Kan-chan stays still alive.
Sunday, January 14. 2019
My loving crow, Kan-chan, became ill at the end of last month. She has been in trouble with moving his body. She seems to be just like a patient suffering from cerebral infarction. It is difficult for her to peck food accurately although her pinpoint pecking used to be a great threat to me when I put the food tray before her in the cage.
She became so weak that she didn’t cry at all. I transferred her to my warm room from the chilly entrance where she stayed for more than nine years since she came to my house.
I thought she would not be able to welcome the New Year when I found her illness. However, she began eating little by little in the warm room. Although she cannot move smoothly and she always puts her head down, she is now able to cry. She sometimes cries responding to my voice even in class. I teach English in the same room as she is staying now.
Kan-chan was authorized to be taken care of in my house by the Kanagawa-ken Conservation of Wildlife and Natural Environment Center in 2009. Since then she had been in the entrance of my house as a watch bird. She would cry when somebody was approaching to the house. Considering her status quo, I don’t think that she may live long. I have decided to spend daily life with her in my room and to attend her deathbed.
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