Bye-Bye Birdies...

Wow...do kid problems ever end? Our teenage daughter A....... pulled a great one yesterday. She went outside with our two cockatiels (whose wings have not been clipped in a long time and are able to fly) on her shoulders. They sat there calmly, until she started walking back in the house and made a dramatic "blowing-kiss" movement with her arm and startled the birds. They flew away and this happened just after dark. We tried to find them with flashlights, but to no avail. Do kids realize that we have rules for a reason? Do they not know that we had a rule to not take the birds outside for this very reason? Now the kids have lost two pets, cost us the $160 we spent on the birds, and maybe caused the death of the poor little cockatiels that maybe won' t survive in the wild. If we had another two cockatiels, it is likely she would take them outside tonight because she never seems to learn from her mistakes. :( Anyways, we are sad the little guys are gone...birds are more personable than you would think.