I really love birds and have had a few as pets, but I haven't had much luck with them. Someone gave me a pigeon once, but one of my cats went after him. The same person then gave us two love birds. They were so pretty, bright green and yellow. Nicole named them Lemon and Lime. We had them for a while with no trouble and then one evening, after I had covered their cage for the night, I heard this awful noise from inside. I hurriedly pulled off the cover and found one of them laying there bleeding. Apparently the other one had tried to peck it to death. It died shortly after. I never found out why. I didn't know which was the male and which was the female, so I'm not sure who killed who. And I thought love birds LOVED each other. The remaining bird lived about a year longer, then died also. This time I think it might have been my fault, but I'm not sure. I had bought a dowel to put through the bars of the cage for the bird to perch on, and neglected to take off the sticky UPC symbol. I guess he/she tried to chew it off with it's beak and that's what killed it. Supposedly. So I guess I won't be getting another pet bird any time soon.