Looks like I picked the wrong month to quit sniffing glue: Three and a half weeks after my cat Sam died, I had to euthanize my parakeets Celery and Snowbird. Last Wednesday night I came home to find both of them in egg-laying distress. Celery had suffered a prolapsed oviduct, for which little can realistically be done, and Snowbird was eggbound, meaning an egg was stuck in her body that she couldn’t lay. Both problems are common to parakeets, apparently, and typically result from an overproduction of eggs, which overstresses their tiny bodies... and there’s not much that can be done about that, either.
I took this video last month. That’s Loreena McKennitt in the background, whom they’d never heard before, and loved:
It’s just me and Cassie the cat now. I’ve been ready for her to go for at least a year now, and ironically, she’s the only animal left with me. I’m still expecting her to go at any moment -- she’s very old and very frail -- but who knows? She may hang on for another five years.
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