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due to me being over work and mentally stressed out i for got to turn off a pot of corn before i left for work and it smoked up the house and my poor birds (both the finches and the budgies ) breath in the smoke and died. the worst part is it felt like they waited for me to come home to die. i was about to eat a piece of cake and heard a strange noise from the cage and when i look i didn't see the female. so i walked over to the cage to find her layed out on the bottom of the cage. the male was still sitting on the perch but soon fell gasping for air. when i dawned on me they had breath the smoke i told my son to check the budgies. he said they were ok so i went to take a look and they were on the bottom of the cage gasping too. i took them out the cage and held them in front of the air cleaning to help them get air but after a while they stop breathing also green lantern in my sons hands and Nitro in my hands.

my asked to bury them. so i took a small shipping box and he put them all in there and i helped him make a cross out of pop sticks funny how i remembered exactly when i got all the birds. i wrote it on the sticks. he said he would miss the birds in him room. and i know i will my living alarm clocks.

i feels so bad

Oh my goodness, sorry for your loss. I am so careful with my finches because im afraid anything we do will kill them. when i powder the carpets i put them outside and vacuum till the smell fades and when we barbecue i keep all the windows closed n if we cook and i see any smoke or smell anything burning i put them outside. always telling my friends to make sure hey check with me befoe the spray any cleaners or air freshner to put the finches outside before they do so.

Moe Moe2......what an awful experience you went through.....my heart goes out to you!

It was an unfortunate mistake but don't blame yourself too harshly. If you come away from this with a better knowledge of being more bird safe it will be a lesson well learned.

Just the fact you shared your mistake with us is very responsible and mature of you....the rest of us can take note to always be vigilant and bird safe with our own birds.

I hope you are feeling a bit better today.