I haven't posted much about this here on LJ, but the last week has been a hard one for Ember (my parrot) and I. Ember, being the hoss little toot that he is, chewed up a lead bead and ingested the shards. He got the pieces lodged in his ventriculus and developed a near-fatal case of lead poisoning. Luckily for me, I have the UGA Veterinary Teaching
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