Story Bird: C.J.

After finishing a phone call, I chanced to notice C.J. had jammed his head thru the hole of a hanging acrylic square toy with spinners on each corner. I had to use pliers to unscrew the c-link from the cage ceiling to avoid him hanging himself, and even then the toy was jammed on his head. With a blanket ready for a vet ride to saw it off, he flopped to the floor and the toy popped off his head. The only saving grace of this episode is that he became my dearest friend after this, I guess I was his "savior". Lessons learned here are to make sure all toys are sized-appropriate and more important, to be ever vigilant with our birds.
Carol Lee

Birdsafe note:  The key thing to learn here is to make sure your bird doens't have any toys that they can get their head through.  While our birds are very intelligent, sometimes they panic when caught in a situation and they cannot "reason" their way out.