回复：Three Birds

I once bought a few live blue crabs for dinner, but my son petted them in the kitchen sink for the whole afternoon until most of them died. I hesitated on whether I should cook and eat them or should I just throw them away. It ended up I steamed them and brought them to our dinner table. My son cried badly and asked me how could I have been so cold hearted. No one ate the crabs that evening, and we never buy or eat blue crabs again since then. After that, pets of any kind are strictly prohibited in our house.

I can imagine how you felt then and now about the first parakeet. Sometimes I really think having a religion is invaluable. Maybe to die that kind of a death was her destiny, and it was what she desired. She just went 涅磐了。