She was given to me when she was a month old by my Dad's friend and sadly, she's got quite a few problems. First of all, she has lutino baldness. That's not so bad, though I worry that she might injure it somehow because there's virtually no protection. Secondly, she has a slightly deformed leg which I suspect is spraddle leg. When she was younger, she would not use that leg and the muscle difference between the two thighs was pretty obvious.
I had to do some "home-made physiotherapy" for her by training her to grip tightly with her foot by putting her on my finger and waving it slowly. Her natural reflex was to grip really tightly when she felt she was losing her balance and slowly, she put on some muscle mass and began using that leg.
Then, when she was slightly more than two months old, I had to go overseas on a school trip. She didn't remember me when I came back nine days later! I was pretty devastated at that time, but I knew I couldn't blame her.
So to me, she's a really special little bird. I love her very much. (Even though it's mostly a one-sided thing) |