Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sj1s+ From: sj1s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sherrianne M. Johnson) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Birds who walk on floors...(shouldn't cast pellets). Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 90 06:27:53 GMT References: <946@cfiprod.UUCP>, <25664@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: <25664@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Hi. I'm new to this bboard, and shouldn't cast stones, but... I'd just like to add a dampening note of caution about letting birds (or smaller species of birds, like parakeets and cockatiels) walk on the floor. I had a parakeet some years ago, and our family let him walk on the floor and do whatever he liked; he was a very sweet bird. However, one day he was puttering about on the floor, as usual, and my sister ran in the room and stepped on him. His back was broken and he died almost instantly. I suppose it wouldn't matter, if there were no young children around. I just loved him very much and hate to think of this tragedy happening to another bird lover. Sorry to add this morbid theme. Sherri Johnson sj1s@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University sher ********************* "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches." ---Robert Frost