Story Bird:

I never imagined how much joy a bird could bring to our lives until we got PJ he was the cutest thing I had ever seen. Steve and I treated him as if he was our baby and in every way he was. Six months after we brought him home we decided to get another baby, we went to our friend and told her that we were interested in getting another ringneck and she told us that she was going to be getting a lutino in that just hatched and we jumped at the chance to have another bundle of joy brought into our home.

PJ and JOJO got along perfectly from day one and we went on with our lives as a big happy family. They did everything with us they even went to the movies once or twice. They were both well behaved, out going ringnecks who were always the center of attention. Both really loved to give kisses , in fact that was there favorite thing to do. Both were talkers among there favorite things to say were hello baby, i love you, and give me kiss. Steve took them to work almost every day where they were adored by every one that came in to his store.

For the next year we continued on with our lives and had never been happier. While eating dinner on January 12, 2002 our lives were struck with sorrow, Steve got up to get some food and looked over at the cage and found PJ laying on the bottom of the cage totally lifeless. Steve picked him up and handed him to me I cried as I prayed for God to please take care of my baby. I placed JOJO back in his cage as we ran out the door to rush PJ to the animal hospital. We cried the whole way there because we knew it was too late. As we turned onto the road where the animal hospital was located I looked down and realized that he was gone my poor baby died in my arms and there was nothing I could do. We took him in and they checked him and verified that he was gone. They brought him back to us wrapped in a towel and we went home. We started the calls to tell everyone the bad news that is when we realized that JOJO was sick too, again we rushed to the animal hospital this time we thought that we were in time. The doctor took JOJO from us and placed him in an oxygen tank. They wanted to keep her in the tank over night and allowed us to see her. She looked so weak, but better than when we brought her in. We asked of they had food for her for when they got her out of the tank and they told us no so Steve and I ran home to get some food for her, but by the time we made it back she too had died. This time we were not there to say good-bye. Again they brought her out in a towel and we returned home. The next day we had someone come out and check our house for carbon monoxide. The results came back from our basement(with the furnace running) was 64 ppm. Steve and I are lucky to be alive unfortunately PJ and JOJO were not as lucky.We knew that carbon monoxide was deadly but we didn't realize how deadly it is. I never imagined how much. - Sarah and Steve.