tears are streaming down my face

Goosemaster

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I was quite happy as I entered my house. I had recieved the CD player in the mail that I was giving some unles of mine as a present. My mom's car was outside and I thought she was still here so I got pissed after 20minutes of yelling for her to wake up (i thought she missed work or something). My dad called and told me that she had been planning a trip to Canada to see her mom and had left..none of this was told to me...not really bad or anything...it just through off my guard for what about to be told to me.

I had lupita for about 6-8years. She was my best friend, however having a cockateil as a friend may be. I taught her to sing. Every mornign she would hell her tail off if I didn't take her upstairs and take ashower with her. I would put her on the shower-curtain bar and she would sing endlessly amidst the steam as I took a shower. The I would bring her downstairs, and she would sing while I got dreseed.

In the evening she would always be glad I got home an start whistling at me and be quite talkative. I taught her to almsot talk and she would go on endlessly while I watched TV or was on the internet.

Food and lupita provided loads of laughs. Whenever I was eating she would manage to find her way to me and beg for food. There is nothing funnier than a bird munching on a dorrito twice her sized, and hse aways made me laugh. SHe even got picky too. I would give her only dorritos and no bread, and she would get pissed and yell at me until I gave her bread and then water.....heh...I guess I taught her to be demanding and crave attention.

She was a beautiful ittle bird. she used to love to sing, to chase me around likea dog, up flights or stairs and such. Hell, I had taken her outside many times and she never left my side.


Fast foward to today. My dad tells me he has bad news. No one tells me that they have bad news for me...they jsut spit it out. They know better. The only time anyoe tells me they have bad news is when someone has died. My mom told me she had bad news when my best friend in elem. school was murdered and when my grandmother died of alzherimers.

Today my step dad told me that he had badnews. He accidentally killed my bird. he said that it was an accident and that he had accidentally sat on her when he came from work (250+lb) and that once he realized what happened she ws already dead. I guess it was quick and hopefully not to painfull, but I told him that I wasn;'t mad and just sad....


regardless of what you lose, you end up losing apart of yourself as you have invested time and effort into the relationship.

she would have been on my shoulder as i wrote this....


<--in tears.....my day is ruined...dammnit..everyone always dies on me at the worst time

I'll psot a video of her singing if someone wants to host



I got a host.....here is the video...Truely, there was not a song more fitting for her to sing to , this, the only time she was on camera
 

AlStan1981

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sorry to hear that :(

losing a pet is always hard. it will get better in time. i lost my dog of 14 years this past summer, a few days before my last college final ever. it was very hard to concentrate and study for it. i still pray some nights just to pray that my dog is okay now whereever he is, and that i hope to see him again some day down the road.

 

PanzerIV

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Sorry to hear you lost a close family pet like that. I am sure your dad feels awful too.
 

FFactory0x

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wow. I say your title and thought thiswas gonna be a hilarious story. Sorry bud



Did he crush it or suffocate it?
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: AlStan1981
sorry to hear that :(

losing a pet is always hard. it will get better in time. i lost my dog of 14 years this past summer, a few days before my last college final ever. it was very hard to concentrate and study for it. i still pray some nights just to pray that my dog is okay now whereever he is, and that i hope to see him again some day down the road.

the question is what do i do now..the silence is so painfull..the damn bird used to be loud as hell because she craved attention and I used to give it to her..now I am just really sad and quiet...I don;t sepnd a lot of time at home mind you ( I just got back from class) but the silence is gonna be painful as hell:(

new bird might jsut make it worse....
 

Crucial

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Originally posted by: FFactory0x
wow. I say your title and thought thiswas gonna be a hilarious story. Sorry bud



Did he crush it or suffocate it?

wtf? :roll::disgust:
 

Cristatus

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a similar incident happened to me...just before the summer

i lost my puppy (4 months old) to a garage door...

this was just after my exams, but just before my prom, and i was just so pissed....i dno why, tho it was nobody's fault really, i just felt so bad for him...
 

AlStan1981

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: AlStan1981
sorry to hear that :(

losing a pet is always hard. it will get better in time. i lost my dog of 14 years this past summer, a few days before my last college final ever. it was very hard to concentrate and study for it. i still pray some nights just to pray that my dog is okay now whereever he is, and that i hope to see him again some day down the road.

the question is what do i do now..the silence is so painfull..the damn bird used to be loud as hell because she craved attention and I used to give it to her..now I am just really sad and quiet...I don;t sepnd a lot of time at home mind you ( I just got back from class) but the silence is gonna be painful as hell:(

new bird might jsut make it worse....

yea its going to take a while to get used to. every time i would come in my house, and if no one was home, my dog would be sleeping under this table right near the door. and when i walked in he would wake up and see me, and come over to me. so when i came home, i wouldn't see him or hear his collar and stuff. it really was sad for about 2 weeks coming home to this.

however, to make a long story short, like a month after this happened my brother found a stray dog in our neighborhood that looked 99% like our dog. it was kind of scary. we kept it for about 2 weeks and no one put up signs or anything. it didnt have a collar on either. so we decided to keep it. my mom took it to the vet, and turns out it was 6 weeks old! keep in mind, this was EXACTLY 6 weeks after our other dog died. so this was very ironic ...

but its been a while now, and i still think about my old dog all the time. but knowing he's in peace now than the way he was suffering the past 2 days he was alive in our house, i know he's better off. it was actually very painful to see my dog the last 2 days he was alive. on the day we put him down, i went to work and called my mom and was like 'mom, please ... i don't want to see him when i get home from work.'
 

Pliablemoose

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:(

Take a while to grieve &amp; find another bird.

I used to work in a nursing home that had a Cockatiel, I took care of it, he'd sit on my shoulder while I worked, the patients loved him.
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: FFactory0x
wow. I say your title and thought thiswas gonna be a hilarious story. Sorry bud



Did he crush it or suffocate it?

Birds have rather weak necks. :(
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: FFactory0x
wow. I say your title and thought thiswas gonna be a hilarious story. Sorry bud



Did he crush it or suffocate it?

Birds have rather weak necks. :(

he said it was pretty instant..you could easily understand why I told him to stop when he started going into how he put it in a trashbag..I jsut told him to shut up; that I wasn;t amd at him but all this wasn;t going to make me feel better. I suppose I'll ask him one day
 

lokiju

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The worst I ever cried from death was when the family cat of 15 years had to be put asleep, it tore me up so bad, even to this day if I think of him I still miss him like crazy and know I'll never have a cat that was as cool and unique as him.

I'm sorry for your loss, best advice is to not rush into getting another bird to replace that void but rather give yourself time to heal.
 

sygyzy

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I want to see a video of the bird singing please. And I am sorry for your loss.
 

Ausm

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Sorry to hear that :( I just lost my Cat he was a big part of our family so I feel your pain :( People who are not animal lovers miss out on a big part of life.

Good Luck,

Ausm