omg! okay when i was little i had this bird named Bethoven and anyways i was at the neighbors one day and when i came back he was at the bottom of the cage dead! my mom told me that he jest fell off the perch but NO! thats not what really happened....here is the REAL story....i went to the neighbors and my mom was cleaning the house and she was taking care of all of the pots and pans and she had a big black cast iron pan on top of the stack and we would let bethoven out of his cage loose and he would jest walk around the house but anyways he was walking around the kitchen where my mom was with the stac of dishes and she dropped the big heavy cast iron pan and she thought that it would jest make a cup over bethoven but NO! it landed smack flat down on him and squashed him! and when i came back i looked in the cage and he was at the bottom all bloody! MY MOM PICKED HIM UP AND THREW HIM BACK IN THE CAGE! and how I found out…well, I brought it up one day and my mom told me the real story and I jest started laughing and then I felt really bad but, hell, its still funny! Hahaha!