owner, I am moving this thread to the Death & Dying forum. Muffins ***Nabi.
A little, bright yellow colored parakeet.
Name coming from a Korean word for butterfly.
One of the four parakeets Larry and I have had and loved, since November 2004.
She is gone.
This morning, October 10, 2007, on the way to our guest room to grab a winter jacket, I found her little body lying on the bottom of the cage.
We do not know why and how this has happened. Assuming that she was just a several month old chick when we got her four years ago, she couldn't be older than four, and parakeets are supposed to live about 15~18 years. So old age is not the cause. Also, Nabi was definitely the healthiest and the perkiest bird of the four. Did she die of some sort of accident, such as a sudden fall from the perch? I don't know.
I loved her. I genuinely enjoyed watching her doing little flying things and sort of pecking her friends. She was full of energy and personality. Larry says Nabi was the boss. Bada (Ocean) was her best pal, while Hana (White) and Namu (Tree) were rather younger newcomers. I am very sad, and I know it will never be the same watching the birds without Nabi in there.
Nabi, I love you, and please forgive me for any wrongs I might have done you without knowing. You will always be in my heart!!!