Lost Son - African Gray Congo

[Patty Rabbitt]

My son flew away on 7/28/09 at 2:30 in the afternoon. It has been 15 days today, and I hurt so bad I can't breathe. Please, if anyone has had success in finding their lost children, reply to me. I sure could use some positive energy.
He's only 4. Oh God.....

[Greycloud]

Where do you live?

[tracie]

Hi Patty,

I am sure there will be alot of people on here that can give you the best advice, but for now I would really be looking in the trees around your house, try to listen for him at dawn and dusk, put a cage outside or something that would perhaps draw him down. Have you seen or heard him at all since he flew away? I truly feel for you! I wish you all the best in finding this little grey angel!

[Patty Rabbitt]

Thank you Tracie. No, we have not heard ANYTHING from him since the day he left. We have done everything we can think of. I have posted flyers in a 10 mile radius, I have contacted every vet, humane society, rescue operation that I can find in the phone book. I have called the radio and television stations, and they were kind enough to put blurbs on the radio & on the tv web site. I have posted flyers in all the convienience stores near-by. My husband and dog hike every day in different areas calling and whistling. On weekends, they go further out. I usually drop them off in an area, they go into the woods and come out 7-10 miles from where they started, and then he calls me on the cell phone and tells me where they are, and I go pick them up in the car. I also have an ad in the paper, one on Craig's List.....posters in local grocery stores...ect. I talk to anyone that will listen, if I see a jogger or walker when I'm out looking, I stop and give them a flyer. I even put the flyers in sheet protectors and seal them to keep them dry. I still go around every couple of days and make sure they are still there and legible.
We have an 800 sq. foot deck on our house, and my husband built a huge outdoor enclosure for Syd, and that stays wide open with fresh food in it....just in case. I am just so sad I am having a hard time living a daily life. I am totally consumed. I don't think one single second has gone by in the last 16 days that I haven't thought about my baby. It hurts so bad it is hard to breathe. PLEASE.......to anyone reading this.....KEEP YOUR BIRDS WINGS CLIPPED. It is such a simple thing to do, and it could mean the difference between loving your babies and losing them. I am living proof. All of this could have been avoided if I wasn't so worried about Syd getting "mad" at me. He hated getting clipped, so I had to take him to the vet to have it done, because I didn't want to make him mad. I would gladly suffer his wrath for one more day with him.

[Lisa B]

near Pittsburgh Pa

[Barbara227]

I am going through the same thing. So many have said 'it's just a pet or it's just a bird' and they can't relate to what we are going through. I am also unable to function, eat, sleep, I doze and wake up all night and panic and grief sets in again and I lay away forever, crying...I feel the same way, like I can't breathe.......