for the loss of Dana.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. She was such a little beeotch and I really loved her for it. :)

[dee1072.livejournal.com]

I'm really going to miss her. She was so pretty. She was just clicking at me this morning. So sorry she's gone.

[malenka-zeut.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got to be with her. So sorry she's gone though.