This is my "I am a truly bad Parront" thread. But first of all, relax. No one got hurt, thank goodness, but no thanks to me. Kind of a long story, but bear with me. The day before yesterday, my roommate decided to wash and wax the kitchen floor. The kitchen and living room are all one big room, and the fids are in the living room. Later in the afternoon, I had Quito and Tausi out for their daily out of cage and treat time as usual. At the usual time, I covered everyone up and put them to bed. About 5 minutes later, Tausi had a whale of a panic. I heard him screaming and flopping around in his cage, like a "night-fright", which he has never had a problem with. I went running out to see what the problem was, opened the cover on the front of his cage, and there he was huddled in the corner trembling, with that "I'm scared, I don't know you, what the heck is going on" look. You know the one. I spent several minutes with him, trying to calm him down. Looked all through his cage, but couldn't see any reason. Seemed like he was inconsolable, and when I tried to cover the front of the cage again, he panicked again. Then I happened to look up, and it finally registered. The ceiling fan was still going!! Then it really hit me. I had Quito and Tausi both out of the cage, and Quito flies all over the house. I shut the fan off, and had to go sit for a minute, with scenes of what could have happened running through my head. How many times have I preached disabling any ceiling fans if you have birds? How could I have had them out and not noticed that the fan was going? How was Quito savvy enough to avoid the fan? I remembered Quito and Tausi acting a little bit "off" somehow when I'd had them out, why didn't I tumble to it then? How could I be so stupid?

Anyway, evidently the cause for Tausi's panic was the fan moving enough air to make the sheet covering his cage flutter a bit. After the fan was off, he settled down and slept through the night just fine. I slept ok too, but it took a while longer to get there.

Parrots are very observant creatures and are so smart. You are very lucky that nothing happened while that fan was on. Atleast you learned a lesson here I hope

You lucky nothing happened. Alls well.

Don't Worry, Nate, we all make mistakes! Read my poast "Dogs and Birds" and see what happened there. The fan in the BR is of great use when it's hot and such, but it is always off.

Nate so glad to read everyone was alright. Thanks for the reminder of how careful we need to be.

They are amazing, aren't they? I had an incident the other night that took me a while to figure out. I had inadvertently forgot to close the window for the night before pulling the black out shade. The shade was moving ever so slightly, I never saw it, but Kady did and refused to go in his cage. I looked at the surroundings through his eyes to see if I could spot what was causing him alarm and finally spotted my error.

All was forgiven with a few treats and extra Mommy time.

Thank goodness nobody was hurt. I've had one or 2 close calls like that with Dakota. It's horrible to think about what could have happened in cases like this. At least now you'll be on guard!

Thank goodness no one was hurt! I'm sure every single one of us can tell a "bad parront" story.

Amazing how forgiving they are, isn't it? Funny, that antidote works the same in my household too!! LOL

Nate -- thanks for the reminder about celing fans. This is the time of year that we all could use that reminder! And btw, so glad you figured out what was bothering Tausi....there have been times when I have not been so lucky!

It was a heck of a wake-up call for me, I can tell you that. The fan has a wall switch that is now temporarily duct-taped in the off position.

I think that is very true! Nate don't beat yourself up over it, we all make mistakes. Just thank God that everyone was okay!