[Darth_Prophet]

I first must say I was against cutting, but I can no longer be so.

First let me describe my previous beliefs.

We had 4 Cockatiels and many canaries.

Our 4 tiels first came Sylvester; she was a saved bird about to be put down due to her blood feathers and hate of humans.

Then Came Snowwhite and Daisy.

Snowwhite was a very friendly lovable female who took to me right away we purchased her at a bird show, at 7 years old the breeder finale gave up on her in his attempts to get her to bread with other males . This being said it didn't take long for her to attempt to bread with me. Snowwhite was a flighty
Bird she spook easily and because of this we only took her out side on a harness, however we never clipped her wings.

Daisy is a young and some what deformed teil being small in stature and lacking any real flight abilities, however despite this fact even with his wings clipped 10 months ago when going to take him to the local petsmart on a windy day he took to flight as post before on this board we where very fortunate to get him back after 24 hours.

Delilah came to us from her previous own who after years of raising her I believe had come to the end of his wit with her attention demands.

She was of all my birds the one that most thought of her self as my wife.
Delilah demanded attention and kiss. Of all my birds Delilah was the one that I felt I could take anywhere any time no harness no clipping of her wings.
She loved me and we traveled much to include parks and bird shows.

After a long spree of working and not spending much time with her I decided to bring her to the office on a Saturday to spend some time with her.
It was a windy day and as I brought her out of the bird room she was some what spooked by the cats she flew down stairs in which I followed her. She being an exhalent flyer she landed right back on my shoulder.
I proceeded to gather my things and leave the house with her on my shoulder as soon as I stepped out on the porch the wind took right off my shoulder it was a horrible experience that even to this day haunts me.
She made several attempts to come back to me but every time she tried to slow down to land the wind would not only shot her 50+ feet straight up but further away from me we final lost sight of each other 12 hours later she has not been seen since.


That brings us to this morning. After finishing my sales meeting with my staff I get a call from my daughter, who proceeds to put my wife on the phone she is crying and I can barely make out anything she was saying, all I could understand was he saying you need to come home. What had happened is as she entered the bird room to do the daily water and food changes all the birds took to flight with snowwhite flying head first in to the window, she died immediately.


Folks as someone who foolishly believed in not cutting their birds feathers I can not any long make excuses for not.


If you love your Bird you WILL CLIP!
Or the will DIE!!!!!!!!


Later I will include pic's