Me & My Budgie - "Our Beautiful Angel"

Our Beautiful Angel
This is hard because I'm 33 and have a family, our second daughter died 2 1/2 days after being born, on 8/17/98... We were depressed for a long time. And a year later 8/17/99 we went to the mall to get away, and do something with our first daughter. Anyway, I asked my wife what I could get her... Jewelry..? Nope....... Crystal..?........Nope. So we walked into the pet store, and she just decided.. I want a bird.... Ok I said, that's good....
So she picked out the only blue budgie with a purple tinted tail.... We baught a new cage with starter food, and millet, gravel...etc... We had no clue what to do with this bird... So we just talked to it, and talked to it... She gave it the name of ANGEL... Thinking we got it on Jessica's birthday, our angel in heaven.... So months went by, and I became the one so attatched to Angel...
I got her finger trained, and we went out and bought her one of those gyms.... I saw it on the net, and this site for tips was great... It told me my bird wanted lots of attention, and companionship. That's what she got..... She was fun at christmas, and new years eve... Angel always wanted to be with me,. Like a dog she'd follow me from room to room, on the floor. She liked the dogs bed a lot, and was always trying to get in there, and Jake the dog aws always looking at Angel funny.. (No, the dog never killed her)... She used to like to stay on the gate to kitchen, then was a floor bird.... She began to snuggle with me while I was on my computer or watching TV. She would tweet for me when I was in the kitchen or other rooms, until I get out of the cage, then If I wanted to her to come, I'd tweet in her sound to get her to come to me. Once I was going back upstairs, and I called her, she came running, and I was on the second step up, I snapped my fingers, and opened my hand flat, and she flew up and landed in it...... put her on my shoulder and walked upstairs.
Angel loved us! And we all loved her.... Last week on friday, Jan 21,2000 me and my daughter came home, wife had to work, she wanted to watch little mermaid, so she went in my room, Angel flew off my shoulder and ran in there too, she liked LeAnn too.... LeAnn is 3 1/2... Well, I had to fix the toilet handle, and the Web banking.... I got busy.. LeAnn calls me on the intercom, and says "Angel's dead now." What a statement!! I found her on the bed under the blanket..... Like I said, I'm a 33 year old man, I cried for 3 hours or more!!!! I miss her!!!!!!! I have trouble forgiving my daughter sometimes, but I'm working on it..... We only had Angel for 5 months, it's very sad, and hard to deal with. She became my sidekick. We got another bird blue again, on saturday because I couldn't deal without a bird....! This one is Jenni. I have to start all over again.
Thank you for reading about my Angel... It means a lot to me to have her story here.....
- Submitted by twister2000@home.com