Quote Originally Posted by michael View Post
You mean you've never heard of MBS?..................Well, its MULTIPLE BIRD SYNDROME!!! ..........

From my understanding there is really NO cure as we know of, just constant remedial therapy. Terrible I tell you....just terrible....

There probably is no cure but I think there is a form of prevention--livie in a no pets apartment. And poverty helps. My current apartment doesn't allow pets but I got a clause in my lease that I could have my Lovie. Lucky for me the owner decided she liked me before she knew about the bird & I said if Bo didn't come, I didn't come. I hid the canary when they decided to do an inspection when a rental management company took over. Didn't want to push my luck. I really don't know how y'all afford your flocks. I've spent over $2000 at the vet's in the past 3 months! Of course Buddy hasn't always been that expensive but there is her annual check up & boarding at the vet's whenever I leave town & can't take her with me. I won't trust her to anyone's care but aviatrician. They are so good to her. When I thanked the vet for taking such good care of my baby when I had to leave her for 2 weeks--the longest we have ever been apart--he said. "That's a special bird. But you almost lost her." I looked horrified until he added, "Every time I looked at my kennel keeper she had that ##@!!# bird on her shoulder. I finally had to tell her to put the bird back and get to work!" She really is a special bird

I guess you could say I have SMBS--Sequential Multiple Bird Syndrome. The only way I can stop crying when I lose a fid is to get another ASAP!