Potentially putting down a budgie for quality of life
I’m just questioning if I actually want to do that or not? I need some outside opinions :(
I have this budgie, he was born with a couple deformities: most obvious being his legs, he has something fused in there so they’re stuck at the angle in the photo & he walks around on his ankle (? Or whatever that part of their legs is) but other than that he can grip things and stand on thin perches / ropes.
He also had an injury which resulted in a dented keel bone before I got him :(
I’ve had two vets tell me to consider ending his life because his quality of life isn’t good but I just really don’t know
It’s probably selfish but I don’t want to ?
He’s literally never let his own problems bother him: despite everything he’s super chatty, sings, flirts with my other budgies and runs around and begs for millet and any other thing a normal happy budgie would do! There’s no way his quality of life is bad enough to end it even though he acts happy right?
I understand that eventually that will be for the best but I just feel like it’s way to early since he hasn’t been showing signs of his problems bothering him, he does most likely have some chronic pain and is on some painkillers but even before those he acted so normal and happy.
I get that birds hide illness/ pain well but I really don’t see how an unhappy bird could act and behave like him 😕 I wouldn’t be debating this if he showed any signs of being unhappy or his problems finally being too much for him
Idk I might just be selfish thinking all this, i also have another older budgie who is on palliative care because of a tumour so that might be affecting how I feel about this since it means I’ll have to be losing 2 of my budgies soon.
I think if I do decide to let him go early I’ll still wait until my other budgies on palliative care’s health declines so they can go together instead of being alone.
Might be in denial but I just need to hear other peoples opinions so I can do what’s best for him.